Tuesday, September 22, 2009

The luck of the shop ...

It can get down right irritating to go into a thrift store and see an absolutely hideous chair that is marked $30. Ugh! Sure, one day it could be fabulous, but there's a lot of work involved...and tons of staples, dust, and unidentifiable objects stuck in crevices.
So, it's always nice to find a completely lovely chair for $2 (no crevices involved). I know who every priced this chair didn't think it was lovable but I don't care. I loved this chair straight away!

Still, even a lovely chair can stand a facelift. I love this technique too. I basically take fabric stiffener and soak my fabric, in this case a lovely silk plaid and then I cover the chair in it. I let it dry and then go over the whole thing with poly -- I like the water based product for easy clean-up.

A nice break from the staple gun.

4 comments:

amanda said...

love it! very clever... and is it pretty easy too?

looks great sis!

High-Heeled Foot in the door said...

Love it! What a great trick!!! I'm going to have to try it out in the future.

I totally agree with you over $30 thrift store chairs. They are way over priced in NY as well.

I always have luck finding single chairs on trash night!

Have a great weekend!

Let it Shine said...

looks awesome!

Alyshia

Roeshel said...

How pretty and you make it look so easy! Love it!

Roeshel