let the decon begin...

While I ponder over what to do with the now painted trunk on wheels, sometimes when DIY does not go as planned it helps to let off some steam with some deconstruction. Nothing like taking something apart that can help process frustration with a piece not turning out.

Knowing this was going to be a brutal undertaking, I convinced Brett to help me by popping a funfetti cake in the over to bake while we started the deconstruction of the wing back chairs. With the smell of sprinkley goodness wafting in the air, we gathered some flat head screw drivers, pliers and a sharpie and got to work.

Before anything came off, I labeled each piece of the chair's fabric. This piece of advice came from some tutorials I watched; they recommended using the existing fabric on the chair as the pattern for your new fabric.

My trusty sidekick and I flipped the chair over, and started with the very bottom piece and pried the staples out ever so carefully. A trip to the ER via a staple wound is the last thing I want to do when a funfetti cake is about to conclude baking.

After the under layer was the piping layer, then the actual fabric that made up the outside of the chair, and under that was some batting that was secured. Finally, the bottom of the chair was free and it only took about an hour. Hundreds of staples and no injuries later, I could start to see the next step in construction would be taking out a tack strip that secured the sides of the chair to the base.

Beep....all of that staple pulling was interrupted by the fresh cake. One piece of cake might have been burned off in the exertion to remove all those staples, right? Maybe my motto needs to be: 'Will DIY for cake.'

Regardless of the lengthy process, this exposes the entire legs of the chair so I can start stripping the finish and applying the new finish. That could be an experiment in and of itself, so stay tuned.