Matteo´s chair

Yesterday I had a busy day in Madrid visiting customers, had no time to post sorry.
I am trying to travel as much as possible now and get everything done for work, because the bump is growing and soon I will not be able to travel.
A year ago my mom and me we found this little childrens chair over at a local triftshop, and I knew I had to have it. Now I had the best excuse to get it upholstered for the nursery, they delivered it today at my office, can´t wait to see it in the nursery.
The fabric is calico corners diamante, and I ordered a few more buttons on it, this is the after:

           The before was a very ugly color, but sometimes you have to look through it:

pictures taken with my iphone

So what do you think of Matteo´s chair?

Loods 5 - A dutch interior stylist´s heaven

Loods 5 is one of my favorite places in Holland to buy furniture, they have almost anything, all diferent styles, from nursery´s to kitchens, you name it, they have it.

Here is a movie that gives you an impression how big this shop is. Try to see it without the music (you can hear the man breathing- ugh, and I hope this rollercoaster way of filming doesn´t make you dizzy)

The man filming should have been pushed around in one of those shopping carts for the movie not to been so bouncy. Well I hope you liked your Dutch shopping experience.

Here are a few online pieces of furniture that I liked...I warn you many chairs, chairs and chairs

                                                                            Chair Nicole

                                                                   DSR Eames chair

                                                               Xavier Puchard chair

                                                              Eames rocking chair

                                                                  Gringo Side chair

                                                                             Brussels rack

                                                                         Bety Kitchen unit

Time 1 industrial lamp

If you move to Holland, go and visit Loods 5 

spotted fabric

The talented lady Angela, from the painted house, DIY upholstered 2 chairs with spotted fabric, and they look so good!




before:


Lately I have spotted, spotted fabric many times. I like it a lot it gives swoon to the decor.
I have to admit that Angela´s vignette is lovely, the way everything is arranged.
The spotted fabric reminded me of the post I have read at little green notebook,
about the leopard pattern ¨les Touches¨ from Brunswig and fils.

before and after

I did find a before picture of my 2 found armchairs.It was taken in front of the place where I got them upholstered. As you can see I was choosing fabric, and I also liked the circle black one.
But I went for the black with the white piping as that can be used even in 10 years from now, it´s ageless.
So here is the before:

and after:

In yesterday´s post you can see more pictures.

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.

Little nook

via little green note book
Such a cute way to make an empty corner fun an funcional.
Love the black and the white stripes and the STOKKE highchair, wich has a great design
and grows with your child.

Jonathan Adler´s chair

In the december issue of AD magazine, they published about Jonathan Adler and Simon Doonan´s  apartment. There was one sole chair in his apartment that caught my eye. I tried to find it at his webshop but he does´t sell that chair, but I did find it at Ebay.
It´s called the Brass Chiavari Side accent chair Hollywood Regency.

sorry jonathan, for the bad quality picture I took of you with my iphone, but you can see that chair on the right.

Bid on this chair at Ebay

This exact same chair and it´s for sale for $ 49,99 plus shipping.

I have no idea what this chair normally cost´s but If you can buy it at this price it´s a steal.

It´s sooo elegant, and you only need one of this. I can imagine this chair anywhere in the house.

They only ship to the US, so go and get that chair!

Buy this room from Ebay

This was one of the first pictures I came across and stared at it a few minutes.
I have no I dea at wich blog I found it, and can´t read the link, if it´s yours please let me know.
I tried to assamble this room together with pieces I have found at ebay, If you like hem, go bid on them!

Quatrefoil mirror

                                                           paint this lantern black maybe?

It´s not the same, but it has potential if you paint his baby and use the right fabric Antique Bergere chair

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.