New chairs.

September 24th, 2007 | Category: house, scavenged

danish chairs (temporary fabric)

We bought these lovely Danish chairs at Iron Fish across the river in Beacon over the weekend. The teak wood is really in perfect condition, with a nicer grain than any other chairs like this I’ve seen. The original cushions were intact, but the fabric was truly hideous (sort of a blue and gold brocade—that might sound okay, but trust me, it wasn’t), so my mother and I spent a few hours last night wrapping unbleached linen around them as a temporary measure until we can have new cushions properly made.

10 Comments so far

  1. Adam September 25th, 2007 8:35 am

    Those are very nice chairs. Do you think you will have the permanent seat cushions made out of the same linen?

  2. Anna at D16 September 25th, 2007 8:49 am

    I don’t think so, but it really depends on what we decide to do about a sofa. I used the linen mainly because I already had a ton of it on hand, and it does look good with everything. :)

  3. Adam September 25th, 2007 9:43 am

    It does look good. I believe I am getting a “recycled leather” sofa and chair fairly shortly, I am tired of my living room furniture, and tired of vacuuming pet hair off of it.

  4. Anna at D16 September 25th, 2007 1:24 pm

    I sat in this distressed-leather sofa with down cushions over the weekend, and it was HEAVEN. Not my style, but it was seriously the most comfortable sofa I’ve ever climbed into. It’s also 4 feet deep! Evan lay down on it, and it looked like he was being eaten alive.

  5. jan September 25th, 2007 3:35 pm

    i’m so jealous of your new chairs!

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  7. sulu-design October 4th, 2007 4:27 pm

    Lovely new chairs! I’m so glad that you showed this temporary wrapping solution. The cushions on my chair and sofa that are similar in design are in bad need of reupholstering. This may be the solution for now.

  8. Christiane October 5th, 2007 10:04 am

    Ok, call me morbidly curious, but I really want to see the original fabric! I trust that it is truly hideous, but I want to see it anyway ;-)

  9. Anna at D16 October 5th, 2007 10:11 am

    Haha! Christiane! The original fabric is all stitched up inside, so I can’t take a photo. It’s gross, though, really…super heavy and thick, kind of shiny, and textured.

    I’ll be sure to document it when I replace the cushions. :)

  10. Door Sixteen » SofaQuest 2007: the Winner! October 22nd, 2007 1:42 pm

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