We recently moved and a family member gave us some extra furniture to take up space in the playroom/family room of our new space. Over the holidays we needed additional seating and carried this little lovely upstairs...
Now to be fair, it wasn't in this bad of shape when we were given the chair. What happens in the playroom can be scary and its an enter at your own risk type of place. This chair didn't stand a chance. However, once it was upstairs we realized it was quite comfortable and add a nice conversation area in the corner of the living room. So, with the idea of not much more harm could come to this chair, I jumped right in and here is the journey...
I found the process of taking apart the chair helpful when I started to recover. It was actually way more simple than I thought it would be...
And the chair looked even scarier with all of its clothes off...
My biggest fear was actually covering the large back, because there were very few areas in the back that I could actually staple the fabric to secure...
However, the hardest part was the arms, because I really hadn't planned that part out very well, and didn't plan on sewing the cover....
Here is the finished chair from the side...
From the back...
And finally from the front...It was a long 3 days, along with two monsters fighting strep throat and the stomache flu at the same time. However, its the perfect reading chair and is so much fresher looking. I still need to run the steamer over the fabric to get a few wrinkled areas out! The best part of the whole transformation was that is cost just over $30...its drop cloth fabric from Lowe's and decorative nail tacks from JoAnn's.
Tell me what you thinking and what might have made it better!
I also linked to my first linky parties be sure to check them out!
BTW, how do you get the button to pop up?
