DIY: farm table seating.

while we were "theory-crafting" (as daniel likes to call it) about our table, we went back and forth a lot about our seating options.

we knew we wanted a bench on at least one side, and two fabric chairs for the ends of the table. i couldn't decide if i wanted to do 2 benches or have chairs on the other side. i thought 3 different seating options might be a little much, but i'm glad we decided to go with it. i think it gives the room a little more character & height.

we found these chairs at the nashville flea market for $15 a piece. we bought 4 and thankfully we only needed 3 because we had a flying chair incident on the interstate.... no worries, daniel sacrificed himself to recover the chair and now it is used around the campfire :)

i sanded the chairs & used a tact cloth to remove the residue. i spray painted them with valspar primer & then valspar gray spray paint from lowe's. i used 2 cans of primer between the 3 chairs, and 1 can of gray per chair.

{i love the detail on the back of the chairs}

{after the primer}

 {finished product}

next up we purchased two dove gray tufted lydia dining chairs from world market. i had my eyes on these for awhile, and when we went to world market after the flea market, they were on sale that day for 15% off! there were also only two gray chairs left, so we took that as a sign and came home with these beauties. this was by far our biggest splurge of our table project.

and last but not least, about 2 months later, we finally built the bench. we used the same blogger's plan for the bench that we used for the table - click here. we didn't follow this exactly - just went with the same general design we used for the table. we actually measured a few things wrong and had to do a little "re-do" half way through the project. thankfully, we both just laughed. 

 

i was really worried about getting the stain the same color, but i only did 1 coat of stain & poly and it turned out great. 

last but certainly not least, we replaced the god-awful light that was in there (so bad i don't even have pictures) with this beautiful (and CHEAP!) pendant lamp from ikea. and the rug came from rugsusa.com sometime last year - it came over from my apartment when i finally moved all my stuff in. 

drumroll please... our dining room/eat-in kitchen!