Café Design

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Dear friends, Happy October! I hope you’re having a sweet and productive start to the new season! If you’re looking for some design inspiration or would love a calming and educational way to spend a few hours on a chilly, rainy afternoon, then I’ve got just the thing for you. I’ve been very busy behind the scenes with both upholstery and design projects, and I look forward to to sharing them with you at some point, but for now I wanted to talk to you about a recent Create Academy course I’ve just finished taking, a course I think many of you will enjoy! 

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Happy Labor Day weekend, dear friends! I hope you’re having a blast with friends and loved ones in your community! We’re having a low-key weekend so far, recovering from a bumpy start to the school year and hiding from the rain, but we’ll be out and about in no time, gardening or going on nature walks and picking up ice-cream from a local farm shoppe.

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Happy mid-August, dear friends! I hope you’ve had a lovely summer so far! Mine has been a good one, busy but fun, filled with equal parts work and leisure, which is just the way I like my summers to be. I got to visit and spend quality time with my mom, worked on some interesting projects with dream clients, practiced my upholstery skills, and spent considerable time near the sea, which always brings me peace and clarity and joy.

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Hello, hello dear friends! I hope you’ve had an awesome 4th of July weekend! What’s blooming in your garden right now? After the colorful riot of lupines and peonies, there’s a bit of a respite in mine. The lupines are seeding, not a pretty sight, but a necessary one, and my daisies and echinacea are about to unfurl. The Japanese beetles feasting on my roses are nothing new, but there’s something special in my flower beds that’s stealing the show that I want to talk to you about. Hollyhocks.

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If you’ve ever been tempted to take on an upholstery project but were intimidated by the enormity of the job, or are looking to get started with upholstery in general but don’t know where to begin, dining chairs could be a quick and easy job, with a high ROI. Or so I thought. 

In one of my previous posts I shared a set of antique dining chairs I found on Facebook Marketplace, and talked about my plans for a quick makeover. Today I’m here to share the outcome, and to eat my words – it wasn’t quick, far from it 🙂 The chairs were simple enough to reupholster, but the whole process took much longer than anticipated, and needed some repairs and skills I did not possess and had to figure out along the way.