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January 17th, 2008
before and after: slipcovered chair

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stephanie dodge of lealou sent over this beautiful before and after project i couldn’t resist sharing today. she turned this great little mid-century chair with tapered legs into a sleek, easy-to-clean piece with this nice white slipcover. i’m a big slipcover fan because well, we’re not the neatest people in the world and i’ve been known to accidentally spill wine, soy sauce and pepsi on our couch (whoops). but with a slipcover it’s just a wash away from clean. thanks so much to stephanie for sharing! [need a slipcover tutorial? click here, here, here, and here for directions and photos]

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8 comments
Angie Montreal said:
January 17th, 2008 - 11:08 am

I like the slipcover, but I also like the before pic! Now she can play with two different looks, cute!

joanna goddard said:
January 17th, 2008 - 12:10 pm

wow! this before and after is really fantastic.

chic said:
January 17th, 2008 - 12:52 pm

very nice

lealou said:
January 17th, 2008 - 1:21 pm

Thanks Grace!

Courtney Baker said:
January 17th, 2008 - 2:20 pm

I’m wondering how Stephanie made the slipcover thick enough to not show the green print. I’ve had trouble with this! I’m still a fairly novice sewer, but I have slipcovered one chair fairly successfully except that you can see the chair’s original color through the duck cloth.

lealou said:
January 17th, 2008 - 3:33 pm

Hi Courtney! I took the flowery print off the chair — it was pretty tattered from my cat. Underneath was sparkly green vinyl — also lovely… ;) and the fabric I used is actually thick enough that you can’t see the green through it. Perhaps a light interfacing fabric might prevent the original fabric from showing through…

Steph

Denise Smith said:
January 17th, 2008 - 3:37 pm

Personally, I prefer the Before. I have whole rooms conjured up…A tiki bedroom…in a foyer with equally loud wallpaper…

Courtney Baker said:
January 17th, 2008 - 6:06 pm

Thanks Stephanie! I have two matching chairs just like yours that are vinyl as well… they are the same size but one is green and one is orange. I have yet to use interfacing, but I think that would do the trick! Thanks for inspiring me to move forward with covering mine :)

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