Dining Room — The Final Striped Fabric, More Sconces, And Bench Progress

It took a while and many, many attempts before I finally landed on the right design that I absolutely love. This is the last one that I shared with y’all yesterday…

After about five or six attempts, walking away after each one and then coming back to it with fresh eyes, I finally had a design that I love. From the beginning of that process to the end, I realized two things. First, I was trying to stuff too many colors into the pattern, so I removed some of them and boiled it down to the few colors that I really wanted. And I also realized that the really skinny stripes were making the whole thing look too busy. So after getting rid of the skinny stripes and the extra colors, this is the final design I came up with.

Here’s what it looks like on the Spoonflower chair…

And here’s a look at it with the drapery fabric.

For my dining room chairs, I’ll be using a small version with a 14-inch horizontal repeat so that the all of the colors are visible on the backs of the chairs. But because I love this final design so much, I also uploaded an extra large version of it because I wanted to see what it would look like on wallpaper, and y’all know I like BIG designs on wallpaper. And, oh my goodness, I want to see this in an actual room!

Spoonflower doesn’t have great options for showing wallpaper in a room (in my humble opinion), but this is probably the best one of the options they have. Will one of you PLEASE buy this wallpaper and use it on your walls, and then send me pictures?! 😀 Just imagine how fun this would be in a laundry room or a guest bathroom!

And here it is on a duvet cover, which is also really fun.

I also worked on the benches yesterday, but I didn’t get very far on those because the first thing I had to do was make the legs for the benches. And I need eight of them, so these took a while. I used some cute legs that I bought on Etsy and married those to plain, square legs to give me a top block that I can attach the stretcher boards to. I’ll go over the details of how I did this in a future post, but for now, here’s how the legs are turned out. I still need to cut them to the right height for my benches.

And finally, in my effort to save money and use what I have, I decided to reuse the sconces on the pantry wall. But the color is all wrong.

So I went through my stash of gold spray paints and chose this one…

It didn’t go well. Look at the color on the can compared to the color on the sconces. It’s not even close! The sconces look more copper than gold.

And the paint ran. I didn’t spray it on heavy. I know the first rule of spray paint — use thin coats. But it still did this on both sconces.

And the weird thing is that the paint is smooth. If you run your fingers over those areas, it’s not raised. It’s a smooth finish. So that’s weird, and very frustrating.

I have lots of other gold spray paints on hand that I can try, but I might end up having to use gold leaf again. I’m fine with that, but I sure was hoping to get these painted quickly and get them back up on the wall so that I could check something off of my list.