Faux Bamboo Dining Room Chairs

This dining room has always been one I adored, probably because of the Faux Bamboo Dining Room Chairs

NOT for the wallpaper, drapery, chandelier, or colors (don’t get me wrong it’s classic), but not my style. The part I love is the dark wood table and server with faux white bamboo dining chairs.

This one is more my style…

Now, I can easily go online to Ballard Designs and order 8 – 10 of these chairs, but it would cost me almost $2,000.  Which is not what I want to spend, and more importantly, I have seen these chairs in person and they are not authentic or solid wood. I wanted true authentic wood chairs with the bamboo Chippendale design.

So I turned to Ebay, craigslist, Chairish and checked them daily.

Well, after only 2 days I found this.

YUP, original Shelby Williams wood chairs, and you read that right $25 each. I called and they said if I came within 24 hours I could get them for $20 each. I, of course, went running halfway to the Southern Illinois auction house

And here they were. My original Faux Bamboo Chairs

I got to sit in over 20 of them, picking out 8 chairs that had not damage and were 100% sturdy.  Of course I placed my babies gently into the van.

Here was my living room chairs before in case you were curious.

And I was able to sell all 6 of these chairs on a Virtual Garage Sale Site so I could place my new chairs. Here they are in their new home but just a sneak peak since they are not refinished yet. All 8 chairs will get lacquered up and reupholstered.

Can’t wait to start that process asap!