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14 September 2010

One Fun Chair

I might have mentioned a few times before that I have a wonderful, helpful, hard-working husband who typically helps me execute all my crazy ideas and home projects. For the time being, he is in the process of building a few walls to make our basement user-friendly for children, so I flew solo on this particular project.

I found this lovely chair at the thrift store for $10. I have to admit I was initially intimidated by the whole upholstery situation. It was a bit more involved than my previous projects, but I figured there was no time like the present for learning something new! And, for $10, I could not pass up the opportunity to have a new-to-us seat in the family room.

Hello, sticky arms and worn-dirty-who-knows-where-this-chair-has-been gold velour!

I stripped the chair of it's dirty fabric and sanded down the wood. A few coats of spray paint, some fresh foam (do you know how expensive foam is? Pricey stuff! Thank goodness for a well-timed 50% off sale) and some lovely zebra fabric all came together quite nicely to give us this little beauty...

I used teal trim for a little added flair. Our new seat is actually very comfortable, and I love the personality it brings to our room.
I did take about 47 pictures of the entire process, so if I get so brave you might just see a tutorial for this project sometime in the future. For now I'm off to make some pillows to complete my autumnal decor. I can't wait to show you the rest of the room all decked-out for fall!

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11 comments:

  1. First: my mom has this exact same chair. (Exact, minus the transformation.)

    Second: I think I saw this chair at a thrift store recently and almost bought it except I, too, was scared of upholstery. Glad you got it!

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  2. Amazing make over, wanna come over and fix one of my crackly crispy chairs with "good bones"? :) Your new chair is very fresh and modern.

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  3. I have one of these chairs ready to be made new & beautiful! I really like the colors you picked out!

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  4. Awesome job!! It looks great there in your family room. So much talent you have!!!

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  5. that is adorable! i love the mix of patterns you have in that room- i came "this close" to getting that same rug from pb! :) what a fantastic makeover- thanks for linking to my first party!

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  6. Beautiful! It came out very nicely!

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  7. CUTE! Love the funky-ness :) and get brave...lets see those pics!

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  8. I love how it turned out! I too am a huge fan of these types of chairs, I lve to see everyones different takes on them!

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  9. Great job! I'm attempting my first chair as well
    http://btweenblueandyellow.blogspot.com/2010/09/meant-to-be.html

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  10. OMG I just bought 2 of these chairs at GW. $10.50 each and fabric is yellow floral. Can you share how you did the upholstery part? and did you spray paint?? thanks, Lisa

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  11. I seriously passed up a chair like this at a junk store this weekend. It was $8 i wanted to redo it but i have absolutely NO room for it...im kicking myself in the butt now that i see my vision in your chair! Good job!

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