Should I Paint These Chairs?

To paint or not to paint. That is the question.

No seriously- that's the question. I'm asking you to vote. (Take my poll!)

I love the look of dining sets that are not sets... nameen? Or no, maybe you don't know what I mean. Let me enlighten you.

Similar to pickles and peanut butter, mixing patterns, chihuahuas and sombreros....... there are some things that don't quite match, but together make a sweet, sweet love child.

Take a look at what I mean:

(from the brick house)



(from apartment therapy)



(from modern nests)

(from doorsixteen)

Let's take a look at my dining set:

(The cat loves photos!)

I just think it's all a bit boring and doesn't have much style or color or pizazz! (ha. I said "pizazz". Can you really type that word without including an exclamation point? No. The answer is, you cannot.)

I've been thinking about changing the chairs for months. I was torn though. I like the chairs. I like the texture. I like the comfort. I like that I can use them in my studio and other parts of the house.



So then I thought about changing the table. But with a different table, would the chairs feel out of place. And would changing the chairs make the table out of place? I wouldn't want my dining room furniture to laugh and call him names. Wait. That's Rudolph, not my chairs. GAH! Life is so hard.

But it just came to me the other day- why not paint the chairs I've got? Duh. Or maybe dumb? (See what I did there?)

Ideally I would have six or eight authentic vintage Eames chairs just laying around and could use them. Or hell, while we're wishin' over here why not $1000 to buy any chairs of my choice. Or $3000? (I'd probably still choose the Eames chairs.)

But I don't have $3000. Or Eames chairs. Or $1000. Or $50 for that matter.

What I do have is six existing chairs that are nice, but a little too matchy-matchy for my taste.

So I leave you with the question, should I paint these chairs?

Should I paint these chairs?
	No! Are you fucking crazy?! These chairs are awesome the way they are!
	Yes! Get painting!
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I know what you're thinking. But Heather, what color? Slow your roll, folks! That's for another post.

Yard wants

I had off work today and couldn't stop reading The Brick House blog.

It got me thinking about all of the things I want for our yard. Both front and back.

Remember this little landscaping update I made this spring? Well. I'm not really into it anymore.

That brings me to want number one. Gravel.

I want a place to sit in the front of the house like the rest of the neighbors. I want gravel. Tiago wants concrete. Whatever. Both would be great. (Though, I personally think gravel would be cheaper and faster, but also give us some nice texture in the front of the house.)

And I also want gravel in the back. Here's a mock up I made on floorplanner.com.


Want number two? Well, we have this wee little hammock currently in the back, but it's just not working for me. I want this one...




Know what else I want? Some nice ornamental grass. All over the perimeter of the back and maybe some in the front too. I love me some ornamental grass.

(Source)

Want number four is butterfly chairs. I used to have some years ago but I sold them when I left south philly.

(Photo and weird frame courtesy of amazon.com)

There are so many many many other wants that I have for the exterior spaces here at Casa 301, but the last one that really stands out for me is a fence in the back. I'll be honest. Not only does it look like shit back there, but I hate the neighbors behind us. They're rude, crazy and messy (well, their yard aesthetic is messy). I want a nice modern cedar fence that blocks all of their crazy landscaping and overgrown weeds from view. Plus I kind of want to annoy them.

Here's the kind of fence I would really like.

(Source)

Hmmmm. Big dreamy sigh.