weekend projects- upholstery

a while ago - we had a chair recovered by a professional upholsterer- gorgeous wingback chair. i looked for a month for the perfect fabric, before getting frustrated and picking a green floral sort of mod-ish - looking print. anyways - it was bloody expensive. and i have a tendency to change my mind about what i like pretty often. on saturday night - i decided to attack these chairs (we have 2!) i've wanted to recover them forever but somehow, they were daunting. and i didnt want to spend another bloody fortune on them. well...until saturday night when i decided it was my (and their) time. so - away i went. i had some pink fabric i discovered in the extra bedroom recently that i had completely forgotten about. so i figured...perfect!!!!

i uncovered the bottom, unscrewed all the nuts and bolts...turns out these chairs are VERY well made. i undid about 100 staples. i got to here....

and i felt totally overwhelmed. cant tell from my crappy iphone picks - but there was some fancy wood piece i bent to heck that i believe was a key component holding this whole thing together. it was at this point i told my husband i was re-upholstering the chairs with pink fabric. (the pink fabric hanging off the kitchen table in above pic). and that i had forever ruined some key metal chair component. he suggested we go shopping for different upholstery fabric, and that i employ an upholsterer.

the next day - we went shopping and i asked which of the following 2 fun fabrics he liked....

and he picked the graphic pink one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! yayayayayayayayayyayayayayayayayayay!!!!!!

so i called the upholsterer and dropped them off today!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! cant wait for these fun babies to get back.