Pick this faux bamboo cabinet up...

Oh I wished I could convince Beau boyfriends boss to send Alvaro out to the States as an expat for work, so I could score at craigslist for these beauties. Will someone at Florida (Loake Worth) pick up this Beau faux bamboo cabinet?

Imagine this cabinet to be painted in yellow, or white or any color will do!

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It´s got so much potential. If you are the lucky one to pick it up, please let me know!
Good luck and Craigslist is amazing....

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.

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.

pre-view my new faux bamboo chairs

During my trips to Holland I enjoy furniture shopping, the only bad thing about it is that it is impossible to take large objects with me on the airplane, so I have to stock up the things I have bought and wait either we come by car ourselves or family comes over to Spain.

These chairs were love on first sight when I first saw them on the Jonathan Adler website, and later on other decoration blogs. I got excited when I had the oportunity to purchased these chairs in Holland in a vintage/antique store a few months ago. They were painted in a strange colour of green and a ugly flower pint fabric, but I looked beyond that I some big potential in them. Now my parents got me suprised because they delivered me the chairs profesionally painted and upholstered in my favorite fabric!

I love how they look right now, and now i know why my mom investigated me wich colours I wanted to use for my chairs, she got it secretly done instead.

That´s love.

I love bamboo

Once starting decorating your house you will never finish. It´s like Gaudi´s Sagrada Familia church in Barcelona who will never be finished.
It´s good to buy some basic furniture in the beginning of your first place, then in time you add all loved finds and things to decorate your house to give it that personal style.
Since a year I have been coveting anything faux bamboo in the Hollywood regency style. So I was thrilled that my mum told me she found two faux bamboo arm chairs.
They will arrive to my house next week and I will be painting and upholstering them.
Hope soon to post some pictures of the chairs being painted.