Franky the chair

Oh man... it's been 6 very long, very busy months since I've posted anything!  Hard to believe.  What a summer this has been so far.  We've been working on the house, tearing walls out, the bathroom, destroying everything in our path!  Me thinks I am a bad influence on my husband, but he's stuck with me :)  I told Doug awhile back that we should take the wall out between the two bedrooms and the bathroom upstairs and make it all one big master bedroom and he got right on it.  However, demolishing has been the easy part.  Putting it back together is a different story... like a story from a Edward Scissorhands story.... I've never seen/read an Edward Scissorhand's story, but it seems like maybe it would be in a book about him if the book were about demolition of a 1950's house and 2 idiots who don't know what they're doing. Scary, people. 

Luke and I have done lots of the demolishing because that's what we're good at.  Doug has been amazing at picking up different knowledge on all kinds of stuff and does lots of grunting and borderline swearing (jk), which makes him seem like he's working extra hard. :)  He says "I don't know how to do XYZ" all the time and then I say "Go Youtube it"... and then he figures it out and just does it.  Ah, positive reinforcement.  If I have to, I'll resort to reverse psychology if the positive reinforcement fails. :)

Here is what the upstairs bathroom looks like right now... imagine it with a beautiful chandelier, lovely pale pink and grass green, gold and navy accents... ah.

I will post finished pictures of the upstairs when I'm 40ish years old... I'm assuming it will take that long to finish at the rate we are going. :)  Here's hottie-po-tottie showing the electrical who's boss!

I actually bought a chair to redo.  I can't believe I paid money for it, but I did and that's that.  I finally got fabric for it this past weekend and decided that the chair had been incubating in the garage for long enough and I got going on it.  Piece o' cake.  Finished this thing in less than a day and am pretty stinking proud of my beasty reupholstery skills on this thing.  I sewed a bit of it and finally figured out how to do upholstery tack strips, which have been super intimidating to me, but are a breeze!
These are tack strips, they are used to pull the fabric in clean on the back of the chair and you hammer them to the chair.  

Here is Franky The Behemoth chair before...

The supports for the ottoman had broken underneath and the foam was pushed down and sagging and basically this thing is just blah.  I'm always confused why people by this kind of furniture in the first place.  So ugly.  This is probably the least complicated piece of furniture, but sort of tedious with the sewing bit.  I also ended with barely enough fabric for it all and had to really watch what I was doing by the time I got to the ottoman after I finished the chair.  It came out lovely though!

Ignore anything that looks tacky in the background.  My house is a disaster most of the time!  I told Doug yesterday if I had all the things that I paint or reupholster, I'd have a great house.  However, they get sold and I continue on with the things in my house that are half upholstered or half painted. Lol!  Sort of like a construction worker with a house that's forever torn up and never finished.  Someday.

It's hard parting with some pieces, and this is one of them, but it'll go too.  Turned out just amazing though and is fantastic piece!  Pictures don't do this thing justice.

 One of my friends sisters asked me to sew some curtains for her.  They turned out just gorgeous and I thought I'd share.  I'm praying that she never washes them and that they don't fall apart. :)

They are stunning in person, but oh, what a pain to sew!!  Tons of sewing, measuring, ironing... but they turned out beautifully and were what she had envisioned, which made it all worth it!