The next little bite was the comfy seats we had to arrange.
We bought ten big pillows, sized 80 x 80 cm and decided I’d sew the pillow cases.
The next quest was for finding the right patterns for the pillow cases. A shop right next to the pillow shop saved us with a variety of beautiful garments. We also needed a large amount of velcro, to attach the pillows to the pallet couches.
And here I am, busy bee again (:
“Hello hello oh blue heaven”
So the Pale blue beauty is all dry and ready for further jokes. After 40 mins I’ve sprinkled it with the vivid blue oil-paint. Basically dipped a round medium sized brush intothe can and then just sprinkled the rear part of the chair with it. Once this little touch was completely dry I moved on to the decoupage. The front right foot was fully covered in pale yellow napkin with a rose print, from which I’ve cut a large piece to stick on the seat as well. I’ve used the regular decoupage technique with a decoupage glue (in other places in the world called Mod podge). Once dry, which is pretty quick in the case with the decoupage glue, I’ve finished it with matte spray varnish.
Poor old thing, expecting a total apocalypse to commence quite soon
While my partner in crime was painting the navy pallets for the long couch, I commenced the make over of the old chairs. They are three in total, all from a wooden 5-piece set about 40 years old, in a good condition. I’ve used spray paint for the pale blue and the yellow chair and oil paint for the vivid blue. Above you can witness the chair before the make over. I did the pale and the vivid blue chairs simultaneously and I’ve started with first sanding them thoroughly with a fine sand paper (150) as I did not want too much grit.
Then cleaned them up very well with a damp cloth and left them to 
dry in the sun for an hour. Then spray-painted the pale blue chair with Edding spray paint I bought from Germany but I am pretty sure you would be able to find similar “pastell-blau” color among other brands (the color is quite gorgeous matte!). The vivid blue is an oil-paint. After covering the chairs with the first and only coat I left them to dry for a couple of hours (You will notice I didn’t use a primer here as I did not find it necessary at all after sanding. Lazy gal). To be fair the spray paint does not need that much time before further manipulations.
So in the very beginning, we decided we’d go for pallet furniture for both living room and bedroom. Bought a bunch of them, second hand, fairly used but in a great condition. We have sanded them all thoroughly and then varnished those that were going to keep their original ‘wood’ color (the ones for the bed), using Yacht clear varnish. Meanwhile the walls went matte white and 7 square niches appeared in the wall, createt by a specialist though… We’ve decided to go for a long and a short pallet couches for the living room.
The short one consists of two horizontal and one vertical, cut just after the middle, pallet as well as 4 wheels with a 10 cm diameter and breaks. The white bits are strictly inside the rectangle frames, following the natural forms of the pallet, covered with white matte latex and varnish everywhere else. I’ve kept the white paint inside by using paper tape on the closest outside lines. Later on, my partner in crime decided the couch needed “place where your arms could rest too” and he used thirds of the tops of the pallet to adjust them on the sides of the pallet couch. It’s latest photo can be seen later, when it gets back home from clubbing.
Salt Life Blues Art Dock 