UNCLE RONNIES CONTRIBUTION - shabby chic toile dining chairs

The truth is almost 30 chairs have come into this house

over the last month from one place or another.

I think the Chairs for Charity Auction has something to do with it,

I'm sure it's a conspiracy and I will get to the bottom of it or die trying to get them all done.

These 4 tired 70's dining chairs came to me via Uncle Ronnie.

While I was working on the last set all propped up in the driveway

he stopped in to let me know they were on the roadside just up the street.

Bird poop and all

Great Upholstery ... oh the memories!

Some arms missing ... of course both left arms.

So I amputated the 2 remaining right arms, cleaned, and repaired everything

They got a sprayed coat of a custom blue I mixed.

Plz don't asked about this color ... I started with Provence but it was like a mad scientist's lab on the kitchen counter while I added a touch of this and a drop of that trying to achieve something.

BTW I didn't achieve what I wanted.

Then I dry brushed a light grey over the blue,

but it didn't give me the light bright overall appearance I really wanted.

So they all got a good painting of white and because of a few rain showers

they got to dry in the kitchen.

My cat doesn't get to go on the kitchen island but apparently freshly painted furniture does!

I still wanted a punch of the blue to come thru so they

got a good edge sanding to bring it out.

This time I did have the black toile in the house,

I had picked it up with the red toile that I purchased for the last set of chairs.

The first layer of upholstery is more durable drop cloth

then covered with the toile.

Don't forget you all marked your calendar for this Thursday's

*CHAIRS FOR CHARITY*

at

The Passionate Home

20605 Fraser Hwy Langley

18 RECLAIMED chairs have thoughtfully been
RESTYLED into beautiful themed thrones,
some come with celebrity autographs

Each will be auctioned off the evening of Thursday, October 27, 2011
benefiting the Langley Christmas Bureau.

four celebrity chairs will go on the LIVE auction block at 7:00pm
with the remaining chairs available through silent auction bids in store all day long

10:00am - 7:30pm.

Below you can see all the chairs and celebs

HGTV's CASH & CARI

comes with autographed photo

Mayor Peter Fassbender

Mayor of the City of Langley

 

Gabrielle Miller

Actress from "Corner Gas" fame

comes with autographed photo

1 Fish 2 Fish

Langley's BEST Seafood Market

comes with autographed photo

McBurney Junction Furniture

neighbours of the Passionate Home

Forever Yours Lingerie

Langley's one stop Lingerie Shop

Comes with autographed photo

Well Seasoned

Gourmet Food Store

Bruce Sellery

Journalist, Speaker, Author

comes with autographed book "Moolala"

Mike Mason Author

Comes with a signed copy of his book "The Blue Umbrella" 

Lucy Adams Artist

Chair canvas will be painted by the artist herself!

BC Lions

Comes with autographed team poster

Langley Rivermen

Langley's Junior A Hockey Team

comes with autographed team photo

Our very own

Passionate Home 

Starbucks

2 Coffee Chairs from their Power Centre location

Starbucks Big Easy Chair

take home a piece of Starbucks history

To wrap up the list Elinor will be creating a "Vintage E" chair

and there will have a chair that represents the

LANGLEY CHRISTMAS BUREAU

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TOILE UPHOLSTERY AND SOME INFO - french country chairs

The weather here has been so nice I have been running ragged working outside

getting all sorts of projects painted. Unfortunately not all of them get finished in order

as the next day ends up with the sun shining again so I start another, saving the final touches

for colder wetter days coming.

But I have managed to get something finally finished to share with you.

A little birdy recently dropped off these 4 pretty chairs asking if I thought I

could make them over and have someone love them again.

I just love the warm patina worn into the wood so of course I wanted to work with them.

I sprayed them black, sanded them smooth with a bit of distressing, and finished them with some wax.

I kept some of the beauty of the wood showing by not painting the seats.

I removed any old wood, upholstery, and all the nails.

I started to replace the seat upholstery with drop cloth stapled in place.

Then the right amount of cotton padding,

Before covering that with a heavy layer of vinyl to smooth out any lumps in the cotton

I tried several different fabric ideas but kept coming back to a red toile.
(I've added a bit of info about Toile fabric below)

This time I had to run to the fabric store cause I just didn't have any hiding around the house.

I cut and stapled each upholstery scene in place.

Before finally hot gluing trim to conceal the staples.

A set of 4 lovely French Country Chairs are now listed on the AVAILABLE page.

I thought you might like to read a bit about TOILE fabric:

Toile de Jouy, sometimes abbreviated to simply "toile", is a type of decorating pattern consisting of a usually white or off-white background on which a repeated pattern depicting a fairly complex scene, generally of a pastoral theme such as (for example) a couple having a picnic by a lake. Toiles also often consist of an arrangement of flowers. The pattern portion consists of a single color, most often black, dark red, or blue. Greens, browns, and magenta toile patterns are less common, but not unheard of. Toile is most associated with fabrics (curtains and upholstery in particular), though toile wallpaper is also popular. Toile can also be used on teapots, beddings, clothing, etc. In upper-class (primarily American, but also northern European) society, toile is often seen on dresses or aprons used at such events as country-themed garden parties or tea parties.

Toile de Jouy originated in France in the late 18th century. In the French language, the phrase literally means "cloth from Jouy-en-Josas", a town of north-central France. Although it has been continuously produced since then, it experienced a marked upsurge in popularity around the year 2000. Previously only a decorating design, designers have been recently experimenting with toile-patterned apparel as well, although toile-patterned shirts were widely worn in the 1970s.

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