Vintage Rattan Chairs - Update In The Dining Room!
Vintage rattan chairs are perfect to contain into so many decorating styles from Grandmillennial to Chinoiserie Chic to Hollywood Regency! See how I changed the look in my dining room with these Ballard Pattern Dayna dupes!
Vintage Rattan Chairs – Update In The Dining Room
I'thousand excited to share my vintage rattan chair update in the dining room today! In a way this was an unexpected change, only one that I've been thinking about for some time. If you've been here for awhile then yous might have seen my recent dining table project. I showed you lot what I feel is the all-time way to paint article of furniture…and it's NOT chalk paint! While I was at it painting the Facebook Marketplace table (trash to treasure!) I painted my existing chairs.
These chairs went well with the table. You tin can find them still available HERE, and honestly they are lovely! Subsequently about v years with them though I accept been bored. 😝 Detect the legs on the table and the chairs. They are close to the same, but honestly I'k not a matchy-matchy person and I've been looking for something lighter in feel. Notation* I'grand storing the French fashion chairs as an option to utilize in the "winter" months. I say wintertime lightly, since it's always tropical downwardly hither!
Merely I digress…as I was scrolling Facebook Market. Typically I'll peruse FBMP a couple times a day when fourth dimension permits. Woah… upwardly popped this set of half dozen (four side chairs and ii armchairs). They were but what I was looking for!
I believe that they could be Henry Link cathedral chairs and if they are…well then...😱
Lucky me that the seller happened to live near around the corner, and they were priced at only a couple hundred bucks! 🙋♀️ When you find something that yous know others may covet on FBMP, bustle and exist nice to the seller. Don't act like an a_s and attempt and deal them downward also much. I've been both a heir-apparent AND seller of vintage since the 90's and find that the best way to negotiate is to just ask "can you do a little better on the price"?
The Original Expect Of The Vintage Rattan Chairs
The chairs had been recovered at some point and were already lacquer painted in a pure white. Lucky me again, since I just had to recover the chair seats which only took a few hours. But wait! When I began inspecting the seats I pulled the cambric off 1 to run into what I was dealing with. Behold…glorious vintage tropical barkcloth!
The Chippendale Dining Chairs Original Seats
Red just isn't for me, and so I started looking for pale bluish performance fabric. Of course I turned to Crypton Fabrics a company that I had gotten to know more about when I worked with the Design Blogger Tour at Loftier Bespeak Market place.
I ordered THIS Crypton cloth at just $xx a yard. It came quickly and I couldn't be more than pleased! It has a nice hand to it and was thick enough that I could just cover what was on the seats.
Simple Steps For Recovering Chair Seats
Kickoff of all, I am NOT a professional upholsterer past any means but I have done my share of home projects over the years! You will find THIS DIY UPHOLSTERY TUTORIAL useful that goes into it a scrap further. On these chairs, I decided to remove the piping and staple the fabric straight over the existing crimson fabric. The homeowner told me that they inappreciably e'er used the chairs and they were in excellent condition.
Cutting the piping and and then pulling it off was pretty straightforward. The only tip that I have here for you lot is that corners can be a bit tricky, so use a razor pocketknife to cut into the corner folds with a new bract.
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I laid out the fabric on my kitchen isle and measured then marked with a pencil. Be sure to go out at to the lowest degree ii″ all around to be able to pull your fabric taught. Put a staple in the centre offset of each of the four sides. And then you'll piece of work your way out from each staple to the ends. HERE is a groovy tutorial to watch on YouTube and there are enough of others.
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Corners come last and be sure to flip over the chair to meet that you're pulling tight enough in the corners.
The entire process took me no more than 3 hours at well-nigh for vi chairs. Don't be intimidated to take on projects like this, as I promise they aren't that difficult. Later on you exercise your first chair the rest will be much faster! Just make sure that when you order your material you mensurate correctly and purchase a fleck extra…only in case.
The Vintage Rattan Chairs Reveal!
I'm not sure if I'll add some contrasting piping and going to live with it for awhile first. When I took these photos I hadn't yet screwed the seats in identify, but I'll get around to information technology! As I mentioned, there are four of these vintage rattan side chairs and two arm chairs. Our dining area isn't very large, and so I opted to place the four side chairs around the table and an armchair on either side of the buffet.
Dining with a view around hither! I placed an oversized sea beat on the dining table and filled with a few oranges. Since it's currently summer, I enjoy keeping the decor light and uncluttered.
The vintage Thomasville cafe was a thrifted detect that I painted several years agone. Information technology'due south tropical expect mixed with my French finds give the room a Palm Beach Regency vibe…perfect for Miami life! Interesting side annotation: I have several of these HUGE shells that came from the old Miami home of Sly Stallone!
With our dining room facing west, nosotros have outdoor canvas roll downwards shades to block the afternoon sun. We installed this at least 25 years ago and had them custom made with marine grade canvas. One of the all-time things that we've ever done here! Anyone discover the photograph bomber 😻 outside?
I'm contemplating wallpaper side by side over the chair rail, only not 100% convinced. Nosotros plan on painting the interior of our home in the fall because information technology can use a fresh coat of paint. Not sure that I want to go downwards the rabbit hole of wallpaper, and so will see. Idea of something floral…as in my visualizer photo below. What practice you think?
I ordered a sample and it is definitely more on the green side then seen in the photos online. And so information technology might be back to the drawing board if I decide on going the wallpaper route.
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