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French stencil chair, reupholstered chair, use a canvas drop cloth to reupholster furniture, wrought iron chair
Hi everyone,
Hope you are all having a great weekend, and for those celebrating Memorial Day, a great long weekend! Last weekend was our Victoria Day long weekend, and I went to Las Vegas with five of my girlfriends to celebrate the fact that a few of us are turning 40 this year! We had an amazing time together sans husbands and kids – we shopped till we dropped, saw La Reve at the Wynn, ate at some great restaurants, soaked up some sun by the pool and most importantly laughed our heads off! I can’t wait for the next trip girls!! Now that I’m back, I’m trying to catch up on some prep for the vintage fair {The Olde Farmhouse Vintage Market} on June 23rd. Ahhh… this is now less than 30 days away and I’m sooooo not as ready as I’d like to be. Hopefully by next week I should have completed a few projects that I’m working on for the fair, ready to share with you.
In the meantime, here’s a chair that I painted and re-upholstered for my Mom for Mothers Day.
She brought it over a while ago and asked my if I could do something with it. Originally the frame was painted a dark green and the seat was a floral {maroon, green and ivory}. It was quite dated {very late 80′s/ early 90′s}. I wish I had remembered to take a picture of it, because it looks quite different now!
I decided to spray paint it black and then recovered the seat using a canvas drop cloth I picked up at Home Depot. I used a stencil and black paint {soft black} with a fabric medium. I love how it turned out and I think my mom does too. She says she keeps looking at it and still seeing the old chair as it was, though! I think it’s much better suited to her decor now. 
PS – this is the first time I’ve used canvas to upholster something, but was very impressed with the texture and look. I will definitely use it again, especially considering the price is so reasonable. I could easily cover several chairs with just one $10 drop cloth!
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Your chair is just darling now! Great job on the stencil! I bet your mom is thrilled!
Beautiful! Funny how your mom keeps seeing the old chair
This is a stunner!!!
I LOVE this! Love the chair itself and the way you did the seat cushion. Great stencil. I haven’t used dropcloth myself yet, but I’ll bet it took the paint really well with the stencil.
visiting from WUW : )
The chair turned out so lovely!
-Peggy
so cute! look at that pretty backing!
Love this! Very nice. I did something similar with a bench here: http://bluestarantiques.blogspot.com/2012/04/stencil-love.html
This is just so beautiful–I love the curvy lines of the chair, and love the drop cloth cover!
Just Beautiful!!!
You did a great job!! I love this glad you had fun doing this project.
Cynthia
Love this chair, especially the stencil..would you tell me where you purchased it?(the stencil that is:)
Thanks
Thanks! It’s from Maison De Stencils – they have a website.
Dear Kathryn, adorable chair!!!
I love your stuff!
I a so not ready and my mom is coming TO VISIT with a friend all the way from Brazil on the 14th!!! So I have to have everything ready by then, because I will be a tour guide after that!!! Also y husband is leaving to be with his mother on June 12th, so I will be without him on top of everything to help with the dogs, house, dinner., etc.
I was telling him today that if I don’t have enough stuff for the fair I will be getting our stuff around the house, LOL!!!! Tell your om not to get too attached to the chair, lol!
Claudine,
I feel your pain!! I may be shopping around the house too – ahhhhhh!!!
Glad you had so much fun with the girls! You did a great job on the chair. You are very talented. I look forward to seeing what you have for the fair.