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Talk About a Facelift!

by Brooke Fedigan
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I venture into Goodwill about once a week.  Sometimes I find something, and sometimes I don’t.  This week, I found this chair.  This tired, stained chair that had great bones.  And still a lot of life left.  It was just sitting there, looking kind of sad, waiting for me to walk by.  So, I sat in it.  Walked around it.  Thought about how I could fix it up.  Turned it upside down.  The amount of time I was evaluating it and walking around it, one would have thought I was buying a car.  It was only $15, by the way.  Realizing this, I quickly picked up the chair and bought it.    I brought it home and quickly took it up to my studio (located in the FREEZING attic) so my husband wouldn’t nag me for buying more “stuff.”

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good-will-chair-before-back

I originally wanted to paint and recover it so it could go in Caroline’s room.   But I couldn’t find any fabric that a) I liked and b) would match everything in Caroline’s room.

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Finally, I found a fabric that I was smitten with.   I picked out a paint color that matched the design, and it was that pop that I wanted for the chair.

I removed the cushion and fabric and cleaned the chair well with TSP.  I then primed and painted the chair.  I used 1 coat of primer and 2 coats of paint.   I cleaned and recovered the cushion and fumbled my way along recover the front and back of the chair.

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All in all, I think I did a pretty well for my first upholstery job.  I have brought this chair back to life and it looks happy.  My husband likes it too.  Now, where to put it…..

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