Wingback Chair Progress

I have been working on my Wingback Chair for a couple weeks, doing a little bit at a time. The hardest part has been taking out the millions and millions of staples! I mean seriously! I get it, the material needs to stay on but millions of staples really?!?!? My poor abused hands... okay enough complaining.

I have gotten all the material stripped off and the chair is in such great condition that I can reuse all of the padding and batting. I ordered my material from fabric.com, and supplies from diyupholsterysupply.com.

So, tomorrow I plan on painting the legs and starting the reupholstering process. When I complete the chair I will do a post on my process, before and after photos etc.

Here is what I have done so far:

Before

During; material stripped off

Craigslist Find - Milk Cans!!

I have been searching Craigslist everyday for cheap milk cans. Finally, I found exactly what I was looking for! Two milk cans in good condition; one is blue and rusted and the other one was painted. I am going to repaint the burgundy and gold one and probably leave the blue rusted one the way it is (treating it to prevent further rust).

ReStore Table, Before and After

I bought this table at the Habitat for Humanity Restore for $20, Silver Spray Paint and Primer $6 for a grand total of $26.00.

Before

After

Craigslist Chair - Before and After

I have completed my first chair!!! YAY me!

The chair cost me $0, the fabric was on clearance at Hobby Lobby for $5, plus a can of black satin spray paint, and primer $6 for a grand total of $11.00.
Here are the pictures:

Flea Market Haul

I have been driving by a flea market off of Highway 380 for months, and I kept saying that I need to go and take a look around as I drove by. So finally after a few months I finally made a trip over there.

Here is what I found!

$8 stool in good condition, perfect for my Wingback chair.

$1 Ball Jar in Blueish Green/Teal color 

$10 Old Trivet and Iron

Fabric Choices

Here are my fabric choices for the Wingback Chair and the little antique chair. I ordered from www.fabric.com, they will be arriving in a couple days.

Osnaburg 45'' Natural $3.98 a yard
Inside/cushion for the Wingback, and the seat of the antique chair

Premier Prints Zippy Slub Charcoal $8.48 a yard
Outside of the Wingback chair

Craigslist Finds... continued

I am slightly obsessed with Craigslist (no seriously just slightly); I have the app on my phone and I check listings late and night and first thing in the morning, and sometimes in between.

So I found a couple "new" pieces of furniture for the house.

Dresser for the husband (I think the flowers in the center need t go bye bye)
I will be repainting this.

Two adjustable bar stools for the counter for the kitchen/dinning area

Chest with two drawers and casters for the guest bedroom
(I will be refinishing this item)

Little chair for the media center thingy in the living/dinning room area.
It needs to be repainted (bad paint job), the legs are a little wobbly.
I have ordered the new fabric to recover the seat

Detail of the top

I am excited about my finds! I have vacation time coming up next week and school is out until the spring semester; fabric has been ordered and supplies have been purchased. Time to get to work!