This client fell in love with this fabric and hoped we would have enough. There was only 5.5 yds of the paisley, so she bought some solid brown velvet fabric to use as the piping and anywhere else we needed.

The chair before was muslin covered and was meant to be slipcovered.

Chair–AFTER—I don’t know how…but we had enough fabric to get the chair and ottoman out of the paisley. I did the decking under the cushion on the chair out of the solid brown. It also helped that we didn’t do skirts on either of them.

Front of arm.

The upper back was rounded so I “boxed” it along the top and did piping on both edges.

I also ran piping down the inside arm seam. The paisley chenille fabric shaped and bent really well on all the curves.

SIDE NOTE #1
We headed to St. George and Vegas for Spring break. We hiked at Snow Canyon. The boys loved climbing on all the rocks. On one of the hikes there were pioneer names written on the rocks out of axle grease.

One of my boys asked,  “Why did they write their names on the rock?”….my reply, “Why did you carve your name in the kitchen table?”

Here’s a pic of two of my boys.

Top of the hike. Me with the three boys.

The boys were obsessed with trying to catch lizards on our hikes….Here’s a pic of them trying to catch one. This pic makes me laugh really hard!

Besides hiking we went to the pool three times a day! The boys love to swim. Perfect spring break!

SIDE NOTE #2

Last time we were at the cabin…the boys made some swings underneath the cabin. They made three….one for each of them. They loved them.

They also made some bunkbeds in their fort at the cabin….pretty cool huh? They still need to finish their fort and get a roof on it.

OH My….Have my tastes changed a bit in the past few years. I found these old pics on my blog….

BEFORE…..My front room without the slipcovers.

Here was my first look…back in the day when I was loving shabby chic and ruffles.

Here was my second look…I switched out to menswear type slipcovers and exposed the legs. This pic was taken at holiday time…hence the red pillows. I am usually not a red girl.

Notice the blue paint and chair rail that we removed. I also sold my wall tree (coat rack), which just looked junky all the time. Somehow our house doesn’t have a hall closet.

MY AFTER and final look! Gray and white with a few pops of green (my favorite color). The green fabric on the pillow, I bought last year when I went to North Carolina to visit Gina from Slipcover Chic.

I found the LARGE mirror at IKEA in the As- is department for $90. I used my Wall Tree proceeds to pay for it. I was hoping it would work and wasn’t too big…luckily I was right, because you can’t return As-is items.

I brought in a dresser from the garage that was holding the boys baseball gloves and bats. It had paint splattered across the front of the drawers. I took some sand paper and sanded it off and then wiped some furniture oil over it. 10 min. job…and it turned out great.

With all the straight lines on the wall and chevron pillows, I felt the white chairs need some scrolly type fabric on the pillows. Made up these white and gray pillows with no piping (knife edge).

I switched my bedroom curtains with the front room curtains…the white worked better in here.

I also spray painted the legs on all the furniture white. The legs seemed to disappear into the slipcovers….I wanted them to POP!

I switched out my ottoman for a large rustic trunk that I had up in my bonus room. I got this for babysitting when I was 16. The lady I baby sat for volunteered at the local thrift store. I saw it in her garage and told her how much I liked it….next time I babysat she gave it to me as payment.

I picked up the green matelesse throw blanket at a thrift store about 6 months ago. I bought it because of the color and figured I could cut it up and make something out of it…..NOPE, I kept it just as is.

I also swiped the lamp from downstairs and put a barrel shade on it.

I am learning the art of accessorizing….last week I headed to Hobby Lobby with an old college friend that was in town. I threw anything that I liked in my cart, and decided I could return anything that didn’t work. I was loving the metal industrial type stuff, and rustic items, and of course silver and green.

On my drive home from Hobby Lobby, I texted my running partner, Camille to come help me accessorize. I am still not very good at the small things. I know what I like, but pulling it together is sometimes difficult. The dresser accessories are my FAVORITE!!! I got everything for 50% off. The metal items went on sale this week, so I went back and got a price adjustment. (If items go on sale the next week, you can take them back with your receipt and get the difference back).

My client had this pair of red checked chair….a gentleman’s (larger framed) and a ladies chair. She was ready for a a change.

Ladies chair— BEFORE

Gentleman’s chair— BEFORE—-check out those HUGE “telephone” arms. At least that’s what I call them…they look like the old school phones.

AFTER—- She chose a stunning tan linen fabric that had a black flocked velvet damask print on it.

Gentleman’s Chair— AFTER

Ladies chair— AFTER

Close up of “telephone” arms

I did the sides on the outside all in one piece, so I wouldn’t have to match up the pattern from the outside wing to the under arm. I had to put pins above the repeat for placement, because I couldn’t see the pattern from the wrong side of the fabric. SO I had to go off my pins and hope it all worked out.

I sewed a 1.5″ casing around the bottom edge, and then fed a rope through pulled it tight and tied it to the back leg. This is a great solution to help keep the slipcover tight and in place….but time consuming if you have to refeed the rope through if you are going to be washing often….. These will be dry clean only, with the velvet flocking, so it was a great option for these.

Close up of casing….with a couch… you’d do two casings on the front and back sides a few inches apart, so you can figure 8 the rope through. My client showed me this casing idea off another slipcover she had made in Virginia….I loved it!