We wanted to introduce to you our #1 rented out piece, Miss Betty White. She stands at 3 feet and 11 inches tall and 6 feet long, has porcelain skin with golden hair that silhouettes her body..Or in furniture terms, she has white fabric with a gold wooden frame (but that way kind of sounds boring!) okay, okay, we will try to stop sounding clever with our words, we will just get to point of this post, her before and after process.
We offered $400 and they accepted. The seller, who was in her late 40s or early 50s said it belonged to her grandma, and had been in the family for a long time, so we knew we needed to do something fabulous with it. We could not agree on a color so we went to our facebook and Instagram and asked for other's opinions. With the feedback we received, we decided on a white colored fabric. This time we called an upholster, one with good reviews, and asked him how much material we would be needing and how much the piece would be to change the fabric (he quoted us $275 for labor).
We went down to Hancock Fabrics and picked out a micro suede material (8 yds @ $7.99/yd), since it was going to be a light color we needed a material that would not stain easily. We also went with a white Gimp (border of fabric) which only cost us about ($4).Before it went off the upholster we were advised to paint the wood part, so we turned to Roslyn's mom, who is an expert in painting wood pieces. She used a gold metallic color by Rust-Oleum ($3.99/can)
and highlighted the piece's accents and crevices with a dark glaze, also by Rust-Oleum, in the color Java Brown.($30/can. very little was used in this process)
Then off to the upholster she went....
Over $700 spent on her total work done and we had our final piece, Betty White!
One final note: Before we rented her out we scotch guarded the fabric and has really helped to minimize stains.
XOXO,
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