My Favorite Chair

When Jeff and I celebrated our anniversary, we wanted to get an upholstered chair from EQ3 that had the "hersey kiss fabric". They didn't call it that, we did... Jeff saved his money so he could buy it for me. It was going to cost more than most cars that he purchased. When we went down to EQ3, they had discontinued the fabric and nothing else spoke to us in the store. Bummer. It was a nice thought though...

Well, I can't remember exactly when I saw this chair but it wasn't much long after that. It was on the curb down my VCU. It was covered in orange burlap. It was ugly but it had potential. I loved the lines of the chair. I drove home and told Jeff about it. He looked at me like I was crazy. He thought that once we start picking up stuff of the side of the road, then there was no stopping the hoarding... We lived in a cramped row house in the fan of 1000 sq ft or so. It already had all the furniture it needed but I wanted this chair! I convinced him to get in the car and go look at it.

He saw the chair and loved it too but still had reservations of taking it. It started to rain. He said that we better get it before it gets rained on... We loaded it up quickly and sped off before the people changed their minds.

We looked and looked for fabric. We kept coming back to this fabric which we called "the green-T fabric" because it had a bunch of T's in the print. It was a Kauffman print and we could only find 3-4 yards of it. We search and searched and finally I found 10 yards of it on ebay for $100. I jumped on it. We didn't know what we were doing so the chair (in pieces) and fabric sat around for about a year. The first Christmas at our new house, my parents came to visit. They are big into upholstery so they helped us reupholster it. It turned out great. The fabric isn't the best upholstery fabric but it worked out well.



As you can see, this is also someone else's favorite chair. ...and no, we haven't gone dumpster diving since, I think.