Once I got going with all the other projects in the guest room, I decided I really didn't want to live with the 1980s dusty blue upholstery on this chair. The chair is perfectly serviceable otherwise and not without its charms, but the upholstery is just too not-right.
I don't have the skills to truly reupholster it and I'm committed to cheapskate-ing this guest room update project to the bitter end... hence, the quick-n-dirty slipcover.
I scoured the small selection of upholstery fabric at JoAnn which is the only place I know of to buy upholstery fabric around here and came up with this as the least offensive of the cheap options. Only later did I realize the herringbone texture echoes the the pattern on the window shade fabric which is also the fabric used on the back of the duvet set. So there!
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| That's right, in order to get enough fabric to make both window shades from the fabric I had already, I had to orient the herringbone sideways! What's the world coming to? |
This just needed to be quick, easy, and done.*
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| Although I steam pressed that crease out most of the way, it's obviously still there. Hopefully it will just kind of diminish over time. As it faces the wall most of the time and is a clean crease rather than a messy wrinkle, I'm not going to worry about it. |
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| I got to use some of these great buttons that were a gift from my friend, Tiffany, over at Fizzy Party. |
On my last post - Loads of Fun Laundry Room - I added a Real ________ Room Situation photo at the end so I wanted to do that here, too. But first a reminder of the recent work I've completed in the guest room.
And now for the Real Guest Room Situation (RGRS) ...
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| Apologies for the blurriness. One has to act quickly with photographing Delia as she doesn't have time for such nonsense and will take measures to avoid the camera. |
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For this part of the guest room update project all I needed to purchase was 2 yards of fabric.
OUT OF POCKET COSTS:
$ 7.98 - clearance upholstery fabric
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*In the interest of full disclosure: I am not quick; I spent about five hours making this, not including sourcing materials. It wasn't hard-hard, but it did take some time planning in order to not waste materials or have a bunch of weird seams. I have no amendments to "done," because it is. Done, I mean.
LOVE the button-back slipcover! I haven't seen that approach before. And the choice of buttons is, of course, perfection.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Denise! This is the how-can-I-make-this-the-least-complicated-and-quickest-using-the-fewest-seams-and-least-amount-of-fabric approach! The buttons were a gift and they worked out just great for this! YEY!
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