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.
