Decorating with Old Chairs and Stools
Decorating with old Chairs and stools is a fabulous way to incorporate vintage style into your home. They often make simple DIY projects.
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Welcome to another edition of the Lifestyle of Love blog hop. This is where we have a given theme that centers around vintage and thrift finds hosted by the talented Cindy from Country Road 407.
Be sure to follow til the end where you will find links to all of today's posts!
If you are visiting from Paula over at Virginia Sweet Pea, welcome! I am always amazed by Paula's vintage treasures, many of which she has inherited.
Decorating with Old Chairs and Stools
Whether finding old vintage chairs and stools in shops or acquiring from family, they are a fabulous way to add charm to your home. Chairs and stools are usually simple to incorporate into your home due to their smaller size.
They are also simpler to perhaps move around your home as your decorating needs change.
They are usually great candidates for quick and simple makeovers…..if needed.
Below you will find several ways that I have incorporated old chairs and stools into our home!
Decorating with Old Chairs and Stools
I bought these 2 wing-back chairs about 25 years ago from Craigslist. They were both bright canary yellow. They were about 25 years old when I bought them! While this is not a DIY project, they had great bones, were in great shape, and excellent quality. They were an awesome candidate for new upholstery especially since I got them for a steal from a couple in an upper-scale neighborhood that was downsizing.
This stool was literally falling apart. It had such a cute shape. I wanted to leave it as is, but give it a little pizazz with a striped paint treatment just on the top.
A quick way to update a stained piece is to whitewash it or wax it with white wax. This makeover literally took just a few minutes.
This was a fun makeover using a drop cloth and an iron-on decal that was made on my computer!
Make a newer piece look vintage with a paint treatment.
Have a chair or stool, but not sure what to do? Here are some great beginner upholstery projects.
I absolutely love how this stool from a vintage store turned out. I used to use it as our vanity chair in our bath. I have since moved it to the family room in front of a long mirror. It's perfect there. You can see it below in our family room.
Do you see two of the stool projects in this photo mentioned above? Visit to see more of this room tour.
This was a chair that I purchased at the thrift store. I'd say it is from the late 70s or early 80s. I gave it a white paint finish to make it look like one from Pottery Barn. I use it as my sewing chair in my craft room.
Isn't this chair fabulous! I jumped at it a few years back. I didn't have the funds to reupholster it at the time so I painted the leather. I love it to this day. It is on our upstairs landing.
This is the 2nd makeover for this simple chair. Painting stripes on fabric is simple. I explain the process in this post.
This antique iron outdoor set is on our screened porch. The ottoman needed a refresh. The cover was made with stenciled drop cloth.
When I originally gave this vintage piano bench a makeover, it was for a home that we had flipped and I was staging. Now it sits at the foot of our guest bed.
Make sure you visit Cindy from County Road 407 to see how she used old chairs and stools in her decor!
Check out these other ideas with old chairs and stools!
You have so many amazing vintage chairs and stools Christy. I’m loving that stencil on your bar stool and the stripe paint treatment on top of your short stool. This was so much fun!
Thanks so much, Kim! It’s fun looking back at past projects.
Well you should know I love the stools you gave some pizzazz too. Like the iron on decal and stripes. And who reupholsters their metal folding chairs?! You do and they are fabulous! I love every little piece. Thank you for joining n. I loved this post.
Great variety and great ideas. Love that porch stool with the stencil!
I love all of your chairs and stools!!! Your home is beautiful and looks so cozy!!!!! Love it all!!!
Thanks so very much, Emily! I’d forgotten how many I actually had!
I can’t get over all the chair and stool projects you’ve created over the years, Christy! They’re all so fabulous and definitely something I need to dive into. I love the way they give a custom and collected feel to all the rooms in your beautiful home. Hope your Valentine’s weekend is tons of fun, CoCo
Thanks so much, CoCo! I was a little surprised myself when I started going through my archives. I need to do this more often. Happy Valentine’s Day to you as well!!!
Hi Christy, I love your beautiful chairs and stools, wasn’t this such a fun hop? Have the best weekend!
This was a fun hop! I love how these get us digging into our archives! Thanks, friend!
Hi Christy, you have so many wonderful chairs and stools that you’ve refreshed. Loving them all and that adorable sheep cover and the vanity toile stool makeover. Stools are such a fun way add interest. Have a fun Valentine weekend!
Thanks so much, Debra! I agree…stools are so versatile. Now I want to find more! Happy Valentine’s Day!
Reading your post was like going down blog memory lane. You have done so many great chair and stool makeovers over the years and it was great to see them all again.
Thanks so much, Paula! It was fun going through the archives.