The Breakfast Room Chairs . . . .

Our Breakfast Room

or 

Breakfast porch

tacked onto the back of the house

It's where we eat most of our meals

It's not original to the house

We added it in 2007

And a wonderful addition it has been

But this isn't about the breakfast room

It's about the breakfast room chairs!

Duncan Phyfe from the 30s or 40s I expect

They came with our dining room set

Mahogany

As most of these sets were

When I bought our "good" dining room chairs

I relegated these to the basement.

They were too good to get rid of.

And then we built the breakfast room

And I had chairs in the basement!

Husband Jim insisted on painting them black.

I'm not sure why, but we did

(and I hate to paint wood)

We covered the chairs in a black background toile 

Which seemed to fit

And we lived happily until 2015

For the black was starting to wear and I wanted my

"wood chairs" back!

So we stripped them

black painted chair on the left, refinished wood chair on the right

The black toile did not look as good and I found these wonderful

needlepoint chair seats on ebay

(and I so love needlepoint)

The chair seats

Summer of 2015

And they were pretty needlepoint

But there was just something

"not quite right"

with the needlepoint

The chair seats

August 2017

I found this toile that I thought went better with the wooden chairs

Better than the needlepoint

And then this January, I was housecleaning

Well, actually doing by January

"cabinets, closets and drawers" cleaning

I found fabric

Fabric I had bought for the breakfast room  chairs

about three years  ago

at a wonderful upholstery/drapery fabric shop in Springfield

I think the reason why I did not change out the chair seats then

was because they were black

And the fabric did not look good with the black chairs

But they're no longer black

And so one January afternoon,

I took the chairs apart again

And put the new fabric on the chairs!

I like them

A gold on gold textured damask

Which looks good with the wooden chairs

And the rest of the breakfast room furnishings.

So far my tally is:

Original chair seats -- 8 years

Needlepoint chair seats - 2 years

Second Toile chair seats - 5 months

I don't feel like I'm a changer just to change

But when something is "not right", I'll continue to work on it

until it is!

And hopefully, the seats are "just right"!

Part of my busy January!