Reupholstered bergère

 

A lot of us have an old furniture piece somewhere that we either don’t like anymore or that doesn’t match with the rest of our décor.

A client of mine had an antique French small Louis XV bergère that didn’t fit their new, more contemporary, home interior, and asked me what to do with it.

The floral damask fabric was totally damaged, so we needed to reupholster the bergère. At this moment we are finishing the interior design of the house and for all of the fabrics we prefered to choose for tones of blues and greys.

The antique bergère with damaged damask fabric.

 

The framework of the bergère is painted in white/gray with a shade of blue.

 

Because I knew that my client had her doubts about choosing to reupholster the bergère with either a classic or a more contemporary fabric, I suggested to use 2 different fabrics.

A floral patterned fabric for the frontside and the seat cushion and a checkered fabric for the backside of the bergère.

In the composition of both fabrics, 30% to 50% linen is used.

ARISTIDE Flax Cedar Sky

 

ARISTIDE Flax Vancouver Sky

 

We finished the upholstery with a traditional trimming.

JAB trimming Engadin

 

The reupholstered bergère, ready to move to our client’s home!

 

 

 

 

I have always loved the small French bergères, they have a feminine look and they fit in several rooms.

I show you a few examples of small bergères placed in different rooms of the house.

 

In the entry hall.Source here

 

In the kitchen.Source here

 

In the living room.Source here

 

In the bedroom.Source here

 

In a dressing room.Source here

 

In a library or study room.Lefèvre Interiors Source here

Source unknown

 

There are many different ways to embellish a French bergère.

You can choose for a more feminine and romantic fabric as the one here of the KATE FORMAN collection.Kate Forman Source here

Or you can opt for a plain fabric in combination with a patterned fabric.Source here

Or a velvet upholstered bergère.Source here

Do you love the French bergères? I do hope I inspired you to make the right choice to upholster yours !

xx

Greet

Favourite Furniture Fridays: Champagne Lifestyle on a Beer Budget

Hello Tiffany Leigh readers! I'm Hannah, hailing from Champagne Lifestyle on a Beer Budget.

I am so excited to be posting for Favourite Furniture Fridays today!  Tiffany's blog has quickly become a must-read for me, and this series is one of my favorites in the blogosphere!

My number one piece of furniture has to be my $30 Craigslist chair.  I bought the chair and re-painted and re-upholstered it with the help of many bottles of wine and a mom-of-the-year.

The left is indeed, the before picture of the chair.  A lovely cane chair with an unclassifiable velvet fabric.

A little high gloss white paint, black greek key fabric, and nailhead trim helped me transform the Craigslist grandma chair into the chair of my dreams!

It is my favorite piece of furniture because it's original, classic, and a lot of love and labor went into it. 

If you're interested in getting the tutorial, you can find it here.

Thanks again Tiffany for having me!

xoxo, 

H

You all know I'm truly envious of anyone who can pull off an upholstery job. One day I might try my hand at it! Go show Hannah some love!

 

In My Closet..

 This weekend I got busy organizing my closet. I don't know how I got so lucky to find a room with a closet this big in Toronto, but I'm so glad that I did! This is really my only storage space, so it's kind of a catch all. All it needs is a crystal chandy and a louis ghost chair and it would be my dream space!

I have three types of shoe storage. Most of my heels and fancier shoes are in the vertical hanging storage because the heels fall through the metal shelves on the shoe rack. I feel like I should have put more glamorous shoes on the shelf for this shot..but hey this is the way I live. And I mean, my dirty steel-toed work shoes are pretty sexy. My taller boots sit on the floor and are kept upright by rolling old magazines and sticking them inside!

^A look at the upper shelves. From left to right you see a peek of cleaning supplies, my sweats, silver basket holding belts, wicker basket with towels, weekend tote, rattan basket with handbags and clutches, and my hats. The rod on this side of the closet holds my outerwear jackets as well as my blazers.

The final side of my closet is definitely the least glam. My laundry hamper, mini fridge, pink drawer unit which holds my midnight snacks, and a mop. While this is my own space, I do share a kitchen with five other girls, so I like to keep some stuff in a fridge up here. This is what I mean by a multi purpose space!

All of my other clothes (tees, tanks, jean, pjs, etc.) are in my dresser located just outside of my closet door:

Just for fun (because I love you guys) I'll show you a BEFORE shot of the closet, when it was still a bit of a mess:

 You can see how desperately I needed that shoe rack.

And there you have it. It's probably the biggest closet I will ever have in my life since I plan on buying a tiny little fixer upper in Toronto one day. Gotta enjoy it while I can ladies!
xox

Favourite Furniture Fridays: The Little Black Door

Happy Friday everyone! Elizabeth from little black door here and I'm psyched that Tiffany asked me to come over today to play Favorite Furniture Friday. I try not to play favorites in my house when it comes to my furniture, but I've failed at that attempt because I most certainly do have a favorite. That would be the settee in my living room.

This sucker is like one of my children. And as much work as I put into it, I feel like I gave birth to this couch. It started out as a sad little thing in the back corner of an antique store. It smelled, had stains from I don't even want to know where, and the cushions were as thin as Victoria Beckham. 

After weeks of work I sanded, painted, stripped, unstapled, reupholstered, stapled and piped that sucker into one hot little number.

I love her so that I sometimes sit on the other side of the room just so I can admire her. She's comfy, beautiful and I'm proud to report still dog hair-free. I hope you love her too!

Thanks Tiffany for letting me brag about my baby! xoxo

Can you believe Elizabeth tackled that reupholstery on her own? The before is barely recognizable as the after, now that takes vision. Simly stunning!!! Now check out her blog!

Living Room Redesign...Almost There

For the past few months, I have been helping my parents redesign their formal living room. My parent's have very traditional tastes, so I kept that in mind when helping them to make selections. My favourite part of the room is the new floors and cushions!

But first! A peek at what the room used to look like. I had to dig back in the family archives for Christmas photos from 3 years ago! Here it is:

 And now the after... (We are still looking for the perfect coffee table and some accessories)

 My parents installed the new hardwood floors all by themselves! They turned out absolutely gorgeous!

The bird's eye view! (We have a loft that overlooks the living room).

My mom sewed the accent cushions. I love the finished product!

It's got a bit of a ways to go, but I'm thrilled with it! Wish I was a better photographer.
What do you think?
xox Tiffany Leigh

Office before and after

A few months ago (in the month of February of this year exactly), a client contacted our company with the question if we would be interested in the redo of their business offices. Although our company is well-known for the more classical interior design, I also love contemporary design. And definitely for business offices!

After discussing with the client about all their needs, my husband and I started to think about the lay-out of the office rooms, the required materials, furniture, lighting,..and finally made a proposal! Our client was enchanted and gave us green light to go on with this project.

The redo had to be finished at the end of July!

I will first show you some “before” pictures of the office rooms. Actually there were 3 existing office rooms of which our client wanted us to create only 2 spaces now.

New lay-out of the office.

Sorry for the quality of the pictures! I am not a professional photographer!

BEFORE PICTURES

Office 1

Office 2

Office 3

Powder room

BROUGHT IN MATERIALS, FURNITURE AND LIGHTING

Wenge wood for the office cabinets and desks.

Epoxy flooring (for more information click here).

Contemporary electric fire.

Wenge colored wooden blinds

Desk lighting armature.

Ceiling light.

Floor lamp.

Desk chair.

Ghost chair.

Phantom chair.

We have chosen for the white phantom chairs but they couldn’t be delivered on time. I hope they will arrive next week! We will place them at the office desks.

Sitting aera chair.

This is the table (not arrived yet) chosen with a white top for the sitting area.

Door handle.

Basin sink for the powder room.

AFTER PICTURES

This is the almost finished project.

Of the earlier office 1 and 2 we created only one office room. I mention it here as Office 1.

Office 1

In front of the former metal structure we placed a white painted wall with a large window.

View through this large window.

Wenge cabinets and desk, made to measure at the working places of our company.

Sitting area with the electric fire.

Notice the industrial look of the epoxy flooring.

Wenge wall tablet under the large window.

The led lighting creates a wonderful effect.

Flowers…the final touch!

At the backside of the wall where is placed the electric fire, we created a kitchen area,…

… and used the wenge wood for the tablets.

Office 2

A repeat of the wenge furniture.

Final touch by my husband.

Again the wooden blinds as window treatment.

Powder room

Hopefully within a few weeks I will be able to show you some professional taken pictures of this project!!

I hope you enjoyed this office redo.

xx

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