Chair Transformation

After

This is a story about two lonely chairs in need of a beauty make-over.



I spotted two of these chairs at a thrift store. Right there and then I knew that I could make these chairs look beautiful...again.



Oh nooooooooooooooo,



they didn't look like this!



They looked like...







This (BEFORE)

Before

  Ok, so you think, "hey, these are not all that bad!" But up close, they were dirty but had great a great bone structure.



  At the time, we had transformed our formal dining room into a study and I thought that these would be perfect for in there.



  I took them all apart after purchasing two different (but coordinating) kinds of upholstery fabric.  And I upholstered them complete with lumbar pillows.

One before and one after. I added more foam to the seat for added comfort.

The arms and legs didn't look this red in real life. I think the camera added depth of color and made them look more red than they actually were. But I took a picture and emailed them to my sister. She is really good to bounce off ideas from. I should have done this before because she loved the upholstery but hated the color of the arms and legs. The more I looked at these, I knew she was right, so I did what I don't recommend that you do, I painted the legs and arms AFTER I upholstered the chairs. Very tricky to do especially with oil base paint that I used.

After upholstery and painting black

Lumbar pillow with piping, pin tucks and brush fringe.

Coordinating material was used on the piping and back of the chairs

Here they are in the study and you can see that post here.

As seen in our study

I made a valance for that room out of the left-over material. And painted the finials on the rods.

Valance I made using left-over fabric from chairs.

Then I sold one of them to my good friend and it looks great in her living room and you can see the post I did of her living room here.

It's been amazing to see how good these chairs look in different rooms and different houses.

NOTE: You should be able to click on most of the pictures to enlarge to see further details.

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