Sanding Chairs!

On Friday, I began collecting supplies to upgrade our new dining chairs. I got awesome fabric, some sand paper, primer, paint, and a polyurethane stain to go over all of it. We love the fabric, so I spent all of Friday removing the old fabric and letting the cushions air out. (Which they are still doing, they were really smelly from being in a barn). I also went over the chairs with the 120 grit sand paper that I bought. It went really well on the first chair, and then got progressively worse. Mind you I haven't sanded anything since middle school shop class so I didn't really know what I was doing or what "sanded" chairs should look like. I knew that I had to remove the varnish that was on the chairs to be able to paint them again.

It didn't really work. The sand paper was shot after one chair and didn't do much for the other 4. I bought more sand paper, and a great hand tool that fits the sand paper and was back to sanding today. It's a terrible job! It was pushing 90 degrees outside and I was in the garage sanding away. Each chair really needed it's own piece of sand paper, and I think I finally got it to the point where they are ready for the primer! Finally! Painting is actually something I'm good at and very familiar with (thanks Dad!). Unfortunately, it's 90+ degrees and unbelievably humid outside, so that means no painting. Hoping for some cool weather so that I can paint these chairs.