Living Room Chair

Slowly (very slowly) I am starting on making this house our home. I have LOTS of work ahead of me!

I have currently been painting the house. I started in the kitchen and am working through the living room. When everything is finished I will post pictures. Having a popcorn texture ceiling with knock-down texture walls sure does slow down the process!

Anyway, I have fallen in love with wing back chairs. They’re not too gaudy and they lend an antique touch to an otherwise modern living room. We have a comfy, micro suede, double-reclining couch that I instantly envisioned my husband relaxing on when I saw it in the store. It didn’t exactly match my taste for esthetics, but as I sit here on it I’m glad I got it!

Back to the wing back chair…I’ve seen many tutorials on Pinterest (and repinned them!) on reupholstering wing back chairs found for $8-$15 at Goodwill, yard sales and Craigslist. I’ve also seen some tutorials painting the fabric that seemed interesting to me. However, I couldn’t find a nice wing back on Craigslist that I wanted to make a project out of. I have enough on my hands currently to tackle that project as well!

I didn’t know whether a wing back would mesh with our furniture, but then I saw this picture on Houzz.com (FAB-oulous site…check it out!) and I realized it totally could be done.

See the powder blue wing back chair facing the modern seating? Oh yeah, it works nicely!

I suppressed the urge to stick my tongue out at my husband when he complained about an “old-fashioned chair” in the living room, but I knew what I was doing.

I was perusing my “For the Home” board on Pinterest when I came across this long-forgotten image:

Striped slip cover on wing back chair

Would you believe it…I found THIS chair on Craigslist?!

Yeah, no kidding. It was $100…about $70 more than what I wanted to spend. I figured I could buy a cheap one and reupholster it or paint it, but this one was striped like in my inspiration photo. Upon further conversation with the owner, I learned that this chair was only used as decoration and that it had only been sat on about 5 times. My inner interior decorator was doing somersaults. I was sold.

So, off I went (after making sure my hubby was O.K. with it).

The picture did it no justice.

Making a mental note of thanking my father-in-law (once again) for suggested I buy these bungee cords, I loaded my treasure into my car.

I put it into my living room and I jumped for joy! The real kicker was when I noticed the brand name tag under the seat. Broyhill Furniture. It was then that I REALLY jumped for joy as I realized that I could have potentially snagged a $700+ chair for a fraction of the cost. No reupholstering. No potentially ruined fabric by painting. I got a mint condition Broyhill wing back chair on Craigslist and brought her home all by myself. Elated doesn’t begin to cover it :)