Dining suite saga - Last chapter

Remember a while back when I posted that I had disassembled my dining area chairs to paint them and recover the seats.  Well here is the before and after of this project.  The tapestry on the seats now was a valance that I got at a thrift store.  I had to pick out a lot of stitching and get it cleaned but I love it..

My dining "area" furniture  (I don't have a proper dining room) has a long complicated back history of its own and it starts with the  chairs which I purchased in 1977 and at that time I had a long narrow table.

A year  later I purchased this sideboard.  It had long legs and was about waist high.  I didn't buy it to use in the dining room.  It was in the basement family room and I bought it because it was long and narrow and perfect base for a Victorian doll house I was building.  It is a genuine antique and I got it cheap because one drawer does not close properly. It was brown.

In 1979 I found this upper part of a china cabinet at a "ding and dent" furniture store and it was really cheap because the door was slightly warped and didn't close properly. It was brown also but a different brown than the sideboard.

So I cut the legs off the sideboard so the top would fit on it and I painted both pieces the same color.


Now a base with a drawer that didn't close properly and a top that had a door that didn't close properly seemed to me to be a match made in heaven.


Then we moved to Spokane and had no proper dining room and the long narrow table just didn't fit and I found this table at the goodwill.  It was all brown so I painted the top to match the china cabinet and left the base brown to match the chairs. And I moved the long narrow table out to the gazebo.

Besides painting the top to match the china cabinet I added roses to both pieces to seal the union.


Now the latest and last  chapter in this saga is the painting and recovering of  the chairs from 1977 and here it is all together.  Some folks just go out and buy a dining suite but mine has taken over 40 years to evolve.