Audrey, the "Thinking Chair"

Meet Audrey, the cute but needs to be updated wing back chair. Audrey was another Craigslist find. A couple of months ago my sister was over and we were crafting in the craft room (go figure), and my sister said "sissy, I think you need a thinking chair", and so I said, "Mo, I think you're exactly right"!

Thus, Audrey was born :)


Audrey was neglected for a few weeks for two reasons: 1) She was a bit bigger than I thought (I learned the hard way that I should measure before I buy stuff), and 2) I couldn't for the life of me figure out what kind of fabric to cover her in. I love love love damask, and know that it's super in right now, but I didn't want another damask fabric.... but I gave in :)

I started with the front, and worked back for this chair, and didn't use ANY piping. I would like to say I don't use piping because I think it gives Audrey a more modern look, but it's really because I'm too lazy to use piping on a huge chair, and too scared I'll mess it up. One day though, I'll give in!

Isn't she amazing!?!

And yes, now I have a thinking chair that I think in ALL THE TIME!!

Now she just needs some cute "Thinking" pillows.... more on that to come : )

Meet Script, the Chair

Here is one of my first Craigslist "chair" finds. I was always terrified of Craigslist, but it turns out that not everyone is too bad! This chair came from a nice old man who was downsizing and needed to get rid of lots of stuff. I was like "so.... how old do you think this chair is", and Mr. Old man was like "well, it's been in my family my entire life, which means its older than me." Good answer Mr. old man! That's exactly what I wanted to hear!


For that reason alone, I was a little scared to give him a makeover (yes, the chair is a him, and I named him Script). But look at Script... he looks awful and worn out, but still has some AMAZING detail work!

So, trying not to think what Mr. Old Man's grandmother would say if she knew what I was about to do, I went to work :)

We live in a new housing development, and there are no houses (yet) to the West of us... I know it's because they know if they got rid of my "Spray Paint" field, I'd go c-r-a-z-y :)

This is probably one of the easiest chair's I've redone. I'm not a fan of gutting the chair and then starting from scratch if it already has some good cushioning!

Needless to say, Script feels much better now!

and now we just need to find a place in our house for him to go :)

"The Chair"... One of my first projects :)

One of the things I had found to be super popular in blog land were gross, dirty, rusty, old chairs. Then I got jealous and was like, "D, you need to go find a super ugly, dirty, rusty, old chair and fix it up because it looks like so much fun"... and that was where it all started for me! Now I have a obsession with finding gross, dirty, chairs, and making them look so fan-freakin-tastic! But now I have to hide them from Mr. Husband and tell him when the timing is perfect that I bought more chairs, or I just let him find them on his own... but more on that later : )

So here she is... the first chair I birthed :) (FYI, half of these pictures were taken in my apartment prior to moving to Mrs. Amber) I had also purchased a cute lamp and table, for a grand total of $11. She actually doesn't look so bad in this picture, but it simply does not do it justice as to how gross and icky she was...

She must have been from the 70's... she had some nasty gross vinyl fabric print.

So, the ladies out in blog land rarely mention the treat I found... They never tell you about the possible Tetanus shot you might have to get from taking these things apart!!! G-R-O-S-S...

Some super nice, old padding underneath...

Then from all the nice tutorials in blogland, I laid out all the pieces to act as a template for the new fabric.

I had to stop and take a picture because the whole process was going too well.... so I wanted to catch it before I messed something up.

But as it turns out, I didn't mess it up, and after staining her legs with a Ebony stain, she now resides in our new home :)

Here she is alongside her trusty side table (which I simply spray painted black). The lamp was spray painted and used downstairs in our living room... pics on that later!

Not bad for a first project :)

Linking up to Thrifty Decor Chics Before and After party!