Fancied Up Barrel Chairs

Fancied Up Barrel Chair

I found these chairs at Goodwill in 2014.  Yep, its taken me this long to figure out what I wanted to do with them.  My original plan was to slap some paint on them, reupholster them and sell them.  And boy, have I slapped some paint on there!  In fact, so much paint has been slapped that I have become accustomed to calling this chair "The Chair of Many Colors"!

I had this turquoise fabric that I knew I wanted to use.  So I sewed the cushion first.  Then I thought a really cool gray color would look great on the wood.  Well, it turned out I was wrong about that. 

So then I thought a nice whitewashed gray might look nice.

Nope, still wasn't loving it but I knew I wasn't budging on that turquoise fabric!  How about plain old vanilla white paint?

So I did like this better but I wanted to do a different color fabric on the back.

But I couldn't find any fabric that worked with that off white color.  So back to the drawing board, I mean, paint bucket.  I went for the old trusty black color.  Once I had the paint color settled, this greek key fabric was speaking to me for the back.  I even went so far as to start stapling it on.  But then, guess what, I changed my mind.

I decided I should let it cool off for a while.  It's kinda my thing when I can't make a decision.  I just go do something else for a while.  Okay, so maybe it was more like a year.  But hey, I did finally come back to it.  And here it is, finally finished.  

Its like the mullet of chairs...business in the front...

party in the back!

I love all the details on this chair.  While I was looking for inspiration for the chair, I noticed that it was called a barrel chair, barrel back chair, tub chair, and even club chair.  

Here you can see that I put upholstery tacks about every inch or so.  I intended to do the same on the back but I'm torn.  Zoe said she thinks I should but Jamie likes it without the tacks on the back.  What do you think?

I decided to go with this Braemore Sangria Ocean Fabric because I love how it brings in the turquoise with light blue color from the chest of drawers beside it.  That is another piece I bought at Goodwill with the idea of fixing it up and reselling it but Jamie likes it so much, he said we should keep it.  So I guess this means I'm keeping these chairs too.  That is, unless I change my mind.

What have we learned from all of this?  I change my mind, maybe a little more than the average person. But I'm not sure.