Makeover: front room chairs

I found this pillow at the thrift store a few weeks ago and I think it was actually sitting there, waiting for me.

It's the perfect shape and size to sit on the brown chair in my front room. It's a really nice quality pillow, too--down insert, zippered cover with cut velvet in a damask design, and it just happens to be the exact color of my walls. Love!

The other chairs in my front room are getting a makeover too:

I'm finally getting around to recovering the seats with fabric I bought months ago, originally intended for the cushions of my kitchen chairs. When I got my new table two weeks ago, I planned to put out the chairs for a charity pickup (the table literally fell apart so it's unfortunately headed to the dump). However, the cushions were in such bad shape that the charity wouldn't have taken them like that, so I recovered them before I set them out on my curb. They looked 1000% better and I was kicking myself all day for not doing it earlier, when I could actually have enjoyed them. Sheesh.

I have lots of red fabric leftover so I decided to give my small chairs a face lift as well. I bought these chairs from Goodwill for $15 each a couple of years ago. The fabric covers are darling and in excellent condition, but the colors (a fantastic 1970s mix of avocado green, orange and bright pink) match precisely nothing in my house, so I finally decided they should go. Except I didn't really get rid of them--I just put the new red fabric over the top, so in case I get a sudden wild hair to redo my house in olive green and orange, I'll have just the chairs to match.

Unfortunately, this recovering job is a bit more involved than the kitchen chairs, so it's taking a lot longer. When I originally purchased the chairs, I took them all completely apart and reglued each joint. I must not have done a really great job, however, because they're wobbly again, and when you sit down on one it creaks like total collapse is imminent. While I've got the seats off, I'm going to reglue all of the loose joints and get them back into good shape so my guests aren't scared to sit on them. In the end, I'll have nice sturdy chairs with cute new cushions that finally match my room. Not a bad payoff for a few hours' work!