Saturday, November 12, 2011

A Day of Projects-Started...not finished

I woke up this morning in such a great mood.  The sun was coming up over the river and the trees in the back yard were glowing.  Beautiful!  So I grabbed Ben and we went for a walk...all bundled up of course.  It was only 30 degrees or so.  Tess was busy with a friend who slept over so, after Steve left for golfing, Ben and I went downstairs to work on projects.  Ben was doing arts and crafts and I started painting our modular shelving that will one day hold the TV in the living room (pictures to come later).

Then I decided to get started on my 60's Viko Baumritter chair that I purchased on Ebay for $30!  I am hoping to get to SR Harris this weekend to pick out fabric.  Here is the before picture of the chair.  It has a rip in the vinyl seat and the metal legs need some major attention.


It is now in pieces.  I will use the old vinyl to make a pattern for the new fabric, will spray paint the legs a nice soft white color and I have already sanded the wood arm rests so they can be stained a nice espresso color.  I can't wait to tackle this.


My biggest concern is picking the right fabric and creating the piping for the cover.  It has been a long time since I have sewn anything, especially piping for an upholstery project!  Wish me luck!

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