Desk Chair Makeover and the Beginnings of My New Creative Space

I fell in love with this chair last winter at a small antique show up in Sandpoint, ID and had to bring it home with me after feeling how heavy, sturdy, and comfortable it was.  I'd been on the lookout for just the right chair to go with my new half-round desk and this fit the bill....

Although I'm glad I did end up buying it now, I certainly was wishing I would have known that I'd be moving it 3,000 miles in a matter of months after purchasing...I have a lot of furniture like that... I had always intended on re-finishing it to go with more of my look and I finally got around to it!  This is what it looked like before...

It's a bit hard to tell in this picture (that I quickly snapped after I started pulling out the nailheads), but the wood finish was badly scratched and very tired-looking.  The fabric on the chair was a actually a really nice dark green mohair, but it got damaged a bit while in storage this last summer and didn't go with what I was envisioning for my new craft space. 

After painstakingly pulling out all the nailheads, furniture tacks and deconstructing the chair, I painted the frame black...

I recovered it in an off-white canvas and added a "K" monogram for a little personalization and then I was on to the hard part....nailheads!

To be honest, this was my first time applying nailheads to a piece of furniture and besides the boatloads of dining chairs that I've recovered, I'm fairly new to re-upholstering, so I'm learning as I go.  What I learned here...

1) Do not attempt reuse the nailheads that were originally pulled off the chair in a very haphazard way!  When originially yanking them off the chair, I thought I'd be purchasing some new ones...until I priced out how many packages I needed and my whole chair budget went out the window.  I'm trying to get ready for the big Luckett's Antique Show in May, so I'm saving pennies to buy furniture for the show...not redo my house furniture with.  Anyhoo, trying to pound in nailheads that are bent in every direction is not easy!

2) Don't use a big ol' hammer for the job.  I'm quickly finding that if I'm going to reupholster furniture, I'm going to have to break down and buy the right tools, like that expensive little tack hammer I saw.

3) Don't have your two-year old climbing on you as you are desperately trying to get those little nailheads straight! 

Isn't this bay window screaming for some curtain panels like this...

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This is the very beginning stages of my new creative space!  After five years of crafting, painting, jewelry-making on the dining room table, my nightstand, the floor next to my bed, a nook in the kitchen, or any other random space I could claim in our old house, I finally, finally have a room to call my own! 

This was going to be an office for my husband to use if he ever worked from home, but since that doesn't happen more than once a month, I'm takin' over!  I've been slowly moving my craft supplies from an upstairs closet and organizing...

And after living in our new house for six months, I think my clock collection finally has a new home...

I'll be working on this room over the next few months and I'll be sure to keep you updated.  As much as I want to work on it to get it all completed, I've got to get busy getting projects done for Luckett's!  Now...just one more thing...what to call this room?  Office, Studio, Craft Room?  What do you call your creative space?

Kristen

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