Yet another update... Due to a few more snafus, our closing date has been moved AGAIN, this time not until Dec. 20th at the latest.. As they say, patience is a virtue.
I'm not sure if it's the winter season (although Chicago seems to be experiencing some record "warm" temps for December) or if this rainy weekend that's leaving me wanting for some bright sunshine, but yellow seems to be the color du jour in my current paint palette and I'm itching to make everything merry and bright!
A few weeks ago, Steve and I did a little picking after we spotted 2 cute little wooden chairs in our neighbor's curb. Now we're by no means pros or experienced pickers like these guys on a certain popular show on the history channel, but we can recognize potential in nice solid wood furniture left on the curb that just needed a little love. From the looks of it, it mostly needed cleaning, sanding and some paint! So on to the first yellow makeover.
We desconstructed our curb finds to make them easier for prepping. A lot of sanding and deep cleaning and scrubbing, and sanding some more, and these babies were ready to be put back together. We just needed to make sure that they were sturdy and that even goldilocks couldn't break this chair. 
So we made sure to add some strong industrial adhesive. We wanted something strong that dried clear, so we used Loctite Power Grab Clear Moulding & Paneling Construction Adhesive, before drilling the screws back in tight.
Now that we had our cute little chairs sanded and ready for paint, I primed with some Valspar primer paint, and painted the chairs a bright yellow using Rustoleum's Painter's Touch Ultra Cover paint in Sun Yellow with a Gloss finish. We then topped it off with a Clear Gloss, just to keep it extra shiny!
You'll have to pardon the hoarders-like mess behind the 2 yellow chair photo, our garage is a clear candidate for the show as of lately with all of our packed boxes and stuff ready for the move.
In the end, the chairs add a little bit of sun-shiny yellow to this otherwise grey day. Even Olive (rocking a skater girl hat (Steve's), and her monkey jammies) is all smiles while lounging in her new chair.
And like I mentioned earlier, that was just the first yellow makeover. We made over our critter coat hooks that we got from the Land of Nod outlet back in October (but posted in November). The original red was a bit chipped and damaged anyways, but a nice bright coat of yellow fixes it right up. Now, they're happy critters! (and they totally go with our ceramic yellow rooster find)
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