Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Chair love

I was lucky enough to find this beauty of a chair the other day. It was in perfect shape all except for the straw wrapped seat. I LOVE this style of chair and would have given my left leg for a matching pair. OK, maybe that's an exaggeration, but for sure a toe.  I still had to get the one because it was only $10!  The paint job is beautiful and all I had to do to it was rub it down with a magic eraser! The seat definitely needed some TLC so I cut the straw off and Joe traced the wooden frame and cut me out a matching seat.  I bought a foam pad and traced the shape of the seat onto it.  Next I stapled the fabric onto the seat starting in the center of the back and then pulling the fabric tight to the opposite side. I then did the sides in the same way and  wrapped the corners.  The first fabric I tried was a red print which I didn't end up liking very much and so I ended up using a print that I used on a shelf a few weeks ago because I really liked the brown in it.  I'm a big fan of chairs and I think it's really fun to collect a variety of styles and shapes!  

6 comments:

  1. It looks great!! I love chairs too! I buy a lot of them... and sometimes I need to put them in the attic...

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  2. I love Empire chairs too! (Pottery Barn sells them as "Napoleon Chairs") I found TWO of them at a recent garage sale - $4 each! BIG score. (The wife was inside - The hubby sold them to me :-)
    Mine have rush seats and the same simple legs. I sure wish I knew where I could get two more!
    Your update looks fabulous!

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  3. So cute! I wish I had a skill saw to do something like that. It turned out great!

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  5. Love it...the fabric is great!

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