Grain Sack Side Chair

This post is entered in Miss Mustard Seed's Copy Me Challenge.




  These grain sack covered chairs are everywhere.  Every decorating magazine and blog I come across has used the grain sacks in different and creative ways. Using them as upholstery material to cover a chair is one of my favorites.

        

Since I didn't have access to any authentic old grain sacks, I had to try to copy one.  

First, I saw this pretty needlepointed chair in a resale

shop for $45 - it has beautiful carving and lines.

I'm sure someone spent many hours doing
this painstaking work, but it was old and
very dirty.  It had seen its day. 

The details in the wood are beautiful.

But, it's time for a change . . .

                                                                      

Before . . .

and after!

With a little white paint, a stencil, and some natural linen to recover the seat and back, the chair has been revamped to look a little more up to date.  

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(Someday, when I come upon a REAL grain sack, I'll redo the chair.
But for now, it's close enough to the real thing for me!)