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Enjoy your weekend luvs! I leave you with this pretty room with a few of my favorite things, a branch table, volu spa candle, flowers, sunburst mirror, white cowhide, vintage upholstered armchair...love!

Upholstery projects

The first post I placed on my blog a few months ago, was about two faux bamboo armchairs that I had and wanted to upholster with fabric cross section corcoal from Calicocorners, well it´s finally done!!!
                                                                This is the result:

i have 2 of these armchairs, They look fresh and clean. I do have to repair the

legs with white paint, during transport they got damaged.

                                                     I do love the way it is upholstered.

This is a picture of what it was before

Another project that I don´t have a before picture of ( I am such a quick DIY-er i always

hurry up to get it going that I forget to take pictures of it before)

Anyway try to imagine a chair with simple white fabric.

And look what it is now:

Ain´t it pretty, this upholstered Louis armchair with the nailhead trim?

This chair I bought when I was 18 for my first apartment and fabric at a market back in Amsterdam.

I have no idea where this goes, for now I will leave it it my office untill I find the perfect place for it.

Now rember my first upholstery project I did about a black wing back chair with white piping?

read about it here

When I bought that chair at the thriftshop, my mother in law found it silly and dirty, she

doesn´t understand that with upholstering you make it ´´new´´ again.

My mother in law throws away furniture, and she never ever had entered a thriftshop in her life.

When I got the wingbackchair delivered to my office, she changed opinion and told me she

wanted to have that chair for herself, so it went to her house.

I have found, YES FOUND 2 beautifull, heavy and superior quality armchairs a few weeks ago

on the street near my house!

(again, don´t have before pictures, the fabric was worn only)

and got them reupholstered in black with white piping again.

I did liked that look.

Now these stay in my office for when I have visitors.

Those legs are so detailed, they look like lion paws.

The upholsterer was so sweet to make me 2 matching pillows as a gift.

Ok this is not such a good picture, but I wanted to show you the height of my office, do you

see the curtain behind the chairs? Behind the curtain is where I keep stock and other stuff that I don´t want to see all the time. This curtain is another DIY project made on the sewing machine by my mother and my father

hang up the rod. The fabric was purchased at IKEA and it´s Gunvor.

I did all the chairs at one and got a discount, but even so my DIY budget decreased, now I have to

go get back to work, but will have a smile on my face seeing these pretty chairs.

white piped upholstered wing back chair

I fould this wing back chair in a local triftshop, it had such a sad look and the colour and fabrick were awfull, but i could see through it and imagined the beauty of this chair upholstered in black fabrick with white piping.
It took a few weeks before it was ready, but it was worth the wait, now the chair is in my office.
This is how the chair looked before:

and after:

Other inspiration:

source: 3 men and a lady

The inspiration came from:http://www.cococozy.com/search?updated-max=2010-09-07T06%3A37%3A00-07%3A00&max-results=10

p.s. my mom asked me if I knew why these kind of chairs have these 2 bulky parts on top of the chair. I told her that I thought it was for sleeping, so you could rest your head against it. But no, she told me that  the houses many years ago were not isolated and it was often cold and to avoid being bothered by the cold draft they designed them like they are.

Learning something everyday.