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RE: Our Homes (revived chat about decorating) - 1/29/2008 11:50:05 PM
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joeshappywife
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It's fun that this thread just got revived. I spent most of the day yesterday recovering my kitchen chairs. I was able to get 3 out of 4 done. I couldn't get the 4th one finished because I was having to pull the old covers off outside because they were such a mess. Well, it started to rain, so I had to stop. It was still raining today, but hopefully I can finish tomorrow.
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RE: Our Homes (revived chat about decorating) - 1/29/2008 11:51:57 PM
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We recovered our dining room chairs before Christmas! It was fun (but loud)...I cut the fabric and Joel stapled!
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RE: Our Homes (revived chat about decorating) - 1/30/2008 12:26:58 AM
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Mrs.Wifey
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Jess, how fun to have a house! We painted in our apartment and it makes it feel so much more "homey".
For decorator fabric... Watch at Joann's, they often have 40-50% off their Home Decor fabrics, and if you sign up for their sale flyers they sometimes have 40% off coupons.
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We have 2 accent walls painted, one in our living room(on the wall with the fireplace), and one in the dining room. I am planning on haning a mirror over the fireplace to help open up the room some more, but I am at a total loss for ideas in the dining room. I'll post pictures later on...
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RE: Our Homes (revived chat about decorating) - 1/30/2008 12:54:48 AM
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paulsbride
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How much is canvas per yard? I could dye fabric easily.
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RE: Our Homes (revived chat about decorating) - 1/30/2008 7:50:45 AM
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Georgia-Peach
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I just found our bedding set after looking and looking I am so excited. THIS is our new bedding set. I am not sure still what color we will do the walls and bathroom, but I am still so excited to get this part of the house done. We are wanting to eventually redo the kitchen, but its not top priority because it will be the most expensive to do right now. I have been looking at accent pieces though and when I see something if budget permits I buy it. Right now we have nothing down our hallway so I am in the process of looking for wall decor for that. Its not a normals size (as far as width) hallway, but I don't know if it would be to much having stuff on both sides or not. Its not extremely long though.
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RE: Our Homes (revived chat about decorating) - 1/30/2008 9:10:23 AM
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lexie
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I can't wait until we have a house and can really decorate.
Right now we have a beautiful dining room set (though the chairs need new fabric). There is a big dark wood cabinet, my grandparents brought it from Holland with them when they came here - great story behind it. Right now it's sitting in my dad's basement because we don't have room for it.
All of our walls are off white, I don't paint when I rent.
Our living room has a nice "island" theme (but not tacky). We have a statue from Cuba, a beautiful bright painting from the Dominican Republic, plus a chess board and pieces from Cuba as our decorating pieces. Our wedding photos on the beach are also hanging.
That's about all the decorating I've done so far.
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RE: Our Homes (revived chat about decorating) - 1/30/2008 11:17:32 AM
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MamaMilty
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ummm....you are looking at upholstery fabric dear...you don't have to have that for dining room chairs...that's for redoing a sofa (and even then, that's overpriced). I would suggest you tart with the color you want....then go look at places like Wal-Mart, etc...smaller places...it's not as expensive (because it's not as high quality, but you don't need that for what you want to do)
I don't need upholstery fabric?? REALLY???!!!??? I didn't know that!  What kind of fabric do I need?
I edited that post to add pictures of the style of chairs/table. The dining room itself may lend itself to ideas - it has a fireplace in it, but kind of a rustic one. I'm not a "country" style person, so I need to make it look modern.
I really don't like the plastic over the chairs look - I'd rather get something that could 'hide' the smears, and then replace in a few years than have plastic 
You may want to reconsider the whole plastic idea...I was tired of grodie looking seats and I found beautiful fabric by Nautica on clearance at Joannes and I wanted to keep it nice, so I covered in plastic. At first I wast a little horrified at the shininess, but the first time I wiped off spaghetti sauce I was sold  Well, when we moved, I changed our colors, so I had to recover the seats and I decided to leave off the plastic and guess what....not even 6 months and they are RUINED  I am sick about it. The fabric is beautiful and absolutely not cleanable...never again until my kids are much, much older!!
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RE: Our Homes (revived chat about decorating) - 1/30/2008 11:34:31 AM
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I wish we could do more decorating to our house. Next on our agenda is to paint the living room and get new coffee and end tables (instead of the TV tables that have been there for 3 years). It might be a while before we get to that point though. All of our extra $$ for a while will be going to pay for the new air conditioner we just had put in.
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RE: Our Homes (revived chat about decorating) - 1/30/2008 11:57:32 AM
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MamaMilty
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HERE [/link]is a picture of our table/chairs - you can kind of see the style of the chairs, and I am open for ideas on fabric. This picture is from our old apartment... but I think the colors will be similar.
Do you like a bold print like THIS?
I really like your table & chairs...they are black, right? If you wanted to use a wamer color in the seats you could do something like THIS
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RE: Our Homes (revived chat about decorating) - 1/30/2008 12:20:19 PM
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joeshappywife
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I don't need upholstery fabric?? REALLY???!!!???
I used a canvas material that had a print. I got it at Wal-Mart for less than $4 a yard. I thought about using plastic, but decided against it. I may regret it, but since I was able to recover 4 chairs for less than $10, I figure, if I need to do it again in a couple of years, no biggie.
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Most of our stuff is still in boxes. I didn't see the point in taking things out just to have to pack them up again so soon. I am going to be sooooo excited when I can take everything out of their boxes again! 
Two years later they are NASTY looking!! I tried washing a couple of them and it just got worse!! 
