Several years ago Cindy decided she wanted to try her hand at an upholstery project; she has been an accomplished seamstress most of her life, but had never done upholstery, so she thought that might be fun.
One of the chairs in the living room had become the target of choice for Grady, one of our more neurotic cats. I had inherited Grady from my computer guy years before; he was a beautiful, steel gray cat, but an emotional mess. He had the unpleasant habit of wetting in unauthorized locations whenever the spirit moved him to do so, and we often didn't discover the spot until much later. Further, once he had started on a location, he often went back to it again and again.
So you can probably guess exactly why we needed to reupholster the chair.
After Cindy stripped off the old cloth and foam padding, it seemed like a much bigger job than she had originally anticipated, so the frame of the chair sat in the garage for several years. We finally decided to just get rid of it and put it out on the street during a neighborhood-wide yard sale, but nobody took it. But looking at the frame from a different angle gave Cindy the idea to make a succulent garden or plant stand out of it, so we carted it back into the garage. I painted it the same color as the trim on our house, and we finally carried it out to the new garden area behind the fence, reusing the top of our old patio table as a base for the new succulent stand.
Surrounded by the blue Plumbago and a few sprigs of the orange Trumpet Creeper vine, it's going to look spectacular.
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