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craftgrrlA few weeks ago, I bought some very ugly, dirty chairs from the Salvation Army with the intention of putting them in my small-ish kitchen. They were $12 for the pair, which, frankly, I felt to be quite steep. Look how ugly and filthy! Vinyl cushions! Ew. But they were nice and sturdy, and I liked the metal frame, so I took them home to fix them up.
This photo is pretty out of focus, but you can kind of see how dirty and rusty and gross these chairs were:
I went out looking for red upholstery fabric to look cute with my light green kitchen, but it was either impossible to find something decent, or ridiculously expensive. Luckily, I came across some adorable apple fabric that I fell in love with, and bought some of that. I also got some white glossy rust paint (holy CRAP, it took a lot of spray paint to get these chairs covered). A week with the swine flu later, and here are the repainted and recovered chairs!
The fabric close up:
Here, Bea Arthur faces the conundrum of how he will reach his food bowl while not having to stand up:
The piping around the cushions was a great challenge - I don't have a zipper or piping foot for my sewing machine, so I improvised by positioning my needle as close to the piping as I could, and pulling the piping under the foot at a 45 degree angle, which I'm sure wasn't great for my machine, but it did the trick, if not perfectly. You can see my uneven seams here and there, but overall they look fine.
I'm so happy with the way these turned out! Now I just need to find/revamp a small table to put between them, and I will have a lovely spot to sit and have my tea. I'm looking forward to having seating in the kitchen, as I often have someone in there while I am cooking, or wish there was a place to sit down while I peel potatoes and such.
This photo is pretty out of focus, but you can kind of see how dirty and rusty and gross these chairs were:
I went out looking for red upholstery fabric to look cute with my light green kitchen, but it was either impossible to find something decent, or ridiculously expensive. Luckily, I came across some adorable apple fabric that I fell in love with, and bought some of that. I also got some white glossy rust paint (holy CRAP, it took a lot of spray paint to get these chairs covered). A week with the swine flu later, and here are the repainted and recovered chairs!
The fabric close up:
Here, Bea Arthur faces the conundrum of how he will reach his food bowl while not having to stand up:
The piping around the cushions was a great challenge - I don't have a zipper or piping foot for my sewing machine, so I improvised by positioning my needle as close to the piping as I could, and pulling the piping under the foot at a 45 degree angle, which I'm sure wasn't great for my machine, but it did the trick, if not perfectly. You can see my uneven seams here and there, but overall they look fine.
I'm so happy with the way these turned out! Now I just need to find/revamp a small table to put between them, and I will have a lovely spot to sit and have my tea. I'm looking forward to having seating in the kitchen, as I often have someone in there while I am cooking, or wish there was a place to sit down while I peel potatoes and such.
