Good moaning! How are you all?
Well we are all very good…we had a little holiday last week and drove a couple hours north from our old place and spent a just lovely time in the uber-fabulous winter weather that we’ve been having here.
Getting back here this Monday morning and having packed two of the Beach Cottage Crew off to school I am itching to get some projects done…I am telling you people I have MySweetSavannah’s ideas and chalkboard paint on my mind like mad and have been stomping around this cottage looking for a suitable wall to attack… more on that soon.
And I got going on this old chair, remember the one I found on that day of junking all by itself on the side of the road?
Now I debated whether or not to paint this or indeed whether I should perhaps waver from my tried and tested beach vintage decorating forumula of white and move on perhaps to off-white, haha, no, a rather brighter colour to jazz up this old place?
But of course, you know me and with all that colour the other day from the aqua lol, I went for white and as soon as I did it I regretted it and no not because of the colour palette but more because I believe I should have left her in her beaten-up state she was pretty good shabby…
Here in as-found state and just about to be hit with the detergent…
So that’s another lesson for me, to really think before slap 
But as you can see she was filthy..much dirtier than this picture shows and I felt needed to be cleansed.
A funny thing happened with this before it was given the Beach Cottage treatment…the Saturday night following picking it up, we had friends coming over…so of course, the cottage was cleaned within an inch of its life, cupboards were stuffed with crapola, things were stashed behind the sofa but all on deck was clean and calm.
When they arrived, the cottage was filled with the aroma of a couple of roast chickens anointed with oil, garlic and herbs in the oven, wine, for those who partake, was chilling nicely and a brie was happily toasting in its box to tempt us…
And this chair had somehow dodged the Beach Cottage Cleanathon and was left in the Sitting Room still in its squalid state, but with the candles and lamps and general low lighting all around one could not ahem see that it should not be sat on.
And so one of our guests with rather light coloured trousers sat on and more got comfortable on and more commented on our lovely new chair!
Eeek.
Mr Beach Cottage thought twice about mentioning that in fact it was covered in grime and I spluttered on my Peroni checking out the rather expensive pants and knowing the grunge on the chair would be marking it.
And so my dear Beach Cottagers we let it be and let our guest squander in the dirt of the chair…hoping to ply them with enough tipples that years-of-dirt-on-white-pants would not indeed effect our friendship.
And so back to the chair, halfway through I kicked myself for my painting blunder and though for sure it was looking pretty happy with it’s freshness I decided that I must leave something of the old lady behind.
And so I left the legs shabby…
But now I am wondering quite what this chair is because with two funny cream front legs and the rest white it looks almost like this is an amalgamation of chairs…the front legs look like a different era to the back…..do you think so too?
After noticing this, I turned it over and after much examination and debate between most of the BC household we believe that these are in fact the original legs…
but now I am unsure as to whether they should be left or zapped??
And so my question for you this fine day, as it seems I do actually listen to what you guys think which is Mr Beach Cottage says a miracle, is
shall I paint front legs white?
or clean up, sandpaper attack and leave as be?
OK, that’s it from me, I am outta here looking for a wall to chalkboard and ready and waiting with that white paint…
shared at Susan’s Met Monday…thanks!
I would go ahead and paint the legs white, and maybe distress them a bit. What a great chair though! Love it!
I would paint the legs white and distress them! Great chair!
I’d go with the distressing and white paint job too. Otherwise it looks a bit unfinished and doesn’t gel as a whole.
Are those front legs original, or were they different to begin with? They look so much different than the back legs that I’m wondering if they were added by piecing together parts of two chairs. I’m thinking they might be older than the original chair so you might want to check that out before you do anything to them.
Blessings,
Marcia
Oh my, what an interesting chair. I don’t think I’ve ever seem legs quite like that before. But Sarah, after having recently painting two very similar chairs, you know I would have to vote paint it. I am enamored of anything that whispers that it came from a beach cottage but I just haven’t quite figured out how to fight off my mother’s voice in my head telling me to paint it, replace it or throw it out. I believe my mother would swoon at anything that didn’t look as if it came off the showroom floor.
As always, love your blog, your sense of humor and your ability to brighten my day. Please come on over to my blog and vote on my own poll – Should I paint the cabinet in my bathroom white? And a mention in one of your postings would be so appreciated so I can get some of your readers over to vote — I’m still trying to develop a group of followers but alas, I am still invisible to most of the blogging world. Sigh… (If they would just go shopping with me to garage and church rummage sales, they would just worship my ability to spot a treasure from a hundred yards – with only sight in one eye no less.)
Hugz
That chair is just beautiful! I don’t know.. those legs just look too different to be the originals. I say clean it up and leave it as is. It gives it some charm and looks good and shabby already.
It’s funny that you mention your friend sitting on the chair before it was cleaned… same thing happened to me, however, my small couch was covered in cat fur (EEK!) and my sister sat on it before I had the chance to run the dustbuster over it. She had a nice black suit on and when she got up I felt so embarrassed, her back was covered in cat fur!! I could have just died.
Great chair, love it!