DIY Seat Cushion

Now that the semester is over I have TONS (a little) free time to do projects that I've been waiting to do for months. Today the project was to recover a seat cushion. My roommate and I found a pair of chairs at an antique fair--OKAY FINE we found them on the street, and fell in love but the fabric on the seat was horrid. We each found super cute fabric and made them our own. Check it out:

Here is the chair once we removed the screws from underneath and the seat part popped out. See how boring and ugly that fabric was? They def needed a make-over. That blue scrap is fabric that I was playing around with but eventually decided against it.

Here is the frame of the chair. It's in great condition and the caning is PERFECT!

After removing the ugly fabric, we put two layers of batting and then the fabric on top and took a staple gun and secured it on the bottom side all the way around. It's important to pull it very tight. My roommate (above) chose Amy Butler fabric, August Fields Coreopis Fields from Fabric.com.

Then put the seat back on the chair and screw it back into the frame! YAY, now you have a fun fresh new side chair.

This is the fabric I chose. Isn't it fun? It was so fun to choose the fabric and to see what fabric my roommate chose. They're so different!

I'm so pleased with my fun red embroidered linen fabric! I think I might stain the chair a darker mahogany color but that's another project for another day.

Glamour Shot.

Next stop is throw pillows or some other fun sewing project! HERE is a helpful website explaining how to do the above project. It's honestly pretty easy and I didn't need to read up on how to do it. I'm that awesome.

Alicia B.

Loro Piana Interiors: Amazingness

I've always loved Loro Piana for their classic preppy style clothing (that I can't afford) so imagine my INTENSE GLEE when I saw they are designing fabrics for interiors, too! It is a to-the-trade only high end collection of cashmeres and linens and a line of carpets. Here is the interiors part on the website. So gorgeous!

These fabrics look so luxurious. I love how textured and soft they look. The colors are KILLING ME.

Scene from their new showroom which I believe they now have in the D & D building!

Showroom. And their carpets are off to the left!

Oh god, I love that color pink against the grey/beige window pane plaid.

On the website, they point out that the new line is "not just for the home, but for private yachts, planes and helicopters as well." I'm not even offended or saddened by that because I'm blinded by love.

Alicia B.