Funky seat for my hiney

A funky seat for my hiney is just what I needed in my little workshop.

I have the seat.  A wooden bar stool that was a sweet yard sale find for $3.

Since I’m using it in the workshop it needed to be funky and fun.

Now it is!

Seat for my Hiney

It’s themed furniture time of the month.  This month’s theme…numbers or letters.

I decided on a number and what better number than a favorite number.

7!

Why 7?

On my 7th birthday, my parents gave an awesome gift of a transistor radio.  First, how cool is a transistor radio??  Second, how cool it had a “7” on it??

I don’t know why it had a 7 on it, but I decided at the ripe old age of 7 that it would be my lucky number!

Years of living in Las Vegas proved that wrong…

but I persist!

No. 7

I printed out a large 7 on regular paper.  I printed it in a gray color.

Why waste ink!

You can see I painted the seat part with black chalky paint.  The part you can’t see is the paper was covered with white chalk on the back.

Hard to take a photo of white chalk on white paper but….

Using a pencil I outlined the no. 7 and transferred the chalk onto the black.  Notice too I added a circle shape to the 7.

Then I filled in the chalk outline with a putty color of chalky paint.

Updated “Dip” Legs

I started to do the dip look on the legs and then decided to update the dip.

Here’s my finished funky seat for my hiney with my lucky number 7 and updated legs!

You can download the number 7 here for your own seat!

My favorite part is the nick along the side where I hit it with my jigsaw!

Accenting the nick adds to the look…

when I nick it again with my jigsaw!

I used Americana Chalky paint.  My disclaimer, I did not receive any money or product for writing this post.  I purchased the paint at our local home improvement store to share this with you.  It was also purchased for a painting demo at our local Humane Society Thrift store.  I picked the Americana Chalky Paint for the demo because it was readily available in our small community.

Here are my past themed furniture posts.

Decoupage furniture

Two Tone furniture

Now I sit my hiney on my old funky seat and work on some DIY projects to share from our new to us home in Oklahoma. The workshop is now in a long narrow room along the front of the garage. 

The old funky seat needs a new paint job, but so far I haven’t had the heart to redo it or the time. Should a simply redo the paint or give it a completely new paint job? Let me know in comments below. Thank you so much for reading along with my adventures.