We picked this arm chair up at a garage sale for only $15!
We liked the nice legs and overall shape of the chair,
but the material definately needed to be replaced!
We liked the nice legs and overall shape of the chair,
but the material definately needed to be replaced!
First, we had to strip the chair of all the old fabric, while leaving the fill in tact....Not an easy task, since these old chairs are made to last! This took several hours and a lot of elbow grease.
Then we used the existing fabric pieces as patterns for our new fabric. We picked up a gorgeous floral print to be the focal point of our living room. This material, along with piping cost around $90 from JoAnn's Fabrics (our biggest fabric splurge).
Putting the new material on the chair was much easier than taking it off. Matt went to Home Depot to buy some staples and got a "great deal." He said the special was when you buy a box of staples, you get an elctric stapler at regular price! After much eye rolling, I saw the benefits of this new tool, as it made applying the fabric much easier and faster and we've used it on every piece since.
So far, this has been the most time consuming piece we've done, but the end result was well worth it! Final cost was just over $100.
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