OS, found another chair for you!!

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15 years ago

Oh good lord. I DO hope you're going to buy it? Right? LOVE it. :)

Now get your buttinsky down onto my rug thread, please. I'm in "final throes of rug death."

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15 years ago

No, I'm not buying it. It's a little too formal for my family room. As you know I don't have a sitting or living room and I want to keep the family room more casual since that's where we'll be living all the time. I do want some old fancy chairs, but I think that one is just a little too fancy for my house. I was thinking more in line with the chairs in your living room.

I knew you would love it though.

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found this chair ..on the curb...

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Pugga, aren't those chairs fun? Go for it! Please be sure to take before and after pictures for us. (I always forget to take before pics.) We would love to see what you do. Bronwynsmom, yeah that's teensy weensy! hehe Oh, Mona, that is exquisite. Trailrunner, really it is not rocket science. It's just a matter of taking it apart and putting it back together the same way it came apart. This is an easy starter chair, with no sewing, no springs to tie, you only have to handle small bits of fabric, and the price was free. So you're right, what do you have to lose? Try to look for a fabric store where the ladies will be helpful and knowlegable, and ask them lots of quetsions. I'd take it apart first, sand and paint it and have it as clean as possible, then just haul the whole thing (plus the pieces you took off it) to the store. I've been known to bop around a fabric store dragging a large chair behind me -- lol -- I'm sure I wasn't the first. Calico Corners is great if you have one. A bit spendy, but not as bad as paying someone to do the whole thing and probably has some very knowlegable help. More cost effective is Joann Fabric. You can always phone first and ask if they have an expert at upholstery working there and when she will be on duty. The hardest part of upholstery, I think, is getting things pulled tightly at the same time you hammer or staple that down... so enlist DH to help with that and you should come out with lovely results. (The problem with doing it alone is you sometimes need three or four hands.) BTW, I've used the metal tack strips and the cardboard ones, and I like the cardboard ones a lot better. They're more flexible if you need to curve a bit, and they're easy to cut shorter wherever you want. Just don't forget and sit on either one! I hope you take lotsa pictures!

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Lovely upholstery job on those chairs, it seems. Can't understand why someone would have painted those white, tho. Seems like the wood would have added so much richness. I guess to each their own. What a fun pair of chairs to have in a reading nook in a bedroom.

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That really is a cool looking chair. Boy, you sure have found the goodies here lately.

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15 years ago

But it would make a GREAT bedroom chair! I have one very similar to it (although not as nice) in my guest bedroom--remember? I'll see if I can find a pic. . . .

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