Chair Facelift Fabric Edition

After the chairs were painted, I focused my attention on what fabric I wanted for the reupholstery. I had been looking for about 2 weeks, but when I finished painting I knew it was time to pull the trigger on something! Initially, I was drawn to these chairs because of how unique the back is (like this stencil). You see patterns similar to it on fabric and wallpaper now.

This is a Dwell Casablanca Geo in Citrine. We love Dwell but felt if we went with this particular fabric it would be too matchy matchy. We searched and found 3 types of fabric that we liked: discontinued fabrics that we could no longer get, fabric that didn’t come in the right color, and fabric that was out of budget. Then Nick stumbled upon this ad via Emily Henderson’s blog.

Serena & Lily upholstery weight fabric for $9.99 per yard. In case you can’t see the original price was $50. Also it was an extra 40% off that. I was sold…and then I started over thinking. I didn’t care for the swatch view of the fabric, but I liked the it on a headboard.

Then I though about buying it in pink and making a headboard for Ramona. On the other hand, I could get the creamy neutral one and make drapes for the master. I was sold on drapes for the master, but the creamy fabric sold out before I had committed. (Typical but in my defense it was less than 24 hours from when I found the fabric to when I decided to get it for drapes.)

I went ahead and ordered 6 yards (about 4 yards more than what I need) in the green for the chairs. I really liked it on the bed and $46 for 6 yards of upholstery weight fabric (that just so happens to be Serena & Lily too) was too good of a deal to pass up. I wanted to make sure I had enough yardage for any mistakes or enough extra if I wanted to do something else with it. You know in case I don’t like the shade of green for the kitchen when I see it in person.

I plan on making the piping for the seat covers as well. Depending on the scale of the pattern, I might be searching for a coordinating solid to make the piping from. It is supposed to arrive in February, so fingers crossed it looks the same in person as it does on my computer screen.

*Update: See how the chairs turned out here.