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Chairs, Ottomans, and Dining Chairs

March 14, 2014 by Shelley

My client picked up these two chairs and ottomans for $25/pair. They were from a Marriott Hotel that was replacing their furniture. WHAT A DEAL!!! She chose a white duck cloth to freshen them up.

Chair/ottoman—BEFORE

AFTER–

Close up of arm

I loved her antique round table and chandelier! I love rustic wood pieces. The white contrasted nicely!

We also did 2 arm chairs and 4 side dining chairs. These required some thought… she sent me an inspiration pic, so I knew it was possible, I just had to figure out how to get a skirt on the back with the wood piece down the center of the chair.

INSPIRATION PIC–

AFTER–SIDE CHAIR–my solution was to run the piping on the outside of the posts, attach skirt to piping. Then use velcro to attach the sections to either side of the vertical wood piece.

AFTER–Arm chair–same idea–velcro around the outside edge, but I had to do velcro along the sides as well between the back post and where the arm attaches to the seat. This way once the velcro is detached, the whole cover lifts up and over the wood back.

SIDE NOTE– Brainstorming some new ideas. I am located in Utah.

1) 2 day workshop— day1- slipcover main body of a chair
day2- skirt, cushion, and pillow. 4-6 students/session

2) Job shadowing- come to work with me at my studio for 3 days (slipcovering, appts out, photography, blog, quickbooks, etc) 2-3 students/ session. This would be geared towards someone that has already started or wants to start a slipcover business.

3) Skype mentoring–sign up for the day you have a similar item and follow along in real time.

Tell me your thoughts! What interests you the most, and what would you seriously consider signing up for?

Plaid Menswear Chair

February 11, 2014 by Shelley

My designer client wanted to redo this chair for her man client. It was his grandparents chair. Julie was redoing his bachelor pad and wanted to use some sentimental items.

Chair–Before–worn mint velvet.

Chair–AFTER–Brushed Menswear plaid with contrasting navy piping to frame it and make it “manly”. The brushed fabric made for a beautiful cozy chair.

Plaid is the most difficult to match–you need to try as much as possible to match it both ways! I offer tips on how to match plaid in my “Get it Covered” Advanced Slipcovering guide .

I loved that we were able to bring this chair back to life. Julie always picks out great fabrics!

Side Note—I don’t have any! Just enjoying life back at a normal pace!

Pair of Striped Chairs

January 16, 2014 by Shelley

For the past month, I have been super motivated to finish my “Get it Covered” Advanced Slipcovering Guide. I have spent numerous days taking pics and editing. Today I finished my hard edit! I’ll just need to run through it one more time and then it’ll be READY! I am super excited to get this available. I have been working on it, on and off for the past 9 months. It should be available by Monday!

56 or so pages of tips and tricks on skirts, wing backs, sectionals, hemming options, curved inside back items, parson chairs, scrolled back, telephone arms, english rolled arms, arm pads, t-cushions, etc.!

Here’s a sneak peak of one of the pages!

My client had these pair of chairs that were the same, but had been upholstered in different fabrics. She wanted to make them a pair again. They had tufted back cushions, that I had to remove first.

Chairs–BEFORE

To cut off attached cushions–cut on cushion side of the seam, so you aren’t left with exposed springs that you will need to patch up.

Chairs—AFTER – She wanted a second set of cushions out of the floral to mix it up at some point. We decided to keep the band out of the stripe, to tie it all in.

This fabric was a pretty heavy denim, so I did a 1.5″ blind hem on the skirt.

I covered the back cushions and decided to keep them “pillow style” with kiss pleats instead of boxing them.

Here’s another job I dropped off last month. I was pretty proud of the matching job! I debated centering the large floral on both cushions–but it was too overwhelming since the cushions were petite. Ultimately, we decided to center the large floral on the back cushion and let the print flow down to the seat.

My client was very happy to get rid of the old hawaiian palm leaf print that was on them.

Side Note–

I just received some rug pads from www.rugpadusa.com. The quality was great! If you need rug pads check them out! These are great for those flat weave rugs that tend to shift and slide around and don’t have much substance to them. They have different thicknesses of pad.