Dining Room Chairs

Are driving me CRAZY!!! I had no problem building the first 3 chairs before our anniversary back in April but the last 3 chair gave me tons of issues (a lot of that was my fault because I’d get so focused on one thing I wouldn’t notice something else). I finally got them to the point I was ready to stain and started on the first chair and the stain looks terrible! It’s SUPER blotchy. GAH! Now I need to sand all of them again. It’s so hard to get into the corners with the sander and that’s where it looks the worst. So frustrating. I keep putting off working on them because it’s been so hot that  if I start sanding I’m almost instantly covered in a sweat/dust paste. Yuck. I have a fan in the garage but I wish I had some kind of air conditioner in there! When a project gets this frustrating I really wish N was here to help me with it. I know we would have been done by now with both of us working. Deployments suck.

I’m ready to start on a new project that I can paint instead of stain! I want to build a storage bed to put in the extra bedroom so I can take the huge metal shelf out of there and put that in the garage. Most of my focus for this next year is having the house completely staged and ready to sale when N gets back from the deployment. I want the extra room to look awesome and a huge metal shelf kind of takes away from the size of the room! Plus having a bed with built in storage will be great no matter where we move, you can always use extra storage space! I’m looking forward to starting that soon. Still need to get these chairs done.

Anyone know a good place to buy foam cushioning? I really need to get some for the chair seats. I do have the fabric picked out so that’s the last step. Maybe by the time the boy comes home for R&R I’ll have them done. Or maybe not. I guess we’ll see.