Shed treasure revisited

Remember this post?  Where I found all those awesome things in my creepy shed?  I was really excited about these folding chairs:

I planned on leaving them like they were, until I looked a little closer:

Some were in worse shape than others, but there was no way I was going to sit on any of them.  I pushed on one with my hand and one of the bands completely ripped.  So I did this:

{Don't mind the junk in the background}

I cleaned, primed, painted, cut outdoor fabric into strips, bought new screws and nuts (the old ones were all rusty), and now:

The thing is, I'm just not feeling it anymore.  I wish I had chosen different fabric or a different paint color or both.  That's probably why it took me so long.  It was almost right after I got home from Joann's that I decided I didn't like the fabric as much as I thought I did.  That always happens to me- If I don't have a very specific idea of what I want and I just get too overwhelmed at the fabric store so I pressure myself into just making a decision.  Does that happen to other people?
It probably didn't help that the Mimster was with me and she started to get really bored and hard to handle.
I know what I want now- I wish I had gotten plain canvas.  I don't know about frame color.  I probably would like this blue with canvas, but how cool would copper spray paint would have looked?  Or yellow.  Anything would be awesome with plain canvas.  And then I could do awesome, colorful outdoor pillows.
Sigh.
Since I've only finished this one chair, I'll probably just leave the others until next year, when I'll redo them again.  I'm sure not going to invest anymore time into these when I don't absolutely love them: they're very time consuming.  To give you an idea, here's the time/cost break down:

Removing the old fabric: about 45 minutes for all 4 chairs
Priming: I don't know.  I did 2 coats, though.
Painting: Also don't know.  I never finished because I ran out of spray paint and was not motivated to buy more.  It took about a can per chair.
Buying fabric:  Not long enough. It cost about 30$ for all the fabric (50% off)
Cutting it into strips:  Probably close to an hour to cut for all 4 chairs.  There were 14 strips per chair.  I used the old brown strips I took off the chairs as patterns.
Spraying the fabric with a clear coat of indoor/outdoor spray paint:  I only did this for one chair.  It's definitely a good step, though.  It made the fabric stiff, which made it easier to work with.
Zig-zagging up the sides of the strips:  I never finished this, even for the chair I put together.  I did it for the solid apple green strips, but not the striped strips.  It wasn't worth the time.  Even just doing those took over a half hour and almost an entire spool of thread.
Putting it together:  Like an hour per chair.  The hardest part was poking a holes through the fabric.

Yikes.  Too bad one of my bigger projects this summer turned out to be such a bust.  Ahwell, at least I know it works, and now I know what I want them to look like.  Next summer.

{A close-up of the zig zag along the edges of the strips}

{I folded the fabric into triangles on the end, which meant poking through 4 layers of fabric.  I used a nail, then stuck the screw through the whole.}

There you go.  A good idea gone wrong (not horribly wrong- just not as wonderful as I thought).