New Rocker

A couple weeks ago when walking in the neighborhood... we saw a cute little kids rocking chair on a curb. It had one missing slat and one cracked in half... it was sturdy and cute, and we took it home. Cruz right away enjoyed rocking away on it... even in its abused shape.

Novali of course wanted to fix it for her brother, and I of course love working on projects with Novali. Her task was to pick the color, and mine was to figure out how we would fix it. A trip to Hobby Lobby netted us some wood project strips (for a birdhouse) that were nearly the right size. We did the math in the store (cause we actually remembered to take measurements with us to the store for this project) and figured out a plan.

Sanding the curves.

The new seat of the rocker!

Prepping the chair for paint.

We pried the slats off, keeping track of parts and we made a game plan to put it back together. We then took our straight slats and cut two of them to curves for like the end pieces. A careful assembly process of cut, test fit, cut... and we had her back together!

Then a trip to Menards to cruise the paint isle for what Novali thought Cruz might want... mostly going off color names she decided on "Paprika" from Rustoleum. So we will have a little baby paprika chair...time to paint... Novali helped lay the layers of paint down, and after a few coats...

Spray painting

Before...

After!

After $6 in wood, $2 in paint and some free elbow grease.... WhaaLaa!


Once the paint dries fully, we get to watch Cruz take it for a test drive...