This client was ready for a change!!! Her designer jumped at the chance to redo these hunter green wingback chairs. They chose a neutral lighter weight chenille for the chairs and accented them with a steel blue chenille pillow that we put a boxpleat ruffle on.

Her ottoman was a great find on KSL.com (like craigslist) for $50. It was a bit too tall so she removed the wheels. That is why the skirt is flared out in the before picture. I then cut off the skirt and slipcovered it in some cheetah chenille fabric. I decided to clean up the lines and did a band around the top and copied the original skirt that pleated every 13″ all the way around.

Wingback chair BEFORE

Ottoman….BEFORE

AFTER…the set of wingback and the round cheetah ottoman. The fabric was pretty thick on the ottoman, so the tufting didn’t really show through. If it did…we were going to lay a thin piece of batting down before we put the slipcover on.

Close up of chair …..and look at the boxpleat ruffle on the pillow.

Another after shot

Front of arm

Closer up of ottoman.

I love how the room turned out! The pillows and the ottoman finished it off for me.

Don’t forget my DVD giveway is still going on until March 31st…we are in second place and need to pull ahead by Thursday night. (We are trying to win a free Ragnar Relay team…so come “like” my pic on facebook and I’ll enter you in my giveaway). Here is the Slipcover DVD giveaway link. Remember you get an entry for every person you get to “like” my photo as well.

Janet over at the Empty Nest did a little write up of her experience making her first slipcover with the help of my DVD. She’s a great story teller…so go check out her amazing blog!

This client had a room full of darling antique furniture, that she was covering up with quilts. Some of the pieces were quite worn, and she wanted to protect them from getting worse with her cats. She picked up 30 yds of cream duck cloth from Walmart for $5/yd and prewashed it all. Then I came and fit the couch and picked up the two chairs.

1st chair BEFORE. I loved all the wood work on this chair. The fabric was quite worn and thread bare in spots.

Couch BEFORE.

Couch and Chair #1 AFTER. I did a pleat skirt on the couch that goes all one way, and I was able to leave an opening to show off the wood arms on the chair. We chose to do no skirt on the chair and show off the legs.

Couch AFTER

Close up of Chair #1 exposing the wood arm (piped the opening) and the wood legs.

AFTER chair #1. I just ended the slipcover with piping and no skirt.

AFTER Chair #2. We chose to do a short pleat skirt that pleats all one way. This gives you a similar look to boxpleating all the way around, but it takes alot less time. Therefore less labor cost.

This chair was for one of my designer clients….which she was doing for one of her clients. I love doing slipcovers for her, because she always chooses amazing fabric. This fabric is orange with an embroidered wedding ring pattern in white.