Picture the scene, I am at an auction and am supposed to be selling off unwanted furniture. If you have been to auctions, you know there is a lot of waiting around for your lots, and there are also a lot of chairs about that you sit in whilst waiting for the said lots.

So I realise that I am sitting in a really comfortable chair, and it is tired and sad, but it has a really pretty shape and is probably Edwardian.  So when it comes up as a lot, and no-one bids I stick up my hand.  I felt sorry for it.

And so I came home from the auction with a little tired chair for a very small price, not really what I went for.. I don’t think I really should go to auctions.

The chair sat in our house looking battered and tired for a long while.  But it was very popular, as it is just so comfy.  It’s like Goldilocks’ best baby chair in fact.  I scoured the internet for upholstery lessons to give it a revamp, but it all looked far too complicated.  And thus it lived draped in blankets for a long, long time.

Cut to a year later, and I remembered that someone I know is an upholsterer.  With a quick call, the chair was delivered, and I was off on the hunt for fabric.  I really wanted some House of Hackney fabric, but it would have cost a fortune as the chair needed a few meters, so I had to be creative and scour the internet.

If you follow the blog, you will know that orange is creeping into my house a lot.  So I decided that the chair needed a massive jazz up and orange was my new black, so I found some raised velvet fabric of orange on a sort of hessian base.  It is like a psychedelic Indian curry house in the 70’s, but I sort of like it!  It also was a total bargain on eBay, and I got about 7 meters in total so I have some left over to play with.  I then found a lovely orange plain velvet to go in the inner part of the chair.

I then handed it all over to my clever upholsterer Caroline, and waited for the finished result.

Lo and behold, soon it was ready and this bonkers chair was ready for its new home:

She looks so pretty!  And so ORANGE!  She has had her innards re-plumped as well, so is even more comfortable, and is my favourite companion as I watch far too many episodes of Stranger Things in one sitting.  As yuletide nears, I am loathe to share her when the relatives arrive.  Happy Christmas!