Textile Tuesday: Vintage Furniture Transformations

Lacefield customers often comment on the unique upholstery pieces we feature in our catalogs and on our website.  Even junky old thrift store furniture can become eye candy with a simple upholstery job in one of our signature print textiles. Throughout the year we scour antique markets, Craigslist, Goodwill stores and local thrift shops for inexpensive, distinctive furniture for Lacefield photo shoots.  Here are some of our favorite finds in all their thrift store glory, alongside their beautiful transformations:

A vintage granny wingback is transformed with Lacefield Bengali Grey textile

These hotel surplus dining chairs now look like French antiques with a little help from
Annie Sloan Chalk Paint and Lacefield Bombay Cobalt and Bombay Mist textiles

Lacefield Isla Spring textile breathes new life into this settee

An assortment of vintage chairs are revived with Annie Sloan Chalk Paint
and Lacefield Jasmine Seaglass & Trellis Mist textiles

This curvy beauty was brought into the 21st Century with Lacefield Madras Bisque textile

A cheap chain store wing chair gets a classic update with our Serengeti Coral textile

We use a wonderful local upholstery shop for the pieces shown in our photo shoots, but after an amazing weekend of networking with DIY bloggers at Haven Conference, I feel inspired to learn how to upholster some smaller pieces myself.  There is a great new upholstery guide book on the market, written by professional upholsterer, Amanda Brown. The extremely talented and resourceful Brown runs Spruce, a furniture redesign firm in Austin, Texas.  Would you be brave enough to take on an upholstery DIY project? 

Spruce by Amanda Brown is available HERE