Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Seeing Stripes

My new friend who just moved up from southern California had accidentally packed this old ugly chair that was intended for good will. She saw what I did to my kitchen chairs and thought that I would like to recover this chair for my "future kids." And well, she was right.
When I first started ripping the chair to shreds I was sure this was going to be the cutest chair ever, after all how could it be any worse than what it had shown up to be as.
So last night I starting as I said ripping it down to the bare cushions, taking out countless staples, and getting it prepped for the reupholstering I would do to it today.
I went to Joann's today to get some fabric, I knew that I wanted some sort of animal print, but that was as far as my ideas had gone. I spent 2 hours looking, comparing, texting pictures to sisters, and friends trying to get input on what looked best, and what would be gender neutral . I was having a really hard time finding two that went together. I liked the busy fabrics, but I just couldn't find and winner winner chicken dinner type matches. I randomly put these two fabrics together and LOVED it! I bought them, after standing in line at the cut table for FOREVER, came home, and started working.
Total I worked on it for about 7 hours. It has been a great project, I love doing stuff like this. I only wish I had a few more things to do. I had a blast doing it.

What do you think?











6 comments:

  1. Very cute! Very gender neutral. I want one! I mean, for Cami and Austin, not for me. I wouldn't fit.

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  2. Holy Cow! I love it! You are awesome! I need you to come and help me with my stuff! :)

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  3. oh my gosh! so cute! Wish you could teach me!

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  4. oh my gosh I love that! that's seriously awesome Michelle my belle. You should come reupholster my full sized couches please and thank you very much. You will be so happy you have that thing. And you will be even happier that it makes you happy to look at because I have so much ugly kid stuff in my house!

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