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a vintage, girly chair redo for piper jane

January 2, 2012

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I am a great waiter. Not like, serving-food-at-a-restaurant-waiter, like delayed-gratification-waiter. I’d rather hold out for something that I really love than get something that I sort of like. Along those lines, I’m still waiting to find a few ‘just right’ components of Piper Jane’s nursery- the most important being a lovely, girly, glam chair.

As a placeholder until we found The One, we moved a living room chair into the nursery.

With the brown place-holder-chair in place, I began my vintage-girly-chair search in earnest. And actually, I didn’t find anything for the longest time. But then, about a month ago, the heavens opened to make a halo of glory (ok, actually, a Halo of Potential) around this green, velvet, makeover-ready chair at my favorite thrift store, Mile High Thrift.

And after the redo? Vintage-y, girly, linen-y and perfect for the Smoochie’s room!
vintage chair redo
I added aqua linen on the front…

…geometric, Joel Dewberry, wallpaper-y goodness on the back…
…white paint…
…and covered button tufting.
A couple of mod throw pillows finish the look (the ‘huggie’ pillow is a Land of Nod knock off and I’ve been wanting to make the “B” monogram pillow for months).

The Little Miss Priss is more than thrilled with her new chair- and I am loving having a spot to snuggle and read together. So lovely!

*EDITED TO ADD* Thanks for all of the emails and comments requesting a chair reupholstery how-to. I am not an expert by any means, but the tutorial is HERE.

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  1. Andrea @ Our Little Gems says

    January 14, 2012 at 11:03 am

    this chair is gorgeous. i’m pretty speechless. my goal is to do my first chair this year, and while all this one looks way beyond beginner love, the color, shape, and look is certainly inspiring!

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    • Kirstin says

      January 14, 2012 at 2:49 pm

      thanks andrea! you could totally take it on- it’s not low maintenance, but totally worth it. 🙂
      send pictures of yours over when you finish it- we’d love to see them. 🙂

      Reply

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