Upcycling- a new addiction

I've been most enjoying the sunny weather recently but my cheap table and chairs for the garden is now about 5 years old and everytime you sit down on it you get covered in this white crap, not ideal!

Also recently I've developed an addiction to Pinterest, which had led me into a false sense of confidence about my DIY skills. I decided that rather than get a new set, I would upcycle my old table and chairs into something very fabulous! 

I went and brought some straight to rust pink paint and got to work! 

My enthusiasm lead to a few over-sites
1. Lots of thin layers are better than one thick layer

2. It's a good idea to cover bits that you don't want to get paint on for example, the floor, the chair seats, your clothes
3. Don't have a BBQ the day after you have painted your chairs, even if the paint does seem dry- if you have painted it too thick it's not actually dry and all your guests will get pink paint on them.

Nether the less, I managed to get the pink paint off my guests and also found out my little corner shop sell turps so no harm done!

After a few more coats of paint I was happy with the pink, but thought the black seats looked a bit weird now (plus they were spotted with blobs of pink paint) so I decided to change the seats as well.
I'm not very confident on my sewing skills so I didn't want to recover the seats but if Pinterest has taught me anything it's that I can spraypaint the shit out of anything I want!

Unfortunately the colour I wanted was only available in teeny tiny cans instead of the normal size can so i had to buy 9 cans to finish the project!

                       

Anyway a few lessons learned along the way but otherwise I'm pretty happy with the results and hopefully I'll get a few more years out of them and we will have lots more lovely weather so I can get good use out of them!