Dumpster Diving?

I love the story behind these chairs!

We had just bought our first home. We needed dining room chairs. My initial plan was to find four different styles of chairs, paint them all the same colour and re-upholster them with the same fabric like these ones I came across:

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I came by my garbage night "shopping" habit at an early age. My mom (who is the QUEEN of refurbishing thrift store, garage sale, and curb side finds) taught me that there were so many treasures out at the curb on Thursday nights in our neighbourhood!

The habit was hard to break. I was on my way home from the gym on a cold Ottawa winter night. It was snowing, and the roads were terrible. I was almost there. Through the frosty windshield of our tiny hatchback, I spotted them! My curbside treasure! Four chairs with beautiful bones! I had to have them. I pulled over and sat on each of them. Sturdy. I quickly flung open the hatch and piled one in. Then another??? Nope. Only one fit. I tried to maneuver them every which way. Only one fit. I rushed home and dropped off the chair. Josh laughing his head off at how excited I was. Being the gentleman that he is, he offered to go back and pick up the rest so I could warm up. Off he went & he was back in no time at all. He looked sad (for me). The other three chairs? GONE!

Back to square one. We'll go with the original plan and have four different style chairs. I looked on Used Ottawa and Kijiji and about a week later I found the three missing "garbage chairs" on Used Ottawa! Sooo, short story long, I bought the three matching chairs for $40 and had my complete set of four!

Here's what they looked like in the end...I removed the caning, primed and painted the frames and reupholstered the seats...I was pretty proud of them.

To end the story, when we finally moved into our new home about a month later, my gorgeous chairs were WAY too big for the space...

I sold them on Used Ottawa for a healthy profit!