{"id":940,"date":"2011-04-15T21:30:57","date_gmt":"2011-04-15T21:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/salvagesisters.wordpress.com\/?p=940"},"modified":"2011-06-12T18:38:20","modified_gmt":"2011-06-12T18:38:20","slug":"pair-o-chairs-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tullyroan.com\/salvagesisters\/?p=940","title":{"rendered":"Pair o’ chairs 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mostly when i buy an old wreck of a chair, table or otherwise, i drive home thinking of my expansive plans for re-vamping and re-working my fabulous find. However, its amazing how easily you can get used to a furniture’s foibles as time passes. Not so for this chair though, recently purchased at the lane sale as a pair for \u00a31. Whilst its elm and blue velvet components were visually pleasing, the webbing in the seat was completely gone, making it somewhat akin to a parking your bum on an uncomfortable toilet seat. Thus began my first ‘proper’ upholstery job yesterday. Here’s a recap of the events as they unfolded.<\/p>\n

1. Chair on arrival<\/p>\n

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2. Stripping the seat back to the frame<\/p>\n

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3. New sisal webbing, fixed with staple gun<\/p>\n

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4. Next 2 layers: horsehair and cotton<\/p>\n

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(5. A few more undocumented layers, as it started to rain!)<\/p>\n

6. Colefax and Fowler fabric remnant to finish<\/p>\n

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Now to put it to the ultimate test – survival in our busy household…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mostly when i buy an old wreck of a chair, table or otherwise, i drive home thinking of my expansive plans for re-vamping and re-working my fabulous find. However, its amazing how easily you can get used to a furniture’s … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":942,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15,48],"tags":[33],"class_list":["post-940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-furniture","category-lucy","tag-chairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tullyroan.com\/salvagesisters\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tullyroan.com\/salvagesisters\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tullyroan.com\/salvagesisters\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tullyroan.com\/salvagesisters\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tullyroan.com\/salvagesisters\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=940"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.tullyroan.com\/salvagesisters\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1076,"href":"https:\/\/www.tullyroan.com\/salvagesisters\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940\/revisions\/1076"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tullyroan.com\/salvagesisters\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tullyroan.com\/salvagesisters\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tullyroan.com\/salvagesisters\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tullyroan.com\/salvagesisters\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}