The other week, I asked you what projects you were working on, and I've got to say, you are all some busy bees. While some of you are painting rooms, stripping cabinets, and arranging home offices, I told you that I was going to reupholster a chair that I found for $2.50 at a flea market. Here's what the chair looked like before I switched out the fabric.
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The folks at Better Homes and Gardens took this modern microsuede slipper chair and reupholstered it in an icy blue fabric with lots of dressmaker details like pleating and tufting. You're probably thinking, "Cool story, Hansel." Right?
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Andrea, who writes the delightful blog Some Twittery, recently reupholstered an old chair. She writes, "The chair above has been sitting in the kitchen for about five months, patiently waiting for its moment to sparkle. I found it at an antique store.
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A celeb client of Danny Seo's had these cringe-worthy dog stairs by her bed, but her pooch couldn't part with them. So, it was unanimously decided that they needed a chic facelift. Seo hopped over to a flea market in Los Angeles, where he picked up a vintage Peruvian rug for around $30.
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Craftster member Dink recently took this dingy (in her words, "skanky") office chair from trashy to fantastic with a simple reupholstery project. Here's how it looked beforehand. Dink explains that the missing fabric is due to her "habit of sitting with both my feet up on the office chair, cross-legged in a not-quite-lotus position.
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TeamSugar member Sgdish had a plain vanilla, and stained, vintage armchair with a great frame that was just begging for a makeover. She decided to "be bold and choose two different coordinating fabrics" for reupholstery, but used the same fabric for the chair's trim as on its backside. The results are truly impressive and inspiring.
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If you're a bargain hunter, you've likely come across some beautiful antique dining chairs. Sometimes the actual structure of the chair is in great shape, though the seat's fabric covering is ratty or just poorly upholstered. No worries!
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I love this chair makeover from Craft magazine photo editor, Sam Murphy. Here's what she started out with.
To see the charming results, .
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Chairloom is a Pennsylvania company that repairs, reupholsters, and reinvents vintage furniture pieces, mostly seating and ottomans, with fresh, stylish fabrics. Quality antiques in their own right, given a facelift with textiles like Schumacher, Oliveiera, Rubie Green, Virginia Johnson, and John Robshaw, owner Molly Worth's pieces are inherently high-end. Her keen eye for design takes the old to new levels, with her careful arrangement and selection of fabrics and perfect choices of Benjamin Moore paint color to make colors pop.
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Absolutely Beautiful Things recently took on the challenge of reupholstering an old armchair. I suppose this senior citizen has its charms, but it's also clearly been through a lot of wear and tear over the years. She chose a gorgeous, lattice-like pattern for the fabric, and "decided to replace the gathered arm detail on this chair with face and piping detail."
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