The Wing Chair (Part III)

It's been a while since I introduced you to my wing chair project. And I also showed you how to deconstruct the wing chair and then how to reupholster it. Well, I am finally done and wanted to show you the final result. But first, I need to show you the finishing steps and then... the grand reveal.

We last left off here

with everything but the arms and the cushion done.

So let's get to finishing this thing up!

I told you that I would post a tutorial for the cushion, but to be honest, I had no idea what I was doing and had to enlist my grandma. But here and here are fabulous tutorials on how to cover a cushion. (You wouldn't want to follow a tutorial I did on this even if I did make one, trust me.)

So I'll move right along to the arms. As I did in my previous steps, I used the old fabric to determine the piece that I needed for the new piece. The arm finishing pieces were a little different because they had been pressed. I am no master of the iron, but I did come up with a suitable solution: cardboard. I traced the shape of the old fabric onto cardboard and cut out little cardboard pieces. I just used some left over cardboard from a shipping box. Then, I cut out fabric slightly larger than the cardboard and used Scotch tape to adhere the fabric to the cardboard. (fancy, huh?) But it worked perfectly!

Then, I took my shapes and positioned them in place and then stapled as close to the edge of the cardboard as possible (since I would be covering up this area with nailhead).

I ordered some nailhead online in french natural. This stuff is so cool because it actually comes in a strip of nailheads and then every third one has a little hole in it for you to affix a real tack. So in essence, the other ones are just faux tacks. And it's completely bendable. Amazing!

So I just bent it and put the tacks in every third hole. I used the rubber mallet versus the hammer to secure the tacks because I did not want to dent the metal and it look funny.

And then I did the whole thing to the other arm, put the cushion on... and I was finished!

A good makeover is never complete without the before. So I present you, the before:

And the after:

 I'm not sure who likes it more- me or Wally...