For the love of spray paint

Or otherwise titled:

Chair one of seven, and meet my Pop-pop.

I'll get to the chair....First of all, you need to meet my Pop-pop. My grandfather was an awesome person and very special. We lived in the sticks (country, boonies, , the other side of nowhere...), but Pop-pop lived in the city, the big city of Baltimore. Visiting him was a huge treat, and he took us on all kinds of adventures as kids when we visited; we went to Lexington Market, downtown Baltimore and over huge new bridges when they were built. Even a trip through the automated car wash was a treat!

Pop-pop was a successful businessman, even though he just had an 8th grade education. He put his mind to things and just did it. He told me that if someone before you did something, then you could do it too. If you could read, you could cook, and he was an amazing cook and baker. In his retirement, he was an amazing woodworker, and I loved to hang out with him in his basement shop. Pop-pop lived a long, amazing life, sharp and healthy until the very end when he passed in 2002. He was 96.

A few months before, he moved into assisted living. We cleaned out his house, and I inherited his dining room table and chairs. One table, six matching chairs, and one odd chair. I'm not sure why, and I'd love to ask him now about that odd chair!

So I'm finally in the process of redoing these chairs and part of the table to update it;

I used the first chair as a test: But for now, the big reveal:

Before, the finish is worn, different colors, and the blue vinyl cover had to go.

The after:

I used Krylon's "oil rubbed Bronze" and although I like dark finished, I think this will be a bit too dark for the entire table and chairs. You may recognize the fabric (a bit left over from some pillows...I love this fabric!) and was just enough to cover the chair.
And about the spray paint: Over the years I've learned that the new spray paints out there will cover almost everything when my friend Erika suggested that I spray my old brassy chandelier instead of replacing it. Wow...I didn't know!

Now I spray paint everything...more on that later, now back to the chair.

I do love this "mismatch" chair of Pop-pops, and it goes great in my living room.

Thanks Pop-pop! More memories to come. There are a lot, and they are all good.