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No Strip or Sand Stained Dining Chairs

I wanted new dining chairs for my own home to go with our antique Duncan Phyfe style dining table  I restored. Previously we had leather parson's chairs but I have always loved the look of wooden pressback chairs so this is what I chose to replace them with. And I am going to stain them WITHOUT stripping and sanding! I had 2 sets of press back chairs in my stock to paint, now to decide which set. My husband and I did a comfort sitting test and of course visual and went with the slightly larger ones on the left. This set also has 2 captains chairs as a bonus.

quilt rack & county wall shelf

I pondered painting the unfinished pine quilt rack but with pine it will leech thru without primer even with chalk paint so after lots of back and forth I decided to stain it the color of our cabinets and poly and if I don't like I can them paint as it will be sealed.

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 after

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 after
unfortunately the color does not show true to either but they are lovely stained now

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