The old Loved chairs.

This is the short story about how I did not refurbish these old, well used gems that I bought one day for 60 dollars. It is not that I think they would look good when they get some new and fresh, perhaps even stylish fabric onto them, no, I am quite sure they will look fabulous when refurbished, but I am loving them for the way they look right now.

Please forgive the photobombing of toys,
laundry basketand other items that some people just
 left behind. These pictures
were never meant for internet.

Make note of the armrests thrown in a pile on the
right side there.

The two pictures show you how they looked at first and once the first layer was stripped off. (I still have that floral fabric hidden. *shrugs* you never know…). The chairs look very similar, but they are different on the top of their backs, and their arms are shaped differently.

The white fabric was worn down and had plenty of holes in them, that’s how much they’ve been sat in, and they weren’t really clean so I tried my best to make them clean so we could use them for the upcoming ‘40 year birthday/ baby princess is born/ meet my family from Norway / we got married / family party’, party. We needed chairs.

I knew that they were probably very retro underneath it all, but I dared not start to pluck the nails that held the fabric in place, in case it would show to be even worse than the white. And the fact that mom wanted to help making them pretty made me leave them alone. They lived under some knitted blankets for a while. This blanket is especially dear to me, as it was knitted by my now late Granny.

And so we fast forward in time. Mom is here, (yay *cheers*) and we started to study the way the fabric had been put on, thinking we would use that knowledge to make the new covers. (Yes, I still have the white fabric somewhere too.)

We made sure to document said corners and the likes, and as we revealed the fabric underneath we started to get very excited. It was almost perfectly flawless on both chairs.

This is where my heart started to beat a little faster, I do love old and retro stuff. Mom appreciated the quality, even if she had lived with items of this sort previously in her life and felt a bit bored with it, she thought it was too sad to cover them back up again, when they are in such a good condition.

Note that this one is a bit
flat on top of the back.

Note that this one is more curved
ontop of its back.

And even if they are a bit different from each other, the fabric is still the same. We do not know if they were bought different like this, and that the fabric is original, or if they were bought with different fabric as well and had someone change the upholstery sometime along the way. It looks very professional.

Mom found some of my yarn to match the colour of the chairs and patched up the hole. I had a hard time finding it to show you, it is quite well done. She spent a while doing this.

The chairs came with some big pillows the previous owners used to sit on top of, or use as back supports. We washed them in the machine and made new, very durable, pillowcases, and they are now being used in the rumpus room as extra seating or whatever the kids  might come up with. 

I might show them later sometime.

And that was the whole story really. The fabric we bought for the chars are still unused. Perhaps one day we will make those covers as first intended, but until then they will be as is. 

I think they are gorgeous.