I just finished one of a pair of wingback chairs, and I couldn’t wait until the second was finished to show the results. Here is the pair with the original upholstery (mauve velvet):
And below is the first finished one, covered with red striped fabric with roosters woven into the fabric. The client has an almost [...]
I recently finished a loveseat over at Studio Juno. Working in Leah’s studio was fantastic, since it is airy and has beautiful views of our neighborhood. The loveseat was a sweet yellow before the reupholstery, but parts were faded and the buttons were torn and rusted. Also, like many pieces older than 30 years, the [...]
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I recently visited family for three weeks and during that time I worked on some slipper chairs for a friend. These two were in bad shape when I got hold of them, with one of the springs coming out of the bottom of one and constant dust and degrading batting falling through the torn cambric [...]
This has been a busy two months. Almost on the brink of too busy, it’s starting to lighten up. One of the projects that has been falling to the wayside amid all the paying gigs, time sensitive matters, and day to day necessities is my couch.
Here it was before I started.
It was poorly manufactured and [...]
A client commissioned me to reupholster and refinish the legs on this ottoman and chair set. I only sanded and repainted the legs, now knowing that the qualities of wood underneath the “stain” or paint from the manufacturer may be extremely difficult to restain (see here for the lesson I learned on that subject).
Here are [...]
I just finished a 89.5 inch long (24 inch wide) cushion for a client, which is actually 7.4′. It’s a lot longer than I had pictured in my head. It doesn’t fit in some of the rooms of my house!
It is, obviously, a directional pattern, but the pattern runs along the length (the selvage) of [...]
DISCLAIMER: This fabric is not the most tasteful thing ever created, I will admit. I got it as part of a lot sale (at the Saint Sophia’s Greek Festival!), about 15 yards of assorted upholstery fabric for $15. And this was part of it.
But I have a swivel chair that needed a new look, so [...]
Now I think I know why I have the Johnny Cash song “I Got Stripes” running through my head.
This was the chair before it’s recovery:
It was originally made a few years after I was born, so it had been wearing that blue velvet since the mid 80s. I thought that the style of the front [...]
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 never thought that these things would come together. I mean, recycling and upholstery go hand in hand (reupholstery) and gardening and recycling are common. But how does upholstery and gardening fit together?
Well, if you run out of containers to grow your seedlings/plants like I did, and you want to use a tin can (like [...]