My favorite chair

When I started this furniture journey I never considered upholstery. 

Painting was fun. 

Learning how to fix and rebuild and sand and stain and sand some more. 

That was all great. 

recovering a few chair seats here and there was great too. Loved looking at fabric and choosing something that I thought would really update a piece. 

Loved all of it. 

Upholstery? 

Scared the living daylights out of me. 

Doing my first couch.......terrifying!

I've done a few now. 

Not as terrifying as it used to be. 

So when I spotted this chair at one of my favorite picking spots I knew it had to come home with me. 

The material was in such good shape that I seriously considered leaving it alone. 

The only thing that stopped me was my evil brain. 

You see when I see a piece like this I can never stop wondering. 

Wondering what happened on that chair. Were there leaky diapers? A dog or cat that left something that may have been cleaned off the top but maybe soaked through? 

You just never know. 

So off it came. 

 I painted the wood

 New everything

 Different material for front and back

And a "new" chair was born. 

So what do you think? Would you have left it alone? 

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