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the Furniture FACELift Fiasco, a cautionary tale in two parts: PART II | 1 2 3
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Step six: Re-unification.
Many, many hours after I’d began this little furniture facelift, I was finally at the stage where I had my two cushions decked out in new spiffy red clothes, and my wooden chair frame sporting a lovely golden-red sheen. The final step: putting it all back together again.

On went the bottom cushion – because I’d covered over the old screw holes in the process of re- upholstering, though, 
I had to first look for the holes by poking around the edges of the cushion with a pin. Having located the holes, and properly positioned the cushion in alignment with the screw holes on the wooden frame, I screwed the bottom cushion into place. The top cushion slid back into the metal runners on the wooden frame and voilà – the transformation was now complete.

Miraculously enough, despite the fact that I’m quite certain I made every mistake possible in the re-finishing and re-upholstering process, the chair still looks about a thousand times better than it did before. It’s not perfect, not by a long shot, but it’s a very big improvement indeed. Whereas before, the chair was such an eyesore that my boyfriend and I had a tendency to keep as much stuff stacked on top of it as possible – an attempt to hide its utter hideousness to the maximum extent – this new, pretty, red incarnation of the chair actually looks welcoming enough that, as my boyfriend commented, "Wow, I actually want to sit on it now."  Not me, though -- I'm too happy looking at my handiwork. 

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the furniture facelift fiasco, part I (re-finishing),
handy household tools
 

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