Armchair restoration

A few weeks ago I spied a horrid old chair at the op shop. But I could see it had great potential for a makeover! I sent Dave a photo and asked if he was interested in doing up the chair together. He said sure, why not, so a lovely friend's husband picked it up and brought it home for us (our cars are too small). Here's how it started out. We took off the cushions and gave it a really good sand. I loved the colour of the timber (I think it's teak) so we decided we would just buy a clear…

This is where we left off… I talked about the soda blasting process and how I deconstructed this chair, in this previous post. I was so happy with the chair and how it was looking, all deconstructed! It was still a little too yellowy for my taste and I wanted to give it more of

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I did something scary: I decided I was going to learn how to reupholster a wingback chair that I had bought at the thrift store. First of all, I don't typically buy upholstered furniture from

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Restoration Of A Vintage Armchair | chair

Hello, everyone! I am back with a DIY decor project I have been SUPER excited to tackle: recovering some Louis XV chairs I got for a song on Craigslist. I will briefly give some tips on how I went about this DIY project, but I am not going to go into to much detail because it's pretty straightforward, and let's just be honest: if you're like me, you just browse through the pictures. So let's get on with it! The before: Great, right? Eh, not so much. I got a set of two chairs, one is a side…