Project #2

****this project has been cancelled***

I got the dust cover off it & started removing the legs & staples & the whole underside of this chair is chipboard plywood. I can't fill the holes & when I remove staples the chipboard just makes huge craters ...Just not worth my $$$ & time to re-do it. I will cannibalize the down cushion & maybe the seat springs. Other than that? I'll trash it later this week.

This upholstery/slipcover project #2. I am going to strip this chair & upholter it in a khaki colored twill. I will not put piping on anything as I plan on making a slipcover for it too! The slipcover will have piping.

This is the front view - I already took the cushion off & have all the fabric disassembled & hope to have the cushion done tonight. The back cushion is connected to the back part of the chair. I don't like that & it won't be like that when I am done with it. It is also filled with DOWN. I told Prince Charming I didn't know what I'd find under there ... He said FEATHERS. Thanks babe. I meant like if they are in some sort of pillow case or what...We shall see. It is a pretty large chair I sits really comfortably. I got it from a yard sale in Brentwood. I don't know if the legs were wiggly when I bought it or if I did that moving by myself.

Side view. It's up on a whole peice of plywood on sawhorses. The folding table I worked on the last time is too small & too low. This one might be too tall. Again. We shall see.

That's Prince Charming's HUGE tool box behind the chair. And clamps...do you see the clamps on the left of the photo? Lemme tell you, those jobbies come in super handy!

I am taking this one slower. Obviously because I am doing it TWICE. I have a couch in storage that I got for free. It's white. But when I get done with it??? The slipcover will match the slip I do on THIS chair. Bet you can't guess what color the slipcovers are going to be???? It's a color WAY out of my box.

TURQUOISE

Yep! Got it 50% off from Joann's.

Stay tuned

Sam

Next Project? Maybe!

This is a set of chairs that I bought off craigslist this week. I think this BASEMENT lighting aptly represents the brown velour on these chairs! Isn't it just terrible? They are sturday & sit real nice too. I am tentatively planning on stripping all the fabric & then painting them with a black chalk paint and then reupholstering them in a black & white toile. No tufting!

Stay tuned.

Sam

Day Five - 1st Re-Upholstery Project The Big Finish!

Inside back Completed.

Back tacked at top only....Had to use ply-grip after this point, on the back.

Back

Back

Here's an AFTER photo

TaDa! The feet I ordered are not IN yet...it used to have rocker rails, but I am not putting htem back on.

Day Four - 1st Re-Upholstery Project

This picture shows where I am pinning the welt (piping) to the arm front

Fitting the right arm on.

Right arm pulled & stapled into place.

Another view of the 2nd arm.

This phont is actually out or sequence...but it shows the arm pulled to the back but not secured in any way. It's sort of scary at this point.

Day Three - 1st Re-Upholstery Project

Day Two - 1st Re-Upholstery Projecct

Day One - 1st Re-upholstery Project

Fast Forward

Well, the chair I bought in February sat in my studio for months. Or was it FOUR months??? Ha ! LIkely the ladder. At any rate, I ended up giving it away to one of my co-workers. She is using it as is in her living room. I am amp-ing up !! I bought another chair from Goodwill and a wingback chair from the Habitat For Humanity Re-Store. I am leaning more towards UPHOLSTERY, as well as SLIPCOVERS...BUT !!! I need to show you my most recent purchase (to get ready to DO all this upholstery/slipcovering...) (though it won't be usded for slipcovers...I don't think...) Isn't it cute?????

It has got to be the smallest pneumatic stapler I have EVER seen! I am so glad I got it. It weighs next to nothing. (or so I hope) Wish me luck! Sam PS: I promise not to neglect my blog so badly. Ijust have not had a lot of free time, you know????

Getting There

Well, 2 weeks ago I pinned & traced & cut muslin to fit my Good-For-Will chair. And that is as far as I have got! I have bought a commercial grade Consew sewing machine. Off craigslist. I am very happy about this purchase. Let me tell you though, my daughter has named it Big Bertha. No joke, this thing is a monster. And sews lightining fast. I definately have a learning curve to conquer with it!!

Last weekend I painted our dining room, and THIS weekend I am likely painting the master bedroom & the master bathroom. No, I don't like painting. It just needs to be done. I have been lurking on multiple blogs & websites of folks that are doing slipcovers and I am SO EXCITED to get started. Honestly? I have been surfing craigslist looking for furniture that can be slipcovered. What am I going to do with it when it gets done? Gosh, I just don't know. Maybe I can do something really nice in my formal living room? It's so dark in there. I WANT too. Don't know if Prince Charming is up for a change in there, as that furniture is only 3 years old. No I can't slipcover THAT furniture because #1 is Ashley furniture, which means the back seat cushions are sewn to the back of the couch #2 it's only 3 years old....#3 I don't know why not.

I'll post more as I get farther!

Sam

1st Victim

yesterday on my way home, I stopped @ Goodwill & picked up an arm chair that I am going to try & slip cover as my first project! Let me see if I can get a picture for you on this post.

some 13 years ago, when we moved into our house in Alabama, I TRIED to do some reupholstery. I had bought a white couch & a white loveseat. They matched & were the right size. Well, white was not a good color with 2 adults that work in a LANDFILL environment & 2 kids & a cat & then shortly a (short) dog. So I thought I would try to reupholster the couch. How hard can it be? Harder than I wanted it to be. And more dirty than I wanted. Fast forward to 2012 & I am flailing around trying to find yet ANOTHER hobby to keep me busy. It looks interesting. It looks challenging. It looks like it would be easier than actual re-upholstering. We shall see.

I bought 2 DVD's. One from Slipcovers by Shelly & the other by John French. I watched Shelly's last night. She breaks it down in easy to understand steps and she doesn't make it super difficult or PRECISE. It's not like a paper pattern or soemthing. She fits the individual chair/couch/item as she goes & she showed HOW to do it. I don't have the 2nd set of DVD's yet. I'll weigh in on those after I have read them.

sam

New Endeavor

Hope to learn to DO this soon!!

Sam