Merry Christmas-Apartment Dining Reveal

Merry Christmas!

I'm back to share with you my Christmas post.

Remember how I told you we severely downsized to an apartment? 

Well I've been unpacking and trying to find all my things that are packed up in boxes. 

I finally found my fabric that I bought a couple of years ago to re do my chairs!

So I set out to recover my chairs and paint my table in one weekend. 

Pretty agressive of me don't you think?

Well what I failed to remember not to forget was the 

location of our STAPLE GUN.

Facebook to the rescue. My daughter's MIL had an electric one I borrowed. Made things a lot easier to staple. 

Now, re-covering chairs may seem like a simple task and well it is-until you actually start to do it. 

There are millions of staples to remove. 

First I took them off and used that fabric as templates for my new fabric. My mom helped me cut.

Then I had to figure out how to staple it on so the staples wouldn't show on the chairs. Some of those pieces were extra hard. I mean, the backs of the chairs are solid and a real challenge to staple through. But I did it! Here in pictures is the story:

                      Cushions removed

                   I had to fold over and staple so the other staples wouldn't show. This is covered up by the wood back on the chair.

                         Stapling the corners-fold and pull taut.

         Tool I used to remove the staples. You can get it at Home Depot or Joann.

                          One down.....

I also painted my black table white in one evening. I painted it with Fusion brand Mineral Paint in Casement.

After I let it dry over night, I applied two coats of water based poly letting them dry for about 6 hours in between.

And here's the result.

And after all that 

I was finally ready to decorate our humble abode for Christmas Eve dinner:

The glittered trees were made by me by simply cutting out shapes with my Cricut Explore and hot gluing it to a cone shape made out of poster board. 

The table runner is some black bulletin board paper I had. I simply wrote on it with my metallic marker.

I am yet to finish decorating on top of that shelf that we hung over the table. I'll post on that later. 

But in the meantime, we had a wonderful Christmas Eve with my little family. 

And I love that my little family could enjoy a pretty space to eat. 

xoxo 

Patty