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Art, Design, Home Furnishings

Beautiful Art Walls

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Sometimes it’s difficult to figure out how to hang art. Here is a great resource Artfully Walls. This company makes it so much easier! You can browse through pre-curated gallery walls based on theme, room or even designer picks.  You can see everything in scale, buy all the items (framed!) or just some, edit the layout and even download a pdf of how to hang it (including recommended spacing).

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You can also arrange your own wall with their Workspace Wall Designer feature which is so much fun to play with! If you really want to make sure the print or prints you want will look right in your space you can download their app  and a picture of your blank wall and arrange the pieces virtually!

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Blue velvet, Chairs, DIY, Fabrics, Furniture, Green Design, Los Angeles, Re-Purposed Objects, Recycled Furniture, Reupholstery, Reuse, Seattle

Beautiful Reupholstery Project

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In a recent post I gushed about my obsession with blue velvet and it just wasn’t going away so I decided to do something about it. Enter an old worn out but very comfortable chair that has been the favorite lounging spot for no less than 3 dogs along with numerous humanoids. Not one to let it go to waste, I decided to reupholster it in none other than a vintage blue velvet. Seattle has many wonderful places to shop but is very lackluster when it comes to fabric stores. Somebody please open a fabric warehouse, but I digress. This minor hitch gave me the perfect reason to visit MOOD in LA and lucky me I got there 15 minutes before they closed knowing exactly what I was looking for. Not realizing how huge it was I could have spent an entire day perusing the place if it weren’t for my single-mined journey to find the perfect blue velvet; albeit an affordable one.

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These images are before photos. A couple of things I discovered about the reupholstery business is; as a profession they are in decline but the flip side to that is the ones who are still in it have a long backlog of work to do and it’s not something you can “speed up”. My chair is at least 8-10 out before I can post after photos unless I get lucky and find someone who can do it sooner than later. I am so excited to see the end result.

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