Couch—BEFORE—it had seen better days….worn and dirty, but AWESOME lines and comfortable.

Couch—AFTER–we just used the vintage quilt on the inside back and a cream canvas everywhere else. I was able to get 4 pillows out of the quilt as well. I had to work around bleach spots and make sure the pattern was centered. They turned out great though!

She had the most amazing house full of yardsale finds. She goes to yardsales every Saturday—jealous!

I did 2.75″ pleat ruffle with 2″ between pleats with 1.5″ kickback. The canvas was pretty thick, so I couldn’t self line the pleat ruffle. I did a .75″ blind hem instead.

 Close up of quilt. The quilt gave it a great texture and character to a plain cream slipcover. She said, “It turned out better than what I was expecting!” YAY!!! Bringing things back to life and making them beautiful makes me so HAPPY…like really HAPPY!

 The lighting wasn’t the best today inside (cloudy and rainy), so I switched to my 50mm lens (close up lens that lets in more light) and was able to get some decent pics. Her house was too beautiful to not get good pics. I love her two new blue chairs with cane backs that she got for $10!

 Here is the wall opened up! LOVE IT! My dad came and looked in the attic and looked at our blueprints and determined that wall wasn’t load bearing—so we took it out!

SO much bigger and open and the kids can sit on the computer in the office instead of 10 kids standing around my bar.

 I paid my 13 yr old son to remove all the carpet from the stairs. Our plans are to do hard wood stairs with 6″ craftsman newell posts. I ordered new stair treads and risers from Stair-treads.com

Here’s my upcycled kitchen chandelier. I decided my cream one didn’t go anymore. I found the silver one at ReStore in Park City. I removed the glass shades and had Heber grind off the swirly parts down the center stem. I then put in clear light bulbs—LOVE IT! More industrial.

 Chairs–BEFORE—beautiful, but ready for something different.

Chairs—AFTER

Blue Diamond Chenille–matched up all those diamond at the top of the skirt and cushion

 I did a 1.5″ blind hem on the skirt–the fabric was pretty thick and had a backing on it. It laid better than what I was expecting.

Chair–AFTER– this stripe wasn’t symmetrical, it ran pink, blue, green,pink….. I decided the pink stripe was the most dominant that my eye went to–so I picked the center between the pink stripes to be my center (white stripe with tiny pinstripe of light blue). This way it looked more symmetrical.

I notched out around the rockers.

Lapped zipper on back right corner next to the piping.

The top corners were more rounded, so I did a kiss pleat (like the original) instead of a seam or fold one way. I also did piping down the inside arm seam (looks nicer this way, especially with stripes).

I timed the stripes on the front of the arms to coincide with the front…so they don’t miss a beat. (This is easier to do than you might think….I took photos for my Advanced Slipcovering guide, and will give you step by step instructions)