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.

Calico Corners fabrics

During my vacation in the states last month, I was very happy to be able to vistit this beautifull store for fabrics called Calico Corners. I have to admit that here in Spain we have many fabric stores, but 98% of the fabrics are so classical or ugly. For me Calico Corners was a breath of fresh air to find graphical kind of prints. I have made a purchase of 3 fabrics at Calico corners for some upholstering proyect in my house.

If you visit the Calico corners website you can download a 20 dollar discount coupon and print it out.

I have to admid that they give the best service ever!

Cross section charcoal was a steel at 11 dollars a yard. Its even more prettier in real! I want to use this fabric for the bamboo armchairs.

This is Diamante in color seamist, probably I will use this to upholster a childrens armchair or make nice pillow.

This is Jafar sunbrella, it was the most expensive of the three, but o so worth it.

I would like to use this fabric for my headboard. In the store they had an ottoman in this fabric, it was gorgeous.

I hope to post pictures of our apartment any time soon, but it looks like its going to be a long proyect before we are anytime near to take pictures.