This chair makeover
was pretty straight
forward and simple
to do.
When I have a great French chair that needs a make over
there are a few different directions I could take.
Here you can see how the chair looked before I started. I
repaired the wiggly arms and I thought I might paint the
fabric but I was sure I wanted to paint the frame. Once it was
painted in white, the fabric color popped and looked really
nice against the white. That's when I realized cleaning the
upholstery was an option that had been forgotten. In this day
and age and in my profession this starts to look like a long
lost technique reserved for my mother's generation. The
fabric had been taken taken care of and a good cleaning was
all that was needed to freshen it up.
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I painted the nail heads and trim then lightly distressed the
frame to show a bit of the original dark finish. I chose to wet
distressed so I wouldn't sand through the walnut stain that
had been used years before. Underneath a spring needed
some adjustments due to a strip of the burlap webbing
coming un-nailed, so I fixed all that then I stapled a new
piece of striped vintage fabric across the bottom of the chair.
Here are a few more transformations:
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