As you havd probably noticed, I haven't been doing much in the way of miniatures during the last few weeks. The reason is that I decided to redecorate our real life living room.
Several months ago, I found a great sofa and chair from Crate and Barrel on Craigslist. The sofa is a charcoal grey and my living room is earth tones...dark orange, green, dark yellow etc. Anyway to make a long story short, I painted the walls a light grey and added some turquoise pillows to the sofa and put our bright orange chair in the corner. Now, there is a blank spot and we decided putting another chair in the corner would be great. I found a fab midcentury modern chair again on Craigslist for $20.00! Score! It needed new upholstery, some foam and a little work on the legs.
Several months ago, I found a great sofa and chair from Crate and Barrel on Craigslist. The sofa is a charcoal grey and my living room is earth tones...dark orange, green, dark yellow etc. Anyway to make a long story short, I painted the walls a light grey and added some turquoise pillows to the sofa and put our bright orange chair in the corner. Now, there is a blank spot and we decided putting another chair in the corner would be great. I found a fab midcentury modern chair again on Craigslist for $20.00! Score! It needed new upholstery, some foam and a little work on the legs.
As usual, I got in a hurry and didn't take the proper before pictures. But you can get an idea of what the chair looked like before. The lines of the arms are wonderful as is the finish.
The deconstruction. There was a lot of dust and dry rot. But the bones are great.
The chair skeleton.......
Then it happened! My husband decided to clean out the garage today and asked my to move the van so he could blow out all the dust and debris with the blower. I put the van in reverse and....crunch!!!!! I ran over one of the arms of the chair and totally split the wood.
I was in tears!!!! I've already put a bunch of time in the reconstruction of this chair and have spent many hours scouring Indianapolis and the internet for a great upholstery fabric (which I have yet to find because the fabric shops in the Indianapolis area for a lack of a better word suck!)
Nevermind my foot...
Here is the arm right now. It doesn't look too bad in the photo, but part of the wood actually got crushed and is probably unrepairable. We will see how it looks tomorrow after the glue is completely dry. My husband actually suggested that I could fill in the missing wood with wood putty and paint it.....NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!! That's NOT going to happen! He seems to think it's salvageable. I'll let you know what happens.
If anyone can think outside the box to find a way to make it work, you can, because you constantly work magic with your miniatures. I feel your pain. We once closed the garage door on a chair we had just bought for the store. We have bought a lot of fabric from winterbeachmodern.com and modernfabrics.com.
ReplyDeleteHi Dana, Thanks I will check out those sites for fabric.
DeleteSo sorry to hear about your disaster. I can relate...I've had a few of those "ahhhhh nooooooo!!!! moments myself. Hope all goes well with it. IndyPoppy
ReplyDeleteAw hugs you poor thing! But be glad it was only a chair darls xx
ReplyDeleteCover it with a fabric with cars on it and make the smooshed arm part of the story of the chair's life?
ReplyDeleteOr make a cushion with fabric similar to this to place one it, hopefully covering smooshed arm?
http://www.spoonflower.com/fabric/928337
Not a bad idea bout the cars...It definitely would give it some history. LOL!
Deletesorry to hear about your chair, hopefully the repair works.
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