Just a thought….

What if...

I were to upholster these two chairs in

SWISS ARMY BLANKETS?

Yes...No...Maybe So???

Take two….S’pose you found a pair of chairs…Arrrgh blogger is making me NUTS!

And they were similar {ish} to Milo Baughman

chairs

...and even in this vanilla colored velvet below

Would you cover them in a bright fun color...notice the swatches in the first pic

a la Sally Wheat as Joni of Cote de Texas showed us

Medic!

give me your thoughts…if you’d please…

Ps…said chairs were a whole 7 clams each.

yep.

Chairs…

As I listened to Bobby McAlpine on the Skirted Round Table this week

terrific interview…go listen if you haven’t. Run.

Something he said really resonated with me.

Chairs

He thinks of chairs as people in a room.

Me too!

I am always pulled to chairs…like giant…or sometimes subdued personalities.

I have too many chairs

but I love them.

Every one of their funky souls…

now don’t these look like people….just hanging out…watching an event? See.

Maybe it is the singleness. The individual uniqueness…

Cause I don’t happen to have any matchy matchy sets. They are all unique…sometimes lost little souls. I collect vagabonds. Yep.

Maybe I am odd. Cross out the maybe. Go ahead.

But I’ll bet a dollar…..even a dollar fifty that you

have an affinity

for one type of furniture too?

spill people.

I wanna know.

linen chair…

Done.

Enuf.

Next: Painting Living room

Who wants to watch the paint dry?

Hello…tap tap tap…this thing on?

Another chair project…

::YAWN::

Hey......I heard that!

Maybe I have a little chair affliction

But

I found some more fabric

and a wayward chair, that happens to have been begging for a revamp

and little does the foyer know...but it is getting on the revamp train too! Shhh.

Meet Mini Butt

Actually in our casa we call it the papa B chair.

It was one of the first things I ever dragged home from the salvation army maybe 20 years ago

My Dad carefully and meticulously

removed the layers of black and gray paint so hip so now

on the hand carved legs...and so they will stay.

It has worn many “clothes” through the years.

But for it’s new facelift…I found some sturdy cotton/linen

Similar to the big butt chair. It was a dream to work with!

I’ll use the leftover nailheads from the last chair project

I have some fun suzani{ish} fabric to make a bolster pillow out of.

Ta-da

see you on the other side…

hopefully.

A chair symphony in four parts…Or…are you bored yet?

For those that asked for finished pics…

you know who you are

Yes I did it myself. Yes I am a total amateur. You can do this too. Promise.

I only needed one band-aid.

It all started with a thrift store find…that I sat In, walked away from, sat in again

and decided I would adopt .

I didn’t like the upholstery and probably it didn’t like me either. If we are being completely honest.

Had no clue what I wanted…was thinking textural, non-color…perhaps a thick linen.

You all came up with GREAT ideas. Love ya for that!

Had no place to put it either.
But you know when these kinda things wiggle their way into your heart…it all works out. somehow.

Big Butt in all her fur laden glory

I have upholstered some couches in the past…but never a chair like this

This didn’t have any way to cheat…to just staple the fabric underneath like the couches did.

I knew I would just have to pull it apart starting with the double welting (the cord going along the bottom.

I never knew it was just glued on. REALLY glued on tight!

suck it up big butt…give me your dayum welting!

With the welting off I began prying off the fabric…which is stapled on with at least

56,334,987 staples. I counted. I know.

I wanted to take it off carefully so I could then use each piece as a pattern. by the time I got to the 56,000,000 th staple
I was ripping at it like a caged baboon.

*Tip: It helped to iron it after it was off.

Serendipity allowed me to find this fabric for a mere 4 bucks a yard.

wild. yes. subdued and non color. no

But with your urging…again I love you’se guy

The marriage was planned. Big Butt was none the wiser.

Now normally one wouldn’t use such a large pattern on such a big butt…I’m sure Big butt would have demurely prefered a neutral linen

or black…to make her butt look smaller.

But she didn’t have a choice in the matter.

With all the pieces off and velvet cut I realized I still didn’t have enough. So came up with a plan to make it look like it was the plan all along. Follow?

Fake it till ya make it mentality. I had some great thick cotton/linen-ish material left over from another unfunded mandate,er… project.

Perfect…in an imperfect kind of way. And free.

Away I went covering the bottom and stapling. Only my staples were thick and cumbersome. And I am pretty sure I called them even worse names.

Start at the bottom…do the inside then the outside arms…then the back.

baboon’s know this drill.

The inside arms were tough little suckers

There was webbing and stuffing and just stuff that wasn’t invited

to the friggin’ upholstery party. My inner baboon was rising to the surface again.

I think that is where I stopped.

Until I kept tripping over it day in and day out.

**It helps to upholster in a major family walkway it makes the whole process more dramatic. And hard to forget that you quit.

::Cheat alert::

**Here is my biggest and best cheat trick. Go to your nearest friendly upholsterer and bring them a yard of fabric and ask them to make double welting for you.

double welting is your friend. Double welting is hard to make on a regular machine.

I guessed at four yards, and had 6 inches to spare. fake it till you make it.

Double welting at my local upholsterer cost 5 bucks.

do it.

Then I just glued the precious welt right over the tacks and staples with a hot glue gun.

yeah. Hot glue gun. Who knew

double welting lady knew.

I used tacks at the top to hold the fabric better…

and decided to use decorative tacks on the linen pieces

to make up for allowing her butt to look big.

they are called a french chain glamorous, no? and come in a strip where you nail in every fourth tack. Much easier than trying to nail each one

find them here

but in many places you will need to nail each one in.

I had the pillow made from enhabiten before I even found the fabric. Cool,eh?

it’s filled with lavender and flax seed.

it’s heavy. It’s happy.

Psssst...Anon Susan...That pic above is for you.

Ole' fat ass is officially done.

kinda funky…but she’ll fit in this funky abode quite nicely.

DONE...give me a woofreakinhoo!

Milo and the Big Butt chair…

Big butt~ before

We’ve recently been bit by a bug…

Milo...

the world hopping millennium bug came to our casa via the post man

all the way from visiting Java Junie in Michigan

{Read about this little blog hopping bug

and his world adventureshere}

Right to work he went…The colorful little insect

finishing the Big Butt chair.

had to take off his handmade fur coat… it’s Florida for heaven’s sakes.

...little stuffed plumbers crack and all

Let me tell ya...

This little bug can haul hammer

Bigg Butt has two different fabrics

a linen{ish} on the outside and back…and

the tropical colored IKAT on the inside.

Thank Milo for the nail heads

Even bugs need 15 minute breaks

osha standards and all...

Whoa! maybe 15 second ones

adhd much, Milo man?

how much do you love that little handmade hat?

I am awaiting more nailheads…for the bottom the back…and then

the Bigg Butt will finally and happily be d o n e

wooooohoooo.

the D word.

{Pillow? You ask? had it made here}

Did you hear that Milo?

Milo?

Milo!?!

Not the big black dog cookies….

oooomph.

medic?!?

*Joining Susan for Metamorphis Monday...find some amazing before and after's Here*