Hold on to your pants!

Well, you know that upholstery journey I was going to be taking you on last week?  It was put on hold.  It started with a migraine.  Then, tumbled into a nasty head cold.  Then, my son began his late night puke fest.  So, needless to say, we have been taking it easy and trying to recoup.  We are hoping no one else gets sick.  With Thanksgiving only days away, it would really stink to not be able to do the ritual overeating.  I mean, I intentially wear pants with some sort of give so I can gorge myself silly.

Anyways, even in our sickness, I found something that required no work to share.  It was just about 12 years ago, when hubby and I married in December.  We moved into a rental house.  I graduated college and my mom bought us a TV.  I just had to have an entertainment center for it.  You see, we were given a lovely couch and love seat with deer and flowers on it.  I know, what more could a girl ask for, but at the time it was nice just to have a couch.  Anyways, we have lugged that beautiful Kmart 12 year old entertainment center to three different homes.  Here is what she looks like now (excuse the mess)

For those of you with a Craig's list addiction, you will understand.  I am always checking out CL.  It is that whole you never know what kind of deal you might find and all.  Any how, I ran across a armoire posted for, hold on to your pants, $25!!!  Can you believe it???!!  I told hubby that for $25 we could try it out and wouldn't be out really any money.  So, we all packed up and pulled the trailer over and picked up this baby:

It makes me feel a lot more grown up now for some reason.  It isn't a beautiful frenchy armoire that I dream of getting one day, but for $25, how could we pass it up?!  I would love to know if you think it is an improvement.  Drop me a comment and let me know.

Also, I intend to start posting about reupholstering my chair but I am currently crippled with indecision over fabric choice.  I think I might have a few other choices.  Maybe I could get you to choose for me?!

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Seating for 2?

I have been dying to post about my latest Craig's list purchase.  I found these two french(?)/Victorian chairs about a month and a half ago. 

So, what do you think?  I got both for $125.  I think that was a good deal?!  As you can tell, one is a rocker.  It actually is pretty comfortable.  Anyways, the poor lady who was selling them must have thought I was nuts. When I called about the chairs, I had to ask her if they had any odor. Of course, she said no. You see, I have had a bad experience with a chair I bought from the auction. It started out okay, then I noticed the musky, old smell. I cleaned and cleaned it and made a slipcover for it. Four months later, I had to strip it down to the frame and reupholster it. That is a road I don't want to go down again for a while.

When I showed up to look at them, I apologized and explained then proceeded to stick my nose all over the chair and give big sniffs.  Thumbs up!  It was a go ahead.  As I loaded the chairs up, I think it was safe to say that the only thing to sit in the chairs was her cat.  A very long haired gray cat! 

I have decided to take you on my journey of recovering them.  I think this will help me make a daily bit of progress.  Before we embark on this journey together, you have got to help me.  I usually like the monochromatic look.  But for some reason, I have purchased this fabric for the chairs:



It is cream and brown zebra print.  Be brutally honest!  Is this too much of a jump for the chairs?  I am uncertain about my choice now that I have bought it.  As long as I don't cut it, I am still able to return it.  Please, please, let me know what you think.