Before & After: A Retro Chair Gets a Cheerful Redo

Jennifer Hunter
Jennifer Hunter
Jennifer spends her days writing and thinking about decor, food and fashion in NYC. Not too shabby.
published Feb 24, 2014
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Yellow armchair with a textured fabric, labeled "before" in orange text.
(Image credit: Lesley Goren)

You may think that at $25, Lesley overpaid for this sagging, stained chair (she called it, “well-worn”), but she seemed to have an inkling that those good bones deserved a second chance.

(Image credit: Lesley Goren)

Turns out Lesley was right — that cheerful and patterned fabric really highlights the chair’s great shape. What a vision.

Lesley says:

I waited a year for the right fabric, I finally found a lot of old Anthropologie fabric for sale on my local Craigslist (at a ridiculously good price, about $100 for 7 yards). A friend of a neighbor did an AMAZING job with the reupholstering and here I am with this beauty!

Thank you Lesley!