Buttons, Piping, and Refinishing: Faux Eames Reupholstered

We picked up the new fabric along with the button kits at Joann's Fabric and got to work on the buttons and piping. The button project proved a bit difficult because the supplied backs in the kit were too flimsy. We used some buttons we had lying around that happened to be the right size. The kit had a fabric template so we cut it to shape, applied some fabric glue, and jammed the button in the back. I wish it was as easy as that, my wife spent quite a bit of time finessing these buttons into shape and her hard work paid off. While all of my attempts failed miserably. 

 

The Deconstruction: Faux Eames Reupholstered

We picked up two of these faux Eames lounge chairs off of craigslist a few years back and we've finally re-upholstered one of them. Here you can see how faded the fabric was and the ripped arm rest. The cushion was also non-existent. So we took the whole thing apart and refinished the wood, added new foam, buttons and fabric. 

Mid-Century Hi-Fi Restored

We picked up this old mid century hi-fi stand awhile back, but it needed a fair amount of work. There were a lot of blemishes on the wood and the previous owner started drilling holes in the white support pieces trying to remove them (I assume they didn't have a saw). So we cleaned it up and patched the holes and added some additional support . Then we stripped it down and refinished it

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Re-Upholstered Erik Buch Chairs

We bought a gate-leg table a few years back and refinished it, but the chairs still needed to be reupholstered.  As you can see the fabric had a number of stains, their previous life was in the former owner's basement as a kids arts and crafts table. We took the chairs to Modern Chair Restoration up in Catonsville, MD. We saw a post on their blog detailing a re-upholstery job of our same Erik Buch chairs. Katherine did a fantastic job and even gave us some great tips on how to re-upholster faux Eams lounge chairs (we just finished one and it turned out great, the posts are in the works).

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