Fresh New Look with Slipcovers

I love a good before and after picture and I have some great ones in this post.  This will show you how you can breathe new life into your old furniture.  I love the transformation of my customers living room with her new slipcovers and pillows.  The floral pillow was our inspiration and guide for colors.  We pulled the background color out for the sofa fabric and my customer fell in love with a natural linen fabric.  The sofa slipcover was finished a couple months ago and then my customer placed a slipcover order for the camel back loveseat, ottoman, cushion and several pillows done in the linen fabric. The first picture shows the living room in disarray ready for us to start staging. 

I love all the windows in this room!

In this picture you can see the before look of the ottoman and the camel back loveseat.  The ottoman received a layer of dacron to cover the deep tufting.

Before picture of the loveseat.

We replaced the two worn seat cushions with one new plump seat cushion.  This changed the whole look and feel of the loveseat.

 Then we added the pillows.  What a beautiful transformation!! My customer has a beautiful collection of pillows. Here is the new ottoman slipcover.

The sofa table was a new purchase that fits perfect behind the loveseat.

Here is a closeup of the linen fabric

Accessories added to the sofa table

Before picture of the sofa

New sofa slipcover with lots of pillows and all new cushion inserts

The new living room arrangement

New linen cushion cover for the rattan chair

Added a side table from the living room and tall flower arrangement

Here is the final look of the small sitting area with accessories.

French Grain Sacks and Knife Pleats Galore

My latest slipcovers were for my customer's keeping room.  She chose a beautiful pre-washed linen/cotton blend fabric that was a dream to work with.   I met with my customer and my friend/designer Carrin Andress of Chic Unique.  If you follow my blog then you already know how much I love Carrin. She has impeccable taste and helped with the design choices and details for the slipcovers. All the slipcovers were finished with knife pleated skirts and we also added knife pleated trim to the sofa pillows.  All new down pillow inserts were ordered and they look amazing.  

Carrin commissioned Jenni of the Vintage Songbird to make the custom grain sacks.  Carrin has worked with Jenni in the past and knew she did amazing work.  I am in love with all the printed french grain sacks Jenni designed.  The family has a passion for fine wine, beer,chocolate and cheese. The grain sacks are vintage french labels printed on drop cloth fabric- the three lumbar pillows were of a chocolate label, wine label and a beer label.   A vintage cheese label on top of the ottoman was my favorite.  I finished the ottoman slipcover in the matching drop cloth fabric.  What a great way to add your personal touch to your home.

You can follow the Vintage Songbird and Chic Unique on facebook.

I was very happy to be introduced to Jenni of Vintage Songbird and I would love to work with her in the future. So, If you would love to add the vintage grain sack look for pillows or slipcovers then give us a call. 

Here is a closeup of the linen/cotton blend fabric.

Before picture of the sofa and chair.

My customer is going to be painting her island black in the near future and we thought these cute knife pleated slipcovers done in the same linen/cotton blend fabric would help the bar stools stand out against the black paint.

Closeup of the sofa and pillows. The wine and beer label lumbar

 Before picture of sofa

 Inspiration picture from Pinterest - Knife pleated skirt

Custom printed vintage Chocolate label on lumbar pillow.

 Before picture of chair.

 A closeup of my favorite of the vintage label grain sacks- the cheese label on top of the ottoman slipcover.

 This is the inspiration picture that started the whole vintage grain sack printing idea. This ottoman can be purchased at Trovati Studio 

There are 2 great shows coming in May

 

 You will be able to find Chic Unique and many other amazing vendors at the Rural Society Antique and Garden Show on May 1-2.  I missed the show last year and I definitely do not want to miss it this year.  I hope to see you there!

Also, you will be able to find The Vintage Songbird at the French Hen Farm Spring Barn Sale on May 8-9. Vintage Songbird offers a whole lot more than what I have highlighted.  She has great furniture pieces and home decor.

Linking to:

Miss Mustard Seed

French Country Cottage
Shabby Nest

Custom Slipcovers Gallery- Oldies but Goodies

 This is a wide variety of slipcovers I have done..  These were all done before I had a blog and I thought I would share them with you.  I recently closed my Picturetrail account where they were being stored.  You can even see a photo stamp of my original logo.

Chair and ottoman- white denim slipcover with light blue cording 

Chair and ottoman slipcovers with fringe instead of cording

Photo stamp of original logo.

Barrel back chairs done in stripe fabric

Rocker slipcover- My first slipcover customer

Wing chair slipcovers- before and af

!st place winner in Slipcover Network Slipcover Design and Detail Contest

Basketball theme office chair slipcover

Cowboy fabric slipcover

side view of cowboy slipcover

designer's drawing

Finished result of designers drawing

Custom shaped dinette cushions done in Sunbrella fabric

another view of dinette cushions

Floral slipcover-perfect pattern matching

back view- perfect pattern match

Cushions with attached skirt

Another cushion with attached skirt done in same fabric for unity in the kitchen

Chair slipcover done in French Toile fabric imported from France

Side view

Back view

inspiration picture and after picture

Leather seat cushions

Before- retro style

After - retro style 

Settee slipcover with contrast fabric on cushion boxing.

White denim camelback settee slipcover

White denim settee slipcover

Slipcover for loveseat with attached back cushions

Sunbrella slipcover

Cute bench cushion with laced ties

Striped slipcover

 Before and after wing chair slipcover.  Another old photo stamp of original logo.

Velvet slipcovers