(Re) Chic

The finishing of the chair was actually much easier than expected.  I had previously bought some cording that matched the color scheme perfectly and deciding not to trim the back of the chair it actually ended up going on in one long continuous piece.  Adding the cording I started on the outside underneath the chair, came up along the side of the arms, around the front, along the other arm and then tucked the end back underneath the chair.   Voila! Finished product Checkout my entire chair rescue saga here:  Part 1 Part 2

Well, after stripping the chair of all of its stuffing and horsehair (an entire trash bag full) I can now recover the chair! Lucie seems to prefer the chair naked The problem with reupholstery projects is that they can be expensive.  The printed duck (that's what they call this fabric-its a combo between upholstery fabric and canvas) is $10 a yard on the low end so make sure you get it on sale (or bring your 40% off coupon) because you're going to want to buy an extra yard or two, especially if you have a pattern you're trying to match.  Since I pulled all the horse hair padding off I also needed additional foam padding for the chair, I recommend the 2 inch thick version of whatever brand you prefer, the 1 inch foam pads just weren't cushy enough. Make sure you sit in it to test it out on your tush.  I added batting to the sides for softness without the thickness.  I also wouldn't recommend doing this part in stages if you have pets around. ...

Well last week was the local community garage sales and someone I knew was unloading this chair with great bones...so I adopted it since she was giving it away.   Great Bones! As you can see she had started to reupholster it in this really boring fabric and then gave up (she didn't say why) so I decided to start from scratch and pull everything off of it.   Back of lovely chair And then the original horsehair was still a part of the chair and that she had chosen to leave it there during her reupholstering failure.  Not staying with my chair So I went ahead and ripped all of the padding and horse hair out so that we didn't have any more weird animal by products in our chair and now I'm left with...a naked chair.  Naked I decided to leave the burlap because it left a nice "housing" around the springs and gave the back some structure between the arms.  But I think I have removed most of the horsehair (I think there is still some lurking ...