My First Re-Upholstered Chair

I bought this chair for $15 from someone at a storage unit auction in hopes of it being my first large re-upholstery project.  I have done a few dining chair seats before but that's not too hard, I've never done anything this large before and I was excited to get started!  Of course I let it sit in the basement for almost a year before I even touched it.  My dad kept asking if he could burn it!  He does love to burn things.  I didn't let him because I knew this chair could be great and if I messed up then he could burn it.

The orange, brown, and red stripes were not very attractive but I liked the shape of the chair.  I read all sorts of blog's and how to's on re-upholstering chairs and got to work.  First I ripped off all the nasty old fabric.  After tearing everything off the chair looked like this.

It's a naked chair!  At this point my dad was skeptical if I could ever put the chair back together again.  It is just so bare!  I decided to paint it black and distress it.  For the fabric I decided to use a grain sack for the back and then I found a fabric the looked similar to the grain sack for the rest of the chair.  Now here is the finished product.

I think I did a pretty good job for my first chair ever!  My dad thinks it looks great and he doesn't want to burn it anymore.  Now I have to list it on craigslist and hope someone else likes it as much as I do.  Onto my next chair project!

Garfield Gardens

Garfield Gardens is the daylily field I own and operate in the summer and today I'm going to tell you how it all started!  When my brother was 13 he wanted to get a job and start saving money for college.  My mom was not a fan of the idea because she didn't want to have to drive him to work and pick him up but my dad was all on board.  When my dad was a teenager he worked for his uncle in a daylily field and thought that Ben could do the same.  The daylily field my dad had worked at had been sold and gone out of business after all these years but some of the daylilies were still there.  The hardier varieties were growing in the weeds so my dad and brother dug up 70 different varieties and planted them in a small field in our yard.  Now after all these years of selling daylilies our field has grown into over 200 different varieties!  This is my 4th summer as owner but my 9th summer working in the field.  Crazy how time flies!  Now that you've heard so much about daylilies here are some beautiful field photos.

Getting Started

This is my first ever blog post!  Freaky!!  Ok, where to start?  Last year my Dad and I bought a storage unit full of furniture because I had no furniture for my apartment and it was cheaper to buy a storage unit than new furniture.  Most of the furniture was pretty ugly so I decided to fix some of it up.  My favorite thing I fixed up from this storage unit was this chippy green table.

  It took forever to scrap and sand off the green paint from the top but I did it!  I couldn't manage to get it all off the legs so I painted those.

Now this table is my favorite piece of furniture in my apartment!  I love it!!  As you can see I didn't do any sort of staging or anything for my after pictures.  This is one of my first furniture projects I've ever done and I think it looks great for having hardly any experience.