Stool Mini-Makeover for My Client

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So I'm still a little confused about how long a post has to be.  Plus I am really mad that I didn't take more meticulous pictures during past DIY projects.  That being said, I am grateful that I have as many before/after pictures as I do.  Take for instance this quick re-do...  I mentioned before that I am a Professional Organizer, well I had this client last year, one of my most favorite ever, and she was having a hard time getting rid of stuff.  Sound familiar?  Well this woman was 83 years old!  She was {and still is} awesome and I was totally comfortable telling her, "You're crazy!  When are you ever going to need _____!?"  She'd tell me to go stuff it.  It was great.  Anyway....  She had this ugly old stool and I knew she didn't want to get rid of it, but she knew it was not worth keeping.  So I offered to fix it up for her {free of charge}!

This was the stool when I got it home.  I made sure my client was okay with me painting it and changing the fabric.  What is that on there anyway?  Turns out it was a shirt!  Which made me laugh and I could totally appreciate.

I have a cabinet full of random fabric {and no I don't sew very often} and a garage full of random paint, so I was ready to get to work.  I also told myself I was going to get it done that night and I ACTUALLY DID.  It shocked my husband almost as much as it shocked me!

First thing I did was CLEAN the crap out the thing.  Then I took off the old fabric which had been nailed on.  When I got both layers of the previous fabric off I realized this "stool" was actually once a chair.  That explains the weird tilt to the top.  The back legs were taller that the front.  

So I tried out one of my random pieces of fabric and must have decided at that point that the paint color was a good enough match, and once I had given it a good cleaning it didn't really need new paint anyway.  Why repaint it only to give it a weathered look, when I already had a weathered look.  I figured my client would be happy with me keeping it as close to its current state {and frankly I was probably just being lazy}.

This is what it looked like after

It was so simple, but my client was thrilled!



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