What it was made to be.

My parent’s patio had been serving as a storage area for old furniture for a number of months but it was getting closer to the time to move into my house so the furniture needed to be fixed up and recovered so that it could be used.  You may remember all the old furniture I had collected from a previous post; my first project was the old arm chair.

I was sick for a few days and had to stay home in the warm watching movies, after a while I got a bit bored and decided it was a good opportunity to try my hand at upholstery.

 

 

  I stripped the old vinyl back and then used it as a template to cut the new fabric, for a first attempt I was pretty happy with it:

Next I Had to recover all the Dining chairs, these were much simpler but quite time consuming as there are six of them. I watched a lot stupid TV shows with my sister while I got them all done.

The other chair that needed to be recovered (actually it needed all new foam as well) took me a lot longer. This chair needed all new covers made accurately using a sewing machine; its not my forte but its turned out OK. If you look closely there are a lot of little mistakes, the pattern in the fabric doesn’t always line up and I must concede I had to do a lot of touch ups with a needle and thread because of my lack of skill with the machine, but hey; it’s done!

I do have a couple other chairs that I need to re-cover, but they’ll get done eventually and for now I’m happy with the way these have turned out. I love being able to take an old piece of furniture and look past the frayed edges, the stained fabric and the broken parts and see what it was made to be, what it was before life had made a mess of it and what (with a little work) it could be again. I’ve heard it said that Jesus see’s us in much the same way & he’s willing to do the repairs if we let him.