Chairs

So when Crit and I moved into the house he got the couch, dining room table and chairs for dirt cheap on craigs list. Chairs are shown below (left) and you have probably seen them in other posts. As you can tell, they suck. So we took on the project of sanding, painting and re-upholstering them. After heming and hawing about the paint color for a few months, the actual work part of this project probably took about a month. It was not too bad once we got it down to an assembly line like process. I sanded all the chairs first, then painted them, while Chris was using the staple gun to re-do the fabric. Pics are below, sorry they are so grainy.   

old vs new 

 head on view

chair on lazy susan contraption I made for painting

                                         

finished product with chairs at dining room table

chairs are used throughout the main room for various purposes 

Back alley update

So this is not exactly sexy or exciting but it is work on the house none-the-less and is therefore included in this fantastic little blog.
Chris was taking out the trash one day and suddenly found himself two feet shorter as he crashed through the ground and was knee deep in the concrete alley way. A pit had formed through a leak in the drainage pipe out back. It happened at an opportune time. It was the same time we were taking the wall down and had tons of bits and pieces that we couldn't be put out for trash removal because they're too heavy and the precious trash man cannot take away anything over 50lbs. So we used it to fill in the pit that had recently formed in our alley way. Hooray!
Chris poured the cement and everything himself. According to him there were approximately 1000lbs of crap from the wall removal, 800 lbs of stone (in addition to the wall material to fill the hole) and 1200 lbs of concrete to smooth over the pit. All this material was shipped from the Home Depot in the back of his Passat to the house in only 3 trips! Unfortunately I did not get any pics of him in action. Just take my word for it, it is not as easy as these photos portray :)

Before

After