Announcing, Announcing, Announcing our Secret Sale is in June. To be exact it is June 7 and 8. Many of you have begged us to be open more, so we are extending our sale an extra day. Yes, in the past, we have only had a one day event. But, many have you have told us that you would like our secret sale to be more than a one day event—so here goes. In the upcoming weeks, we’ll tell you what percentage you can take off your total sale. You’re gonna love it.
And just for fun, I just wanted to show you what April and I have been up to. As most of you know, we like to try new things. So rather than staying in our comfort zone in the upholstery part of the business we decided to venture out and try something a bit more challenging. We’ve done many pieces that you would call “light upholstery”. We love painting the furniture and then adding that great piece of fabric to the cushions or even making our own cushions.
But this one—well, what shall I say–was a great lesson in why having a chair reupholstered costs a lot of money. We had a ball doing it, it just wasn’t the piece of cake we thought it might be. Especially when there were three different checks in this fabric’s pattern that we had to match. And, just for the record, I am very pleased with the way it turned out. However, it does have some imperfections that we would not have allowed had we been doing it for a client. One of the most important things we learned as we did the chair is—-that we learned more from taking it apart than doing anything else.
You remember my mauve chair? Well, most of you won’t because we had a slip floral slipcover over it. Well, it was a nice chair. The brand was “Flexsteel” and it had great bones and showed no wear. That’s what you get when you buy a quality piece of furniture. (Or if you never sit on it.) I couldn’t send it to another home or some orphanage for furniture. This piece of furniture had been in such a happy home, I couldn’t bear to put her in foster care.
And then to take it’s back off and find toys that my 20 year old daughter had played with when she was a child, I don’t know that I could bear to part with any part of this chair, including the mauve fabric. But I sucked it up, and April and I removed the rest of the fabric. And, I can honestly say, I don’t miss the mauve fabric at all.
This was the scary part for me. With the back and cushion now gone, I felt like I would never see my child (I mean chair) again. But I knew it had to be done–for it’s own good, of course. April was the brave one here, as I couldn’t bear to perform this surgery on my on child. I mean chair.
We bravely journeyed on in our adventure and to my surprise it started coming together. I am sure the chair must have felt like I would have if I had just had a facelift or Botox. New life had been breathed into this chair and all of a sudden, I know she (the chair) must have felt young again.
As I finished up some of the last details, I felt good about this project and dreamed about the next pieces we were going to do.
And there she is. What a joy to have her finished and in her new spot. This one’s not for sale, but rest assured you’ll find some new furniture we’ve reupholstered coming in this Fall. Plus, we’ll have new furniture from different vendors coming in the Fall..
Please mark your calendars for our “Secret Sale” in June. Friday, June 7, 9 to 5, and Saturday, June 8, 9 to 3.
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