The Throne! - Furniture Fashionistas Series

Our monthly Furniture Fashionista Series continues today with Jean, from Backyard Bungalow.

This is a chair that I did a couple of years ago.  I call it...the Throne!

I found this at an estate sale...or maybe I should say...Mr. Wonderful found it 'cuz I walked right by the sucker!  I thought I had a good eye for spotting furniture, but if it hadn't been for Mr. W, I would have missed this reedonkulously amazing find!  It was marked $10.00, but would you believe it was half-off day?  Score!!  This picture was taken in the parking lot directly after purchase.

Interesting, right?!!  I set to work tearing it apart.

It was full of straw, old panty hose, t-shirts and all kinds of icky stuff!

 Gross, right?  And those springs!  They were all wonky and crap...I don't know what the person was thinking when they re-did this chair.  Yuck!  Never fear...I was wearing gloves and a mask during the ripping apart of this nasty chair.  I was just short of a biohazard suit.  I mean, even I have my limits.

Almost done ripping it apart.  I removed an entire garbage bag of yuck from this sucker!

Nothing of this chair was salvageable except for the frame, so I was left to try to figure out how to replace the springs and what not.   I purchased webbing from JoAnn Fabrics and set to stapling  the webbing on the back and re-gluing weak points.  I decided to replace the seat and back with thick foam.

Skipping ahead...I guess I forgot to take pictures of the shell of it...or of me painting it.  Oops!  Oh, well...Gotta remember this was BEFORE I had a blog.

I purchased a piece of 7" thick foam for the seat and 2" thick foam for the back from DIY Upholstery Supply as well as a roll of dacron polyester.  I covered the foam with spray adhesive and then wrapped it in the poly.

 Then I tried a "dry fit" before covering it in fabric.  Yay!  It fit!  I also skipped the steps where I had to cut the foam in such a way that it would fit tight in the seat, but sit over the edge of the wood.  Obviously, I was too engrossed in my frustration to take photos of the step-by-step process.

Jumping ahead...again....to the finished product!!

I adore grain-sack upholstery!  So simple, yet so elegant and durable.  And that texture...yummy!!

I liked it sooo much, I decided to keep it!!

This is how it looks in the Guest Bedroom.

So there you have it.  What about you?  Have you tackled a ridiculously gross project lately?  What was it? 

Jean

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