Monday 18 June 2018

Hidden Beauty


It has been a while since we made our last big furniture piece.


This one was actually even worse with a horrible purple upholstery but I forgot to take a picture of it, I guess I wanted to get rid of that monstrous fabric asap.


After sanding, filling and painting its feet and making a new filling with fresh foam it already started to look better.


As we used a gorgeous vintage fabric we needed to be very careful before starting cutting the fabric, no room for error when your material is precious vintage handwoven fabric with hand embroidered flowers!



I got all giddy while making this, you can not not smile when you look at this chair :)


After all staple work was done it was time for the small finishing touches like blind stitching by hand for a smooth finishing. I prefer to do those outside for better light but miraculously we have been having rain these past few days (yaaay) so I did them in a funny way. Advantage when you work from home no need to get out of your comfy PJ's :)



Just some pretty trim for the front feet to cover the staples.




And she is ready!


My entire body aches, upholstery is hard work!



I love all the embroidered details!


This beautiful chair is available at StarHomeStudio among other unique furniture pieces.

6 comments:

  1. It turned out amazing! It is always nice to see you "save" the furniture.

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  2. You can send that one over too ;) Don't know if the purple fabric was terrible...but that yellowed rubber moss is awful too...reminds me of a sofa from my childhood at my aunt's place...eeeeek...

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  3. Gorgeous! Always excited to see your furniture posts! :)

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  4. What a great job. And the fabric is absolutely charming!

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  5.   I'm just wondering how it can be sent by mail? Can you scare the postal workers?

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    1. With FedEx, it is too big for normal postal service.

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