Short story long...
I've been thinking off and on about doing an "ancient world map" themed room for several years now, long before I moved to Minneapolis. But you know me... I'd buy a few things here and there and never really put anything together. (Finish something I start?? What's that like?) As part of that half-assed effort, I bought some upholstery fabric on eBay (also years ago) with no defined project in mind and it just sat in a box in a closet.
Seemingly unrelated, I have two matching chairs that I inherited indirectly from my grandfather. (My mom and my uncle inherited one each and both gave them to me.) In the early 90s we had the cushions reupholstered to match my very first couch that I bought myself. That couch eventually found a permanent home in my parents' basement living room because it was too heavy (a sleeper sofa) to move again. So the cushions on these chairs haven't really matched anything for many years and I've just been covering them with blankets and such because that's how fancy I am.
Not sure what got into me last month, but I dug out that upholstery fabric and took it and the cushions from one of the chairs (the other is in my bedroom) to an upholstery shop I found online, A-1 Foam and Upholstery. They told me they were busy and probably wouldn't be able to start on them until the first week of October, but I got a call yesterday saying they were done!
I'd also taken in the pillows that came with my current couch and matching chair. They were the same burgundy microfiber as the couch on one side and some gross color I hated that didn't match anything else I owned on the other. Now they're the same microfiber on one side and this new map fabric on the other. Now I have an at least somewhat coordinated living room again!
This wasn't the clearest picture (of the dozens I took trying to get one I liked), but it has the most cats in it. Priorities.
Also, not sure if you can tell from the photos, but that lampshade beside the chair and the tapestry hanging above the couch are both ancient world maps. Give me another few years and maybe this room will be complete.
Seemingly unrelated, I have two matching chairs that I inherited indirectly from my grandfather. (My mom and my uncle inherited one each and both gave them to me.) In the early 90s we had the cushions reupholstered to match my very first couch that I bought myself. That couch eventually found a permanent home in my parents' basement living room because it was too heavy (a sleeper sofa) to move again. So the cushions on these chairs haven't really matched anything for many years and I've just been covering them with blankets and such because that's how fancy I am.
Not sure what got into me last month, but I dug out that upholstery fabric and took it and the cushions from one of the chairs (the other is in my bedroom) to an upholstery shop I found online, A-1 Foam and Upholstery. They told me they were busy and probably wouldn't be able to start on them until the first week of October, but I got a call yesterday saying they were done!
I'd also taken in the pillows that came with my current couch and matching chair. They were the same burgundy microfiber as the couch on one side and some gross color I hated that didn't match anything else I owned on the other. Now they're the same microfiber on one side and this new map fabric on the other. Now I have an at least somewhat coordinated living room again!
This wasn't the clearest picture (of the dozens I took trying to get one I liked), but it has the most cats in it. Priorities.
Also, not sure if you can tell from the photos, but that lampshade beside the chair and the tapestry hanging above the couch are both ancient world maps. Give me another few years and maybe this room will be complete.