Another project we worked on that weekend was to take steps to restore a chair that had been "on the shelf" for a long time. In the 50's there was a "fad" called "antiquing" which was probably a forerunner of shabby chic. You can go look it up if you're interested. The game was to take a nice piece of furniture you were tired of looking at and through a process of several layers of paint, create a "faux" finish that might resemble a wood grain to some, but in some other color. This chair was antiqued in blue tones by Georgia's mom. Sometime, maybe 20 years ago she didn't have room for the chair so it came to our house. It needed some repair and didn't really fit our country decor at the time so it went to the basement in our house on Main Street; Urbana where it was victim to a couple of basement floods. That cause some of the parts to disappear. So in our Crafting Camp, we made some of those parts and the chair went back to the basement (this basement is dry) until this past week.
We are needing a chair in our bedroom. Our bedroom furniture is cherry. So I did my best to match the cherry color and I picked out a couple of seat fabrics for Georgia to choose from. I think we came up with a very elegant and nice looking chair, restoring the chair's dignity and making a nice seat in our bedroom. You'll have to go back to the Crafting Camp post to see some "before" pictures.
No comments:
Post a Comment