Just a Touch of Upholstery

A while back, I posted about this amazing chair that had been gifted to us, and how it was WAY TOO SCARY for me to upholster on my own, so we hired out.

I don’t know if every old-house person is this way, but we have so many chairs. SO MANY. It’s rather obscene, actually. Once my dear friend Jason went around and tested every chair in the house and gave reviews of each one on Facebook. It was wildly accurate, and hilarious.

This studio of mine is going to have FIVE chairs in it. Five. Two desk chairs, two seating area chairs, and a chair at the sewing table. It feels like nonsense, but I assure you, it looks fine. (Also, “It Feels Like Nonsense” would have been the name of this blog, had I named it today.)

The second chair in the seating area is this Eastlake chair. Initially, my plan was to reupholster it, and unlike the desk in the last post, this wasn’t a lazy decision. Once I had it in the room and saw it with the wallpaper, I knew the original fabric was perfection.

The problem is that it was missing trim in several places. I had already planned on upholstering it in a pink fabric with pink trim, so I decided to use the trim and replace that. I tacked a couple of loose spots, but this was really more “glueing” than “upholstery.”

I am SO GLAD I went with my gut and kept this fabric.

So, now I have a whole chair’s worth of fun pink fabric. WHAT TO DO.

I had this little thrift store find of an ottoman.

I actually love the elephants a lot.

But, not going to keep them.

When I took the elephants off and set them free, I found this fabric.

And THIS ALSO MATCHES THE ROOM. I started to become convinced that the universe did not want me to use my pink fabric.

Nah. I’m using it. It’s so fun and looks like VELVET DONUTS.

This was easy breezy to redo.

I had a couple of trims, and actually did an instagram poll to see which one I should pick because I was conflicted. It was absolutely no help.

I went pink.

So sweet!

My original plan was just to use the same rolling chair between the two desks. But Doug’s father gave us a few family pieces, including this chair.

I thought this would be great with the desk from the last post.

I decided to use the same pink fabric (since I have plenty) for this chair. This was just a seat cushion redo, so it would also be easy. (Manager Oakley wants you to look at how pretty that flower carving is!)

If Jason was reviewing this chair, no doubt it would be similar to this.

This is underneath the cushion – both the handwriting and the text say ” 171 Wal No1 Seat” – which I have not investigated futher.

So. Many Nails. I’m a big fan of leaving the original underneath new, unless there’s a reason to disturb it. So this stayed as is.

The Venn Diagram of being good at wrapping presents and being good at wrapping upholstery fabric is a circle.

Easy peasy.

Done!

And here’s the seating area, with the two chairs!

And the next time Jason comes to visit, I’ll have him review these for you, and I promise I’ll post an update!