This weekend, we made a pilgrimage to IKEA to pick up some chairs for our kitchen table, in an effort to fool my father into believing that I am an adult when he comes to visit later this month. I feel like this fooling is more likely to happen with wood chairs at the table, as opposed to the outdoor plastic chairs and/or folding chairs we’ve been using. But since I’m cheapthifty, we got the bargain basement chairs and I’ve been painting them a vibrant lime color to further punch up the kitchen–after all, it’s the first thing that anyone sees when they walk into the house and right now it’s rather blah. I’m trying to have my kitchen makeover mostly complete by the time we have guests over on Saturday but that may be a pipe dream. Then again, it is keeping me working at a fever pitch, and I enjoy having a number of projects upon which to exert my mental energy, so I may get more accomplished than I would have ever believed!

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I also intend to make some cushions for these chairs and the orange chairs I refinished last month, but I’m still deciding on fabric. Spoonflower has a ton of amazing prints and I can even design my own fabric, the possibilities of which may make my head explode. I’ve got a swatch of Squids in space! on order, and I’m thinking it may be just the thing to tie the room together.