I HAD to have these stools. In this color. NOW.
I rhallly need some pops of color in my house. I have only been able to stay in my safe neutrals decorating zone up in here, thus far.
A little research lead me to find that Toilex stools are around $300 dollas a piece. Oh the shame!!! They were not to be mine.
BUT. I did find some crazy cheap knock-offs at Overstock. I had to do some convincing with Mr. B ("But they're METAL" he says..."We don't have any metal in our house, I thought we were getting some cross backed white wood ones?". This boy REALLY likes his Pottery Barn stock.)
Soooooo I got four stools for half the price of one Toilex! Yay for Knock-offs.
I still wish they were blue. I had a breif moment where I thought I would paint them, but realized that that would involve some pretty snazzy clear-coating expertise that only an auto body shop could pull off...
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You could EASILY paint them blue with gloss or satin spray paint from the hardware store. I paint lot of stuff now and after some simple practice (ie patience: let the color build up and do two coats instead of wanting to see it turn blue immediately) it turns out GREAT! Metal especially. Get rustollium - they have a nice baby blue color I sprayed the metal legs of a rolly side table that were ikky army green - I love it now!!! Go for it!!!
ReplyDeletePS - Good choice! I think the stool will look great and add variety (unlike if you had gone with Pottery Barn)
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If only you had a beater truck! I bet you could flirt with someone at an auto-body shop and get them painted for a smile!
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