upholstery hell

From the depths of the basement and Re-uphosltery hell, and just to say I can do it...

remember this post

" Step One of Re upholstery of a chair"

It started like this purple mess, stained and ripped.

Then to my weary hands and eyes I continued on, hoping to one day complete the project.

When I started, Osama Bin Laden was still alive

See this Post

Lord, I'm slow.

I'm still stapling and pulling and trying to figure it out.

I have decided that it can't look any worse than it did, and my new motto is why keep it if we aren't going to use it....

So, Fix the DAMN thing!

(or ditch it, it can't be any worse)

Here I'm stapling, just to hold something in place so that I may tug the other side.

from the front:  not too shabby, still a ton of stapling and fabric, and I'm not even showing you the back yet!!!!

upholstery hell, originally uploaded by v8grrl.

The side, which still needs the entire side done....but it's getting there.

This was time consuming, and daunting, but once I said, "screw it" ( so, not Miss Design Blogger) and started stapling it started moving faster.  

I probably could have bought a new chair for about 300$ from IKEA

but this will make me happier, knowing I can do it myself.

The cost:

fabric: 42$

Staples:7$

Loss of confidence: ***

I'll keep ya posted.

Now you attempt it!

upholstery...try

I figured if this guy (who I Loooove)

can get this guy (who i didn't love)

I could attempt to conquer that chair I have been trying to reupholster.  

see this post

That ugly stained purple chair. 

I ripped it all apart,  I bought the material, laid it out, then moved it to the basement to think about it....for a loooooong time.   

Yesterday I started again.

I'm slow mover...

slow and steady.

reupholster a chair... Step 1

Hmmm, as I move a long in my project I am finding it quite irritating, which means to me the rewards should be great!

First thing...drag chair to workable space where you won't have to move it and where you can shoot little staples all over the room upon removal.

The directions I have say to start at the bottom, so I removed the legs of the chair and started on the bottom...wow, too many staples.

Gross?...just wait.

so the bottom is off and back and look at what treasures of grossness I've found!!!

a HAT!!!!  

really, kids?

Here's a closeup...

poor little army man

I just want you to know...kids are gross, I blame this all on them.

So after approximately on and off staple pulling for 4 hours I had only gotten the bottom section unhooked.  Time to call it a night and I'll start again tomorrow.

Wow... My friend just emailed me and said the staples are the worst part...

So, far it is the only part.

She also said to watch out for dead things.

Bleeech