Down a country road

                                                     A "country road" tune, if you like.
            This pair of chairs came from a beautiful country road in the woods of New Hampshire. Up a lazy valley with 300 year old field and wooden bridges. A piece of heaven on earth.
            After LOTS of staples removed and the old coverings discarded, Ready to tailor up the new fabric chosen out of Barrow Industies books.  Well made frames that have stood the time test. With fabric consultation with every job. My customer was able to choose one grat fabric! 

 The outside arms and backs  are backed and topped with a thin coat of cotton.

                                 Nice clean cuts at the intersections with a hand sewn decking.

                                                                This fabric is so soft and suttle

The "channeled" inside  backs are stripped and re-sewn for nice flowing lines.

 Very carefully.

                                                 With matching mirror pleated inside arms.

                         These sure are gonna' look nice on display over the weekend!

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My fingers they weave gold

In comes a sled seat needing some restoration work. The cover had some clues in it but a pattern had to be created from scratch.

 Here shows the base, foam, and old cover.

     A Quick shot of all the pieces after the design process. Many years in the school of hard knocks to get this cleanly cut and sewn.

                                    Attached with stainless staples with a very good quality marine vinyl, this worked up pretty nice!

                                 Some modifications to the tool box flap helped in improving the cover.

                                   This seat is costing the owner a substantial amount less than if purchased from the corporations.  What great value.

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No kidding around

Here is how this childs chair came to the shop. A puzzle in a sense.

Probably from the 1970's

 After all new stuffings this awesome fabric was chosen out of the fabric books in house.

                                           What a nice childs chair for a second generation.

In America's past Home furnishings were handed down from one generation to the next.

 Furniture was made to last a lifetime and more.  Furniture was designed to be easily maintained as far as applying fresh fabric and stuffings not to break down. As well as respect for material wastage.

 A lot of "new" home furnishings are designed not to be easily "re"upholstered or to last lifetimes, by design.

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California dreaming

May I suggest you enjoy "California Dreaming" while viewing.

Here is a couple chairs that could be back to the 1830's

                         The smaller chair was tottally stripped and restored the base shown below.

                            Dusted out the traditional animal hair stuffings and a cout of fresh cotton.

                           And the larger one hand tied coil springs and traditional jute webbing ready to go.

                      Traditional burlap covers the springs and nosing reset on the seat edges.

                                      More natural stuffings tailored up for a nice crisp base.

                                   And a thin liner to set all the stuffings before the final coat.

Clean crisp staple lines for the gimp cord to be applied.

                             Gave all the exposed wood a scrub down with a restore a finish.

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Floral Fantasy

A pair of "club" chairs Shown here with all the staples removed ready for upholstery.

 My customer supplied this fabric from online. It's got a great slipcover look but with a well made upholstery grade fabric.

 The inside is now falling together. 

 The outside arms and backs , backed and lined.

 I gave a number of 13 and a half yards needed for this pair.  This picture shows ALL the leftover fabric. 17 years of plotting fabric allowed me to complete this job properly with minimum fabric.

Here some completed pictures.

 The back cushion was light on the stuffings.

More synthetic down added.

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Peacocks and Horsemen

Here is a good size slipper chair that needs a make over.

Good solid frame.

With an oak plywood frame loaded with extra long decorative tacks and staples.

Here I used a hardwood 1 inch a/c plywood cut to size, one  and a half inch nailers with hide glue.

 Topped off with body filler to smooth out the frame for a skirt.

Then sanded down.

 This is a double skirt requested.

Had to put some thought how to work this one up.

                                             The skirts ussually go on last but not on this one.

I'm glad I steam pressed the skirt before hanging it.

Sure makes a nice difference.

 I want this one almost kissing the floor.

Hand sewn and custom cut corners on the 3 sided decking.

Finished up clean and crisp.

Note the zippers do not roll onto the sides of the seat cushions.

They stay to the back and bottoms. For a nice simple look.

And topped off with the seat cushions with a variety of scenes if so desired.

Peacock-Peacock

                                                                      Peacock-horsemen

                                                                    Horsemen-Horsemen

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