{"id":5505,"date":"2011-08-09T05:14:58","date_gmt":"2011-08-09T05:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mellzah.com\/?p=5505"},"modified":"2011-08-09T05:14:58","modified_gmt":"2011-08-09T05:14:58","slug":"hej-ivar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mellzah.com\/index.php\/hej-ivar\/","title":{"rendered":"Hej Ivar!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;ve been using. But since I&#8217;m <strike>cheap<\/strike>thifty, we got the bargain basement chairs and I&#8217;ve been painting them a vibrant lime color to further punch up the kitchen&#8211;after all, it&#8217;s the first thing that anyone sees when they walk into the house and right now it&#8217;s rather blah.  I&#8217;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!<\/p>\n<p>Before:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mellzah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/ivar-chair__20329_PE105494_S4.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>After:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mellzah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/chair.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>I also intend to make some cushions for these chairs and the orange chairs I refinished last month, but I&#8217;m still deciding on fabric. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spoonflower.com\/\">Spoonflower<\/a> has a ton of amazing prints and I can even design my <em>own<\/em> fabric, the possibilities of which may make my head explode. I&#8217;ve got a swatch of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spoonflower.com\/fabric\/513685\">Squids in space!<\/a> on order, and I&#8217;m thinking it may be just the thing to tie the room together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. 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