Old and New (Again)

Posted by Cheryl on Nov 08 2007 | 4. Simplify on Thursday

‘Craft on Thursday’ still means furniture restoration these days.

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The fibre finger is still itching, but days are filled with other types of crafts. Today’s work involves four old wooden chairs found in the shed, a bit of wood wash, a touch of sandpaper and new covers for the seats.

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Fabric came from an old upholstery sample book picked up from Friend-Erica-Who-Used-To-Be-In-The-Sofa-Design-And-Manufacture-Business. I like the variety rather than uniformity, so each chair has a personality and place of its own!

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8 comments

8 Responses to “Old and New (Again)”

  1. # Yvonne

    Beautiful! I need to get around to doing the same to two (almost identical) chairs we have sitting around.

    09 Nov 2007 at 10:47 am

  2. # marble

    purty. . . . .

    09 Nov 2007 at 2:51 pm

  3. # Bettina

    lucky find! I think in a not extremely formal setting slight differences always look nicer than the totally perfect turn-out of readybought stuff!

    09 Nov 2007 at 7:53 pm

  4. # Worsted Knitt

    Very lovely, I like the fact that you allow them to differ - it brings ‘that extra something’ to the set.

    09 Nov 2007 at 8:17 pm

  5. # gilraen

    They are fabulous and look great being slightly different, besides you can pick your own chairs now! ;) :)

    Well done :)

    10 Nov 2007 at 10:55 am

  6. # Leigh

    Looking good. I agree with you about variety, but I like that the color and theme of the fabric ties them all together.

    10 Nov 2007 at 12:11 pm

  7. # Holly

    They look beautiful. Big change since they were rescued from the barn.

    10 Nov 2007 at 6:25 pm

  8. # jackie

    nice chairs…and their new seat covers are really lovely! lovlier since they don’t match.

    11 Nov 2007 at 2:40 am

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