turquoise and reupholstering and too many books

i had a kitchen table that i got for 149 dollars .... it came with four chairs ... in the early 90s .... it was my new husband's and my first big purchase for our tiny new house ... we eventually bought two more chairs to go with it ..... so it was a seat six table ... fast forward to twins .... and i had countless art projects with them on that table ... the finish starting rubbing away ... the red dot paint didn't come all the way off even with bleach .... and there was glitter ground into the no-finish-left grain .... and it was our kitchen table up to a few weeks ago .... we ate off it in the brown house ... and considered not bringing it back into our new reno house ... it was such a wreck of a table .... but ... i needed a table for my library .... so ... i gave it to painter wendy and she worked her magic .... she refinished the top in a dark walnut ... and she put the bottom-used-to-be-white-part and put it in her spray booth ... and sprayed on a lovely dark turquoise ... and now .... my sad sack, old, cheap table is one of my favorite pieces of furniture in the house ... it is in my library (really what most people would call their formal living room ... but since i'm not formal ... and little living happens in living rooms ... we call it the library ..... )so ... it's the table in the library ... near our wall of books ... surrounded by the chairs that used to be my parents' dining room chairs ...well... and mine too, for that matter .... we had them as hand me down dining chairs until we upgraded to a different set of hand me down chairs ... from mr.e.beck.artist's grandmother .... 

so ... boy.beck.artist and i spent a day reupholstering the seats .. six library chairs .. and six dining room chairs .... it took longer than we wanted ... largely because ancient screw are hard to remove ... and hard to put back in .....

here's the front hall mid project .... with a glimpse of the turquoiseyloveliness table .....

and here's a close up of one of the fabrics ... i chose two for the library ... 

and here's the chair, the table, a different fabric , and some shelf ...

and the final shot .... a like new library .... my pal dana helped me pack and unpack a zillion and three boxes ... and she indulged my peculiarities and helped me alphabetize my library ... i'm not compulsive about much ... just the important stuff ... like good books ....

as i unpacked and alphabetized i found tons of books that i need to reread .... 

do you reread books? 

do you upholster your own stuff? 

do you like painted furniture? 

do you know how tired i am? 

i sold a pear painting this week .... it was mostly the color of that table there .... good karma ...