Maybe I should call it 're-decorating'? Either way, that's what I'm up to. Or, as I like to call it, 'what a girl turns to when shopping for clothes becomes a source of depression'.
I've up-heaved the whole downstairs of our house and the change has been DRAMATIC. It all started with these chairs I found at a consignment store:
Now, I know what you're thinking, (because pretty much every friend of mine who saw the chairs right after I bought them told me as much). You're thiking, "Yeah, those are awesome. If you're trying to re-create the movie set of Weekend at Bernie's." Well, they struck me as more 'Boogie Nights', but that's neither here nor there.
YES, the fabric was atrocious. But I could see past that. YES, the table was overkill, but luckily they didn't make me take that with me (even though they made me PAY for it). It was the CHAIRS I fell in love with. Lately these lucite-ish chairs are absolutely everywhere in design...and they AREN'T cheap.
In fact, I found a pair of my EXACT chairs on 1stdibs.com (the most drool-tastic site EVER), and GUESS WHAT THEY ARE SELLING FOR? $2200. For two.
Guess how much I paid for mine? I haggled them down to $125. For all SIX chairs.
Can someone hand me my horn? Because I'd like to toot it, please.
There is something about me that can't help sharing with EVERYONE how much I paid for something when I get a great deal. "Nice purse!" they might say, in passing. Which, in turn, might lead to me saying, "OH REALLY YOU LIKE IT BECAUSE GUESS WHAT, I USED THREE COUPONS AT CHECKOUT AND IT WAS ALREADY 40% OFF SO I GOT IT FOR THIRTY-SEVEN DOLLARS AND TWENTY-TWO CENTS WHICH IS CRAZY BECAUSE IT'S ALL LEATHER, RIGHT?!" Chris thinks I should just keep my yap closed and let everyone believe I paid hand over fist for everything...but I really think he'd just like to me to keep it closed in general. Let's call that what it is.
Let's get back on track. So, blah blah blah, one thing leads to another, I finally find the right fabric, I sew the cording myself (!!), re-upholster the chairs myself (!!), polish up the chrome and lucite (made Chris help with that part) and TAA-DAA!! The finished product. I think they're sweet.
P.S. See that turquoise-ish filigree mirror in the background? Goodwill. $20. It used to be a hideous forest green with metallic gold accents. But THAT is another post for another time.
2 comments:
Okay, SmartyPants, where is your table from? I love it.
PS: So, so tired of perusing only the Accessories sections of cool online stores. Want. cute. clothes. NOW.
never in a MILLION years would i have seen those chairs and then seen in your head where you were taking them and how awesome they look... way to go. i have a terrible-tacky-uncool-left-over -from-the-divorce-and-my-dorm-room style going on, wished you lived next door to help :-)
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