January 23, 2005


  • Garage Sale find


    I bought this chair at a garage sale back when we lived in Seattle . . . over 28 years ago.  I believe I paid $10 for it . . . and trust me . . . $10 was a lot more money 28 years ago then it is today.  Anyway, I had to immediately recover the cushion on the chair seat. I covered it with a piece of yellow fabric because I sat it under a picture that had yellow in it.  That yellow fabric long ago go so dirty that for years now, I've had a thin cushion just laying on top the seat to hide the dirt.  Well, re-upholstering the seat was my project for this today.  I took a scrap of some heavy material we used on a couch several years ago and made a new padded covering for the chair.  I had to make a run to Hancock Fabrics to get new upholstery tacks, but finished it around 6PM.  I could hardly believe how many tacks it took . . . 72 for just that little seat, but it now looks 1000% better than it did.

Comments (9)

  • Oh what a pretty chair.     I need to reupholster my kitchen chairs some day soon...but am not looking forward to it. 

  • :goodjob: Don't you just :heartbeat: it when you make a good find at a garage sale? I think they're harder to find these days -- people are a bit more knowledgable about what their things are worth. But it can still be done, which is why garage saleing is so much fun. Way to go Chris!

  • I had forgotten that you could upholster. My Mother could do things like that. :goodjob:It's lovely. Mom

  • I have so many upholstery projects in my basement.  RH is ready to call the truck to come pick them up as give-aways.  Most of them, however, are not the value that you have in that chair now.  I like the fabric you selected. 

  • Sorry I haven't made it to your site for several days... just getting caught up. I have been working on our hill country site. I really like what you did with the chair. Very nice.  :goodjob:

  • Your chair is beautiful.  You did an excellent job!  :goodjob:  I have some chairs that are similar, but they have cane seats.

  • So, how much do you charge per tack?

  • Ive had a good time paging thru your site and Alice site this evening.  It's like looking at a really nice gardening magazine.  I dont remember when I got to do some looking but I know its been a good while.  Seventy two pounds of candy?  Boy that is a bunch and the pics were fun to see.  The oranges boiled three times then covered with chocolate are my kind of thing.  I love fruit jellies etc in candies.

    I hope this finds you well, I think you did a super job on the old chair.  I used to do a lot of that kind of thing.

    Keep on writing, Becca

  • The chair is beautiful! Back in the days of real wood.  :goodjob:

    p.s. you are fortunate the ostrich did not spit on you. They will do that.

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