February 25, 2005

• Our Latest Project

  
  

  

  
  

  This is our latest project around the Duffy household.  We had two 26 year old chairs recovered this month (by a real upholsterer, not by me) and there was just enough material left over for me to recover this bench in the guest bedroom.  The fabric is beautiful . . . although I would rather have had the pattern running the other direction.  But there was just barely enough to do it this way, and to do it the other direction, there would have had to be at least one seam and I sure didn't want that. 

  
  

  

  
  

  Here's a close up of the fabric. Mauve is one of the two accent colors in my house.  When we went to the warehouse to pick out the fabric to have the chairs recovered, my husband and I walked up and down the many isles and took little swatches of the ones we liked, and finally decided on this material. We took the swatch up to the front desk to tell the folks what we'd pick out and he got a little weak in the knees when they told him how much it was per yard.  We considered changing our selection, but then we (HE) decided that we'd stick with the fabric we LIKED rather than one that cost  less.  

  
  

  I'm glad we did.  I LOVE the fabric.  And now those chairs look like a million bucks.

  
  

  You know, when we got them 26 years ago, it was from a flea market, so no telling HOW old they really are, and Mike has been wanting to have them recovered for the last 20 years . . . he finally prevailed.

  
  

  Gee, if I'd known they were going to look this good, I'd have agreed years ago.

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