Confessions of a Chair Junkie...

... Okay, so here goes....
Yesterday hubby and I went to an auction and right before the chairs that I had been drooling at came up for bid, he tells me that he is tired and ready to go home....

I am not a happy camper. I figured that they would go for a good chunk of change and I wouldn't get them, but I at least wanted to see them in all their glory, posing before the hungry masses with the same little.. um...problem that I have..... "gotta-have-that-chair-syndrome". Anyway, so he sees that I'm not happy and says , " You might want to think about getting help for your chair addiction... !

Needless to say the ride home was a very loooong silent drive. His attempts at changing the subject didn't work. I answered in curt "yes", "no" fashion. I didn't want to let it go.........

How did this compulsion start, you might ask ?
It was just an innocent little leopard.. I was decorating the master bedroom about 5 years ago, in a British Colonial flair and I wanted a chair next to my bedside table . Being the thrifty gal that I am, I took a floral chair from the living room and decided to see if it had any potential. Obviously, the rose and blue flower fabric was not going to work in this new setting. To make a long story a little shorter, I ended up finding the perfect leopard print fabric and without previous experience, set out to recover it. ... Well, to say that I was pleased was an understatement... I had created a whole new chair in just a couple of hours and this is how my addiction started:

So, I was feeling quite confident and the search for a new chair was constantly on my mind. I found the next chair at a garage sale for $1 and brought it home with no idea of what to do. I needed a little accent chair for my dining room

to go with my blue and white dishes, so after painting

it white, I decoupaged it with spode napkins....

and "voila"... the next chair was born...perfect for my room. (It's the one with the sunflowers at the begining of the post...still don't know how to move things around... )

So this was the next.... ahem.... victim. Somebody's old dining room chair donated to GoodWill.
A little white paint, black accents and a dashing black and white damask cover was all it took to get Cinderella to the ball. So you might call me the Fairy Godmother... LOL...
Here she is :

... Frannie Fringe.... before

And here she is AFTER.............................

I used different fabric on the underside , so I could flip it for a different look.....

This is an antique gooseneck rocker that I recovered for a neighbor... I wish I had taken a before picture... it was dark and dingy with brown and maroon stripes. This fabric was gorgeous.

This beautiful wingback chair was given to me from my mother-in-law. What a great gift. I love it . It's a needle point fabric.

Okay, so the next chairs are waiting for makeovers.... Any suggestions? I might put them in a local antique mall or keep them....he he

So there you have it. .... Do you want to join me in Chair Junkie's therapy?..... Pull up a chair! Oh....no, not THAT one, I need to add a little more fringe to it... On second thought why don't we just go to the antique store and see what kind of "damage" we can do!!!