Another job I forgot to document during the hectic travel of February-March, 2011. This pair was once covered in peach fabric with tiny polka dots. The client chose a rich pink linen to bring these chairs out of the 1980s.
I love doing two identical chairs, since then I can out a “before” and “after” chair [...]
Back in February (and March…and April…) I did a lot of traveling thanks to some cheap airline tickets. It was great, but the downside is that I did not have any time to post about my finished upholstery.
This is a channel back barrel chair that I reupholstered in fabric from Pottery Barn called French Stripe. [...]
Yesterday marked the finish of a long stretch of back to back upholstery jobs. It started just before the December holidays and kept on going through yesterday! Now I have a chance to post all the pictures of the pieces, so without further ado…
The Red Velvet Chairs
When the clients contacted me about reupholstering these chairs, [...]
I just finished this chair for a client. The fabric was once a chenille stripe (see below) which had become dirty very quickly. Now it’s in a canvas, with the stripes woven into the material.
Here was the chair before the reupholstery:
But even with the dirt on the fabric, the foam was in decent condition. Below, [...]
You guys might remember a project I had going here, when they were just stripped and sanded. Now they’ve been stained, varnished, and reupholstered!
The fabric is a cream colored micro-suede or crushed velvet. This was my first project with such a fabric and it was quite perplexing, since it didn’t act like other material in [...]
I recently was hired by a client to reupholster an arm chair which had seen better days with some lovely Jacobean floral fabric with a faded urban twist. The foam and batting were in excellent condition so I did not need to touch any of it, although I did need to sew the arms’ fabric [...]