Go over and inspect the item. Note its sturdy construction, its cute tapered 50s legs. Marvel at its gorgeously tiny height (it will come up to your knees). Observe that whatever fabric was originally used to upholster it, has been thoughtfully ripped off, leaving only the foam padding. How perfect!
Take the chair home. Leave it in your spare room for a few weeks while you think about random fabric combinations in your head.
After many false starts and changes of mind, finally decide on Pressed Flowers in Rose, from Anna Maria Horner's Drawing Room collection. Purchase loads of it on sale on Etsy (and maybe put some of it aside for a skirt while you're at it, aren't those colours amazing?).
Explain that you need this made up - not for yourself, nor for your children (of which you have none) - but for the pussins, who have decided the tiny chair is the perfect throne for them. Ideally sized. Beautifully rounded. Like it was made for them. Withstand the disbelieving gaze of the upholsterer. Request some piping around the edges.
Return a week later. Hey presto! You've grown a stunning hero piece.
And the pussins love it. That's the main thing.
6 comments:
Its amazing what you can find lying around in suburbia!
I would have picked it up and taken it home too.
Lucky kitties! It looks beautiful.
your super lucky and spoilt pussins having such a fabulous mama! blackpussins (i can't bring myself to call him fatpuss, so he is blackpuss in my head) looks like he is firmly declaring his ownership of the chair while grimth appears to be woefully telling his mama that blackpuss won't share
What an amazing chair - looks beautiful with the Anna Maria Horner make-over!
Fantastique! I'm a bit partial to a bit of furniture re-covery....
WHAT A FIND! Well done. There is nothing more satisfying than making something you love from a TOTAl bargain!
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