Wow, it *does* work in real life

Ok, I can watch HGTV with the best of them, but the low cost decorating shows kind of make me crazy. Sure, just a thousand bucks for materials -- but free labor from people who have the right tools AND the time to do the projects!

I have to say, though, that I was pretty happy with the results of my improvement project today. I had 4 iron chairs that looked like this:

These chairs were in my grandmother's house in the late 60s and early 70s. When she died in 1976, my mom ended up with them. They were in several houses, then relegated to the back porch & eventually stowed in my parents garage. Sometime around 1999, they ended up in the basement of my old house, and in 2004 they moved into the detached garage behind my current house.

But, with a babysitter for the kids and 3 cans of spray paint, my friend and I turned them into this:

They even look decent with the old green seats:

Now my friend has chairs for her new apartment, and I am reclaiming space in the garage - Yea!