Le Chair, c'est magnifique!

I completed the rustic revamp 
of the yellow chair.
 I picked this chair up at a garage sale
for $4 a few weeks back.
It was it pretty rough shape and

the foam had seen better days for sure.

I really love how the paint finish turned out.
It's kind of sloppy cool.  I took some
plain old white latex paint and added some 
black craft paint and a little glaze. 
What I got was the best chalky blue!
Good thing happen when your willing
to just play around and wing it.

My base was just acrylic raw umber paint
from Michaels with a bit of 
grout in in to make it stick.
Raw umber is the best and my 
favorite go to for a good dark brown.

sorry for the fuzzy pic...

I added some new foam to the bottom
of the chair before stapling

 on the ticking fabric.
 I used the egg crate foam from
 Walmart and just pulled it over
 and through
all the nooks and crannies
 before attaching.

Here's the flat base I started with.
I layered up the foam to create a more
mounded seat.

Then I just stapled the fabric.

  I really love ticking.
  It goes with everything, 
its crisp and clean, it can be fancy,
 and 
it can be humble.

All that and it's inexpensive!

The foam on this chair was falling apart so I cut and hand sewed
 a batting cover all the way around. 
 I don't have a picture of the top and bottom
 but I basically just cut the shape and
laid it over and sewed to the boxing side.

I also found a great metal zipper for the cushion.
I think it really adds to the rustic vibe.
It's heavy duty and haberdashery!

via

This is the inspiration pic

via

and so is this...

I stapled the jute and started playing
with how to do the weaving.

Since the chair back is wider at the
top I angled the jute vertically
and didn't really worry about
fitting it exactly.
I knew the horizontal jute pieces
would cover the open spaces.

Here's what I came up with.
I stapled like crazy at the top and
wrapped it around the chair frame
for extra stability.

Then I pulled it down to the underside of
 the chair and stapled like crazy again.

It is so flippin' cool I can't stand it.
I'm really out of my mind with satisfaction!!!

I'll tell ya what, I just love refurbing chairs.  

It's such a creative process especially

when you can play with it and not worry.

I'm going to have a hard time letting this baby go!

It looks so great in my family room.

Did I mention that I just cut up some
of the jute to make the trim to hide the staples.

I could even add some nail heads here 
for extra super cool wow factor. 
 Hmmm,
 how many times can I say cool?

Let's see, nope..

there's no other word.

It's just plain cool.

Here's the before and after one last time.

I'd say this was a success!

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