Well, excuse me, but I think you've got my chair...

We scored these great metal yard chairs from some of Scott's grandma's old stuff.  As you can see, the years had been cruel to these little cuties.  So, I gave them a spa treatment, and they now look like brand new chairs that are worthy of the Ruby Tequila's patio.

The first step was to clean them off (the birds really liked them).  I had to use a scrub brush and the "jet" setting on our spray gun to get all the rust and "bird impurities" off.  Then I spray painted the arms with a new coat of white.

The next step was taping.  And that was an extremely tedious job.  It took about 30 minutes per chair to wrap the arms and legs, and there were three chairs.  Mind you, I was trying to get all this done when it was raining every other day in June, so what should have taken two evenings ended up taking a week-and-a-half.

We made good use of our old shower curtains (as seen in the picture to the left).  I felt like a genius when I realized the old, musty shower could double as a paint drop cloth.  Of course, I often feel like a genius.

After painting the first chair an awesome lime green, Scott and I really liked the color combination of "painters' tape blue" with the lime green.  Lucky for me, Rustoleum makes and Home Depot sells painters' tape blue in the vast selection of spray paints.  (Note:  Painters' tape blue is not the actual name of the paint color, but I like the name that I came up with.  It's cute, don't you think?)




I also bought a lovely shade of lemon yellow to round out the trio.

And here is the finished product!  I love the way they turned out and I am so pleased with the outcome of our patio.  I did all of the painting and landscaping.  Scott watched.

After I came up with the catchy title (thanks, George Strait), and as I was writing this post, I couldn't get George's 1980s mega-hit The Chair out of my head. The song was on my iPod, because I have the entire Strait out of the Box set stored there, but I couldn't figure out how to pull the song off my iPod and embed it into my blog.  So after two minutes of frustration, I went to YouTube, and oh...my...goodness.  I found excellence in 1980s video making.  I couldn't bear to keep this gem of a video to myself, and I had to share it with you, all eight readers of my blog.  Enjoy.