From Frumpy to Fabulous!

We have 2 bar stools that I'm particularly in love with. They are plain & simple but for some reason they've been my favorite since we got them. And the best part is that I found them at a garage sale.....for $25 for BOTH!!!! Now we use our bar stools a lot since we eat at our kitchen island for every meal. So that's 3 meals a day * 7 days a week * 52 weeks a year = a lot of eating & a lot of messes to be made. It never fails that every meal involves a spill of sort kind from one of the boys (primarily Levi). Therefore, our chairs start to look nasty very quickly. Evidence below:

(Really gross, I know. Please don't judge!)

I decided to give my chairs a scrub to get rid of the nasty stains. I only used 2 household ingredients: baking soda & Dawn dish soap. Add some hot water & you have yourself a very cheap, easy cleaning mixture. I couldn't find my scrub brush that I normally use so I just used a dish cloth & it worked quite well. I went over the fabric twice with my cleaner & this was the end result after it dried:

 





I'm very pleased with how my chairs turned out. There is 1 pesky stain left but this is a vast improvement compared to 'before'. Now if only I could keep the kids from getting them dirty again........