We all have at least one. It's that piece of furniture you inherited or acquired and you just can't give it away but don't know what to do with it. Mine was a well constructed wingback chair that my grandmother gave me. With frayed silk fabric and a cushion as hard as a phone book it sat in storage for more than a decade until I got the courage and inspiration to reupholster it.
The first thing to go was the mahogany legs. My architect husband Michael McKinley has issued a moratorium on what he calls "brown" furniture so I painted the legs a grey/black and found the fabric at the Griswold Textile Print Factory store in Westerly at the bargain price of $13/yard.
You can plan on using 8 yards of fabric and spending approximately $800 to upholster a wingback chair. The total cost of my "new" chair was under a thousand dollars which is considerably less than what you would pay for a high quality upholstered chair.
Today, the wingback chair that was once hidden away is now an eye catching centerpiece in our living room.
Here is a link to Griswold Textile Print in Westerly:http://www.griswoldtextile.com/
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