A Beach Rose Chair
After: Beach Rose Chair |
Living near the ocean, I love the wild roses that grow along the beach. Rosa Rugosa: their pink and white hues and their fragrance always remind me of warm summer days complete with sand between my toes and melting vanilla ice cream.
via google image search |
But when I first spotted this chair it was more thorn than rose:
Before |
Perhaps it was nice in its day, but looks very dated now. The detail of the rose disappeared in the dark wood and the fabric. Hmmm, what nice thing can I say about that?
Rose detail |
I got new padding from Jo-Ann’s which I cut to size. Luke and Conor helped me remove the old fabric and padding and recover it using a staple gun:
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Love the chair 🙂 You keep disappearing from my google reader? I don’t know why 🙁 I just resubscribed
That is very strange. I’ll try and figure out why.
Darling~ love it how you have transformed it!! Would love for you to come share at Feathered Nest Friday at my blog- going on all weekend! 🙂
Courtney- just visited your blog. I love it. I’m now following you and linked up to your party. Hope you have a great weekend.
Really looks great! Much more soothing and beautiful.
Thanks, Toodie.