This is the first of what we hope will be many posts titled Retro Rehab, a series showing you some of the great finds we've come across at flea markets and tag sales and have given them a second life by refurbishing, refinishing, or repurposing them! To start out, we're going to look at a set of aqua Mid-Century Modern chairs we happened upon at a tag sale two weeks ago:
Here you can see the chairs have great seats and backs, but the copper structure really needed some work.
Yikes!
After a bit of work with the drill, we got the chairs apart and simply masked the wonderful aqua covers using tape and newspaper. After applying a bit of metallic copper spray paint, they look as good as new!
Once the pieces were dried, there was some minor re-assembly required and then they were ready to be reintroduced back into the world!
The first chair is being utilized as much-needed seating near our front door.
The other is perhaps the most important seat in the house: our new piano bench!
Well, we hope you enjoyed our first installment of Retro Rehab (Herr Beethoven approves, and he is not an easy critic to please!) Who knows, maybe it'll be just the thing to inspire you finally finish that retro restoration project you've been putting aside all these years!
Salut!
The Vintage Chanteuse
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