Voodoo Molly Vintage: Progress Photos

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Cool-As-A-Cucumber - Funky Green Chair

If I'm really motivated I can do a project in one day, start to finish. It means getting up early (blurk) and for-going some household chores (yay), but mostly I can crack the whip when I want to.

This funky retro diner is an iconic Jon Jansen chair, and it was started and finished yesterday. This includes cleaning, sanding, staining, varnishing and upholstery. Whahoo!

I remembered to take a few progress photos this time around. Normally I don't as I forget in my excitement to start lol.

This first one is during the sanding process. I used an electric Black & Decker palm sander for the flat sides and sanded the legs and curves by hand. Remember to wear a dust mask every time you sand, as well as ear muffs when using electric sanders. Safety first peeps!

This next photo is when adding stain. The colour is a warm brown and is simply applied using a soft, lint-free cloth. Disposable gloves are essential! While I'm waiting for the stain to dry I started working on the upholstery. My stain takes about 4 hours.

And lastly I give it a coat of varnish. If you click on the photo to enlarge it you'll see the word VARNISH written on my brush. I use this brush only for varnish, carefully washing and drying it each time and storing in a bag when not in use. Doing that limits any lint, dirt or paint getting into the finish.

I didn't take any progress photos of the upholstery darn it......next time I promise! But heres a few closeups to make up for it.

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Funky looking sea-chest-shipping-crate-seat-ottoman!

The title says it all: Funky looking sea-chest-shipping-crate-seat-ottoman! LOL

How do you turn boring into brilliant? You strip it bare and go totally rustic.

This ottoman was in very good condition but lack any pizzaz. After I started to strip it I saw the lovely rough-sawn timber and knew straight away I was onto a winner.

The foam was glued on so the job of removing it from the wood was terrible. But I had a vision so it had to be done. My daughter had the great idea of staining the wood...and that was a very good thing because it lifted out all the grain lines and knots. She was also responsible for getting me some coffee sacks a couple of months back. :)

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Work In Progress

BEFORE

I have been working on this couch for a while now and its starting to take shape finally!
Also look at this post here for the matching chair.

Work-In-Progress

I have this lovely mid-century mahogany arm chair. It needed a good polish up and some new sponges.

BEFORE

A while ago I whipped up some replacement cushions for a similar arm chair for a home-stage. The owner wanted to keep the original upholstery for their new house, so we just made some new sponges temporarily. After the house sold she gave me back the cushions to use on another project some time.

Sooooo..... I might dig them out of storage in the weekend to see if they fit! It wasn't the best sewing job in the world, but it looked really good. Keep your fingers crossed for me.

In the meantime, I have stripped off all the cushions (they were not original to this chair anyway), washed the whole thing and gave it a re-polish. Much better!!

DURING

Work In Progress

I have upholstered a few retro dining chairs before, but only in fabric. I have since brought a walking foot machine (a lovely spanking new Mercury) so thought I'd give some vinyl a go this time.

Here are a few progress photos I took during the first chair. When I do the next chair I'll take a few more.

1966 retro dining suite, includes a 6 seater formica table and four chairs

The first photo shows what the suite originally looked like. The seats were very torn in places, but it was structurally in great condition, as is the table. I wanted to get some light/funky vinyl to cover them, but considering it was my first proper vinyl attempt I brought some vinyl on special (in case I stuff it up) which happened to be leather-look brown. Its nice, but not my preference. The thing with vinyl, if you make a mistake its most impossible to unpick and do it again. Unpicking without tearing its hard enough... but you also leave needle holes.

We brought this incredibly heavy coffee table new about 10 years go from D'Vine Furniture in Manukau City. I'm not sure why we brought it to be honest - it was always way too big for our little lounge.

Work-In-Progress

1960s Sofa Bed & Armchair

I brought these two pieces separately. The couch was from Glenbrook and the chair was from Mt Roskill. I plan to upholster them as a matching lounge set. I wish oh wish I had a second matching chair, but hey when you're refurbishing vintage furniture you take what you get!

BEFORE
1960s Night-and-Day AirRest Sofa Bed

The couch had a small area of wood damage to the base. This was removed and a brand new piece of identical wood was cut & shaped to fit. It was an excellent repair job by Handy Hubby. He also stripped the fabric off for me (always appreciated). It is currently sitting on my patio waiting to be upholstered, but I need to wait until I sell two more items to make some room. I have already upholstered one of these Sofa-Bed couches before so I have a fair idea of how to tackle this one more successfully.

Oak trunk seat

My husband found this old oak set of drawers on the side of the road. It had handcut dove-tail joints so it had some age to it, my guess it was late edwardian.

The top right hand drawer was missing, and it had a few structural issues on the top half. But it had no borer and was otherwise in great condition! (I'm always the optimist).

Before I tell you how we CHOPPED the top half off, let me remind you this was DUMPED ON THE SIDE OF THE ROAD FOR THE RUBBISH COLLECTION. I save it!

Anyhoo, once we chopped the top half off we started to get really excited as we could really see the potential. After a glue, screw and clamp it was just a matter of painting and replacing the handles. Some French toile type fabric was the only fabric I could think of to finish this off. Lovely!