This post covers a whole new project I've had happening for a while so I thought I'd share.
I was given four of these chairs which were painted in a cream(ish) colour with purple velour seats and gold piping.
They had been in storage for some time and they have hung around as a possible project for years waiting for me to decide where to go with them so the fabric and the paintwork was pretty shabby looking and not really my taste. This post is the story of the first chair.
With my current dual obsessions with recycling denim and all things patchwork, this is what I came up with.
Sanded back and repaint the chair white.
Pulled off all the upholstery and used the old bits as a template to create patchwork pieces to go back on. (All the fabric used was already in my stash as was the paint so no cost involved.)
Using a staple gun, fitted the new upholstery onto the freshly painted chair and ... voila
I still have to glue the trim in place over the staples to satisfy my picky nature but all up I'm delighted with the results. The big decision now is whether to keep this as a feature chair and do the others completely differently or create a "set" of four (although they will all be different of course). What do you think?
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