Upholstery ……New look – New life part 1

I am so excited as last night I started a course I have wanted to do for ages……UPHOLSTERY….I especially wanted to do this as I bought these (2) wonderful little chairs at St Vinnies – they were an absolute bargain.  They are in great condition, think around from 1950’s but need a new fresh exciting look.  

Another reason I have wanted to do an upholstery course is that I love watching Sarah Richardson and some of the things she has done is out of this world.   I also wanted to start making upholstered bed heads and reupholster piece for others…..

I have found a fabulous course held at Padghams in East Moorabbin, so for the next eight weeks every Tuesday night is Padgham night…last night was fun and the class is all women. I must say we were all pretty focused in our task and there wasn’t a lot of chatter happening. I’m sure that will change over time. Adrian and Dianne that run the class are brilliant.

Last night was stripping back our chairs so that we can start to rebuild them and make them look wonderful.   I, like all the ladies in class never knew that an upholstered chair has so many staples and tacks, there seemed to be no end in sight.  It had to be the quickest two hours of my life, but I am glad to say that after two hours of lots of hammering, pulling out staples and some help from Adrian I am nearly there……..This is what my chair looks like now  – not so pretty, but in a few weeks time that will all change!!  

I am going to use two fabrics in the chair, one is a large multi coloured paisley/floral (for the front of the chair) and on the back I will use a complimentary stripe – aren’t these just fabulous.  

 




 Stay tuned for next weeks installment