I made it back from my trip to California…the beach was great, I haven’t slept that good in weeks. My mind was free from all thoughts and worries, and the sound of the waves helped too, as well as my two oldest boys sleeping in their own tent.

Anyhow…these chairs were for a client in Park City. Her designer chose a neutral chenille fabric, and we kept the skirt height the same.

Sorry more pics in the driveway, I have been swamped, so when possible Heber has been doing my drop offs for me…I can’t expect him to take my pictures for me too.

Chair before

Chair after

I decided to do a double row of piping down the arms…because the original lines would only work for upholstry. I like the way it turned out. The fabric was a little thick, so I wasn’t sure how it was going to lay…but it layed smooth and hugged the lines of the chair.

Here you can see the double piping on the arms

I did a set of them…so here you can see them side by side after and before

Here’s the original arm…that wasn’t going to work for me with a slipcover, see how it’s piped around the arm about 3 inches down?

This was for a repeat client…I think the first couch I did for her was 7- 8 years ago..and we’ve done some other things in between, she just moved into a new house up in the avenues in SLC. So it was time to redo a few things. I think these chairs were from her mother in law. Anyhow, she chose a great paisley fabric to replace the black floral.

Chair Before

Chair after

Of course I had to do some matching….

This couch was for a client that I originally slipcovered about 8-9 years ago. She was ready for a change from the olive green chenille damask.

She also wanted to change the couch a bit too. She wanted to go from a two cushion seat to a one cushion seat. She also wanted to change the two back cushions to 3 Euro size pillows. She also decided to elminate the skirt and let the legs show.

Here’s the picture of the before…the seat covers were already off when I got there. I gave her homework (hand sew the two seat cushions together with upholstry thread or dental floss). Then I would batting wrap the large single cushion and put the new cushion cover on. She also removed the skirt underneath the slipcover to show off the legs.

Here you can see how she hand sewed the seat cushions together. I thought this would work best to keep from seeing a divet in the middle of the single cushion.

Here is the after. She was worried about the Euro pillows getting saggy (they are down filled) and being able to feel the frame of the couch through them. So I batting wrapped the pillows 1 1/2 times each to make them full and thicker. I thought the single seat cushion thing worked out beautifully! No divet!

Front of the arm with the exposed legs.

The couch in the room.

Close up to show the chenille texture.

Side note— Here we are at Luke’s kindergarten graduation.