It’s outdoor season here! We can open our windows! We can grill on the patio! We can enjoy it for about two whole weeks before our faces start to melt off if we even look outside! Hopefully you are just beginning a long and adventurous season of outdoor entertaining. Maybe you have just recently dusted off your patio furniture and dragged it out of storage and realized that ew! It could use some updating.
Here’s one idea from Kelly, who reupholstered her patio chairs with some groovy green-striped outdoor fabric. Does it count as “reupholstering” if she technically didn’t sew one stitch and used safety pins instead? It does in my book! She found her no-sew tutorial right HERE.
Beth was also over her tired and taupe-y loungers, so she came up with a quick fix using a few different paint colors and painter’s tape. This is the kind of project you could knock out in an hour! So what I’m saying is … this is my kind of project.
Kim from Just a Southern Girl covered her rattan loveseat with a big, happy floral (doing all the upholstery, zippers and piping herself, knuckle-bump!) It’s part of a set, and she plans to finish the other pieces in a solid, but ANYTHING would be better than the former fabric, which appears to be the official fabric of Disease.
Great job ladies!
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11 Comments
Amie
March 27, 2012 at 3:52 AMThese are so clever!
Dharma
March 27, 2012 at 12:55 AMThe official fabric of “Disease”? Mn, I just dribbled Pepsi all over my keybpard. You crack me up. Nice makeover on the setee.
That spraypainted lounger is pretty smart! Safety pins are sewing in my house. Fer reals…
Beth at southernfriedliving.blogspot.com
March 27, 2012 at 3:17 AMThe fabric of disease just made me snort laugh! Seriously girl, you are funny!
Kelly D.
March 27, 2012 at 12:35 PMYou Rock Lindsey! Thanks for sharing these!
Kim
March 27, 2012 at 3:23 PMThanks for featuring my rattan loveseat! Your description of the old fabric was dead on! LOL I talked my husband into removing the old fabric because I didn’t want to touch it :/
I’m skeered of safety pins! I’ve used them occasionally to hold the three layers together when I’m getting ready to quilt, and I end up feeling like a giant pin cushion! OUCH!!! So my hat’s off to the ladies who can work this kind of magic with ’em!
And who doesn’t love the magic of paint?! Quick, easy and fantastic!
Kim
March 27, 2012 at 3:24 PMThanks for featuring my rattan loveseat! Your description of the old fabric was dead on! LOL I talked my husband into removing the old fabric because I didn’t want to touch it :/
I’m skeered of safety pins! I’ve used them occasionally to hold the three layers together when I’m getting ready to quilt, and I end up feeling like a giant pin cushion! OUCH!!! So my hat’s off to the ladies who can work this kind of magic with ’em!
And who doesn’t love the magic of paint?! Quick, easy and fantastic!
Jen
March 27, 2012 at 6:41 PMYep, laughed right out loud at the “fabric of disease”…..and I definitely had an “ew” moment when I took out my patio furniture this year. Love the rattan seat!
susan
March 27, 2012 at 8:57 PMDownright in -flippin -credible! Love ’em all! Spray paint takes E Z Wahoo -zey! From me. I don’t count but am filing in what’s left of gray matter 🙂 Snooz
Deborah Valentine
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Deborah Valentine
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Comeca Jones
April 12, 2012 at 5:23 PMI love the fabric on the last redo its too cute!