Newly Listed: Tree of Life Embroidered Ottoman

Olive wallpaper, Removable wall mural, Crow, Peel and stick, Raven decor, Leaves, Botanical, Peel and stick by marWALLous

Tree of Life Embroidered Ottoman, Hand carved wooden Furniture, Queen Anne Legs, Black, Green, Pink Pouf Bohemian Wooden Furniture by StarHomeStudio

Vintage Ornate Green Mirror late 1930's Wooden Frame Floral Frame Vintage reversed Painted Mirror by StarHomeStudio

Get the Look Vol.17

I love these wooden panels, it gives so much depth and warmth. But most are pretty much the same as they are new. We had a beautiful old chest, while the front was in pretty good condition with gorgeous hand-carved wood, the rest of the chest was made with cheaper wood and wasn't in good condition at all. So I removed the rest of the chest and made it ready for hanging. The original keyhole is perfect to hang it.

I love unusually shaped furniture pieces. The one on the top is a small new piece with fun shapes.
Our coffee table will fit much more stuff, plus it is an original mid-century piece made with reverse painted glass, bamboo and metal in a very cool shape.

Elephants in Hinduism and the Indian Culture are a symbol of intellectual strength and sturdy earthy mental strength. It is a sacred animal and is considered the representation or the living incarnation of Ganesha, the elephant-headed deity riding a mouse. Therefore there are many elephant sculptures from India in the shape of elephants, often very decorated. The one on the top is a beautiful new piece. The elephant available in our shop is from the 1970s entirely handmade.

Some collect teapots or teacups, but there are also tea stainer collections. Aren't these adorable?
We are selling an instant collection of vintage kitchen tin pieces.

I love the colors and quality of 1950s toys, the blue, turquoise, pink and red combo is still pretty today. We have a whole stash of old new stock handmade doll chairs from the 1950s, very primitive but pretty.

I love earthy handmade pottery, love the combination on these shelves with pottery, plants, wood and stones. I think this clay vase would fit right in.

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.

New Year, New Ideas

In case you have noticed, our Etsy shops have been closed for a while, we'll be back soon but need to put some things in order first to get back to normal.

In the mean time we are re-organizing our workspaces, and our home and also finishing projects that have been waiting for a while.

These chairs have been ongoing since Summer 2016!

For some reason they waited a long time to get all the attention they needed. We did peel off the old upholstery, repaired the skeleton and sanded the woodwork back in 2016 but after that we were not sure what to do with them.

Finally at the end of last year we had enough and I painted them white to have a plainer base. We then played around with embroideries and fabrics until we were satisfied. I then painted some little flowers to match the embroideries, varnished the paint work and they were finally ready to be reupholstered.

These chairs are very different than the usual chairs we have done and were challenging but finally after 1.5 years they are ready :)

The beautiful trim was a trim we bought last year in California and it matches perfectly.

They took a while but we are happy how they (finally) turned out :)
They'll be available at StarHomeStudio as soon as we reopen (which will be soon!).

From Wood to Furniture

I showed some pretty embroideries last time as a tiny sneak peak on the furniture piece that we were working on. Now it is time to show it all :)

Chairs are basically pieces of wood put together, without upholstery they are pretty ugly, the more they ar re-upholstered the more history you'll see. This one had still its original upholstery which was some weird green stuff that was falling apart, I unfortunately thought I had taken a picture for the before but found out too late that I had not...

After removing ugly brown paint and painting it black it needed new webbing and new foam before starting to make it pretty.

Funny enough it became green again, but a very different green than the original upholstery.

These geometric shapes are not fabric as you might rightfully think! It is done like tapestry knot by knot, a crazy amount of work and the fabric is in fact white which you do not see at all do to the embroidery work, I don't think you can have anyone have something like this made these days.

The staples at the front I covered with fabric covered wood cut to shape.

I usually sew the back fabrics sides by hand, so that you do not see anything, this times I used nails for a different finishing and as a bonus it went much quicker than sewing by hand.

The back, all ready :)

I just love how colorful and vibrant it turned out and I used the same nails at the front to cover the staples near the wooden feet.

Beside the green fabric and foam everything used had a previous life, which I always find satisfying.

The side flowers are also vintage embroidery, because a chair should be pretty from every side :)

This chair is available at StarHomeStudio among other handmade furniture.