This weekend I caught up on a couple of the recent home magazines I have had lying around for ages. In them were two separate articles on people giving old furniture a new lease on life. So I got to thinking about all the furniture that I did up about 11 years ago. I found a few photos but there were plenty more that I had sold before I thought to take photos. Gorgeous wooden chairs that I had painted black with big white polka dots and pink chairs with big red polka dots covered in bright Japanese inspired fabrics. So many playful footstools and bedroom chairs recovered and sent out to enjoy the rest of their years
The photo below is of a chair covered in a purple silk with green beaded trimmings and black feathers. And the little stool next to it is covered in the zebra patterned silk fabric I had screenprinted, because you couldn't buy any back then, has an embroidered cotton and feather trim. All the pillows I hand embroidered with beads myself. (Yes I know too much time on my hands then)
I wish I kept this one. I had it covered in denim around the bottom and pink silk on top with a green beaded trim and a raffia trim, which I had to cut and stick each individual piece on myself because you couldn't buy that back then either!
The blue version unfinished.
Another bedroom chair in a mint coloured velvet with a vintage cushion on it. It was the only photo I had of it which happened to have Sylvester on it. He would have been about 2 years old and was just a big fat cat back then aswell!
The photo below is of a chair covered in a purple silk with green beaded trimmings and black feathers. And the little stool next to it is covered in the zebra patterned silk fabric I had screenprinted, because you couldn't buy any back then, has an embroidered cotton and feather trim. All the pillows I hand embroidered with beads myself. (Yes I know too much time on my hands then)
This chair was part of 3. I only have photos of 2. Not sure why. Brown with white polka dots with a white cotton trimming.
And this one is white with a fine brown embroidered pattern on it with pink cotton trimming.
Table cloths. I still have some of these.
Zebra print chair at the Paddington Markets in Sydney.
A lamp. I know not very sophisticated back then but it sold that day.
And he hasn't changed his habits very much at all. In fact not at all. New chair must try out and bed becuase what's theirs is mine.
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