My client has had this chair forever and it has been reupholstered quite a few times. This time she decided to have it slipcovered in a chocolate brown cotton fabric. We did a box pleat skirt all the way around the bottom and let the legs show. She said she’ll probably paint the legs cream to create more of a contrast with the brown fabric. I loved the idea, I am sure it’ll look great.
Chair Before
Chair After
Close up
another closeup of the skirt.
My client was debating on choosing a different fabric for this ottoman, because she wasn’t sure about the stripes. So I held off on starting it for a few days, to see what she decided. As I was working one day, it dawned on me that we could do 4 triangles and sew and X seam and make the stripes match up to look like a square. I loved the idea and was excited to share it with my client….she said she trusted me and to go for it.
We used the dark brown stripe in the fabric for the piping, and decided to make the very center part of the dark stripe rather than the light section. The ottoman was perfectly square, so our plan worked and I love the way it turned out….stripes with out being stripes.
Ottoman before. Leather, but she wanted to bring in some more color since the sectional was also leather.
After
Close up of after showing the X seam from corner to corner
Showing the whole room with other pillows on the couch that we did.
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A couple weeks ago, we decided to take on reinsulating underneath the cabin. We wanted to get this done before winter to help with the cold. We brought up our boys and three of their friends, so 6 boys in all were brought on this journey (age 10 and under).
Heber was nice enough to do the demo on his own. He tore down the old plywood, took out all the old insulation that the mice had gotten to. He knows I don’t do mice very well…or actually at all. Once he had it all torn out, he calked in between every single floor plank. Then he put up plastic in between every joist.
Then this is when I stepped into help after running errands to buy more supplies and trying to keep all the boys fed and under control. They spent most of their time building a fort off in the trees.
I cut all the new insulation and helped put it up, then we had to put new plywood up to cover the insulation. Then Heber foamed every crack and joint, so that no little critters could crawl into the new insulation.
Here are some of the boys that came. So now that winter is going to be here next week, we are officially done with the outside projects until next year.
Next year we plan to put on a new roof and build stairs into the grade with railroad ties. We will also do the handrail on the deck.
This year our outside projects were
1) deck
2)getting waterline buried
3)grading to make some flat areas
4)seeding and laying hay so we’ll have growth next year…instead of dirt
5)reinsulating underneath the cabin