My slipcover is being featured!

My slipcover is being featured over at Pink and Polkadot!  Kristi over there makes slipcovers for a living!  So, I'm very flattered.  I only wish I had my pillows done.  They haven't been born yet.

You can see the very ugly before shot here.  But good form, right?  That's what I saw.

Thank you Kristi! 



Dropcloth slipcover for the Goodwill couch.

It is finally done.  It's not that it took so long, it's just that it took so long to get to it!  argh!  But that's one more project down.  And I'm really trying to keep the new ideas to a bare minumum.  Browsing blogs makes it REALLY hard though.

 

I do need more pillows, working on that.  I want to get some feather pillow forms.  I think they make much better couch pillows.  This is the couch I got from the Goodwill for around 40 bucks!  It took 2 large $19 dropcloths.  I'm really pleased with it!

The before picture:

completely yucky, right?

Another thing done....

My cute footed ottoman finally made the "done" list.

This is a slipcover and I can pull it off and wash it any time!  Underneath is just a plain dropcloth new cover which is very dirty by now.  It has an odd mushroom shape to it.

Here it is with the chair that is "matches".

 And here is the sunken in mess it was before!  It was only a dollar though and probably five dollars worth of fabric.  Now I have a great little foot rest with cute feet and a washable cover!  I like it and I'm glad to have one more thing done! 

   
Linking this to MISS MUSTARD SEED'S party  and STYLE FEATURE SATURDAY party.

Slipcover Party!

here's the before, eek. sorry I didn't warn you. but it was 7 bucks and I really needed a chair!

Here she is.  I'm linking to the slipcover party put on by Pink and Polkadot today.

It's the prettiest chair in the house.  It all cost around $40. 

In context now....

just a little picture love here...

love this picture, oh yeah, this was about slipcovers....I still love this picture

I posted this same slipcovered chair some weeks back.  I don't know if I would have found the COURAGE to tackle this without the help of so many crazy, blogging, home decorating ladies out there.  I'm seriously thinking of devoted a link list just for tutorials.  OK, hopefully soon I can show my next slipcover project:

I got this for $39. huh? yeah. I want to use dropcloth for this. the lines............. 

Thank you Pink and Polkadot for hosting your slipcover party!

Slipcover complete

I'm linking to MissMustardSeed's

Furniture Feature Friday.

This chair cost me just at $40!

As you can see below, anything would have helped this chair.  Even a pillow made a huge difference, BUT, I swiped THOSE for my bedroom makeover.  So, after getting such inspiration from a great group of blogging women who also love renewing their nest constantly, I took the plunge here. 

One gal gave such a great tutorial on slipcovering that it loaded me up with all the confindence I needed to dig in, but I haven't been able to find that page again.  If you are her, please stand up and be recognized!  She suggested taking pictures of the piece and outline each piece, much like I am attempting to repeat here.  Anyway, it was a huge help.  You are basically dismantling a 3 dimentional object into various sizes of rectangles to then fine tune the exact shape as you go.   It brought some simplicity to the whole process. BREAKING NEWS:  I FOUND THE GAL.  You can see Pam's method over at Bibbiti Bobbity Beautiful!  thanks Pam!  It's a long post, but a great one.  Don't miss it.

The fabric was a mere $5 a yard at W-M.  The chair was around $7  The thing I liked most when I bought it was, well, the price.......and it was solid.  I didn't love the lines, but it was clean and I needed a chair, BAD!   I was getting ready to throw out  my very worn floral furniture when I came across it.  Furnishing your home really can be cheap!