Slipcovers by Shelley

Vintage Quilt Couch

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My client loves yardsales, and picked up this couch about 3 yrs ago. She had always intended to slipcover it. It just took her awhile to find the perfect fabric. While shopping at an estate sale, she eyed a vintage quilt that some one else was looking at. She waited patiently to pounce on it as soon as they set it back down. 
It was what she had been looking for. MAGIC–when you know it’s it and there’s no second guessing.
Here was her inspiration photo. Almost identical shaped couch with dark legs and a darling pleat ruffle along the bottom edge.

 Couch—BEFORE—it had seen better days….worn and dirty, but AWESOME lines and comfortable.

Couch—AFTER–we just used the vintage quilt on the inside back and a cream canvas everywhere else. I was able to get 4 pillows out of the quilt as well. I had to work around bleach spots and make sure the pattern was centered. They turned out great though!

She had the most amazing house full of yardsale finds. She goes to yardsales every Saturday—jealous!

I did 2.75″ pleat ruffle with 2″ between pleats with 1.5″ kickback. The canvas was pretty thick, so I couldn’t self line the pleat ruffle. I did a .75″ blind hem instead.

 Close up of quilt. The quilt gave it a great texture and character to a plain cream slipcover. She said, “It turned out better than what I was expecting!” YAY!!! Bringing things back to life and making them beautiful makes me so HAPPY…like really HAPPY!

 The lighting wasn’t the best today inside (cloudy and rainy), so I switched to my 50mm lens (close up lens that lets in more light) and was able to get some decent pics. Her house was too beautiful to not get good pics. I love her two new blue chairs with cane backs that she got for $10!

SIDE NOTE—opening the office project is well under way!

Here is the BEFORE….

 Here is the wall opened up! LOVE IT! My dad came and looked in the attic and looked at our blueprints and determined that wall wasn’t load bearing—so we took it out!

SO much bigger and open and the kids can sit on the computer in the office instead of 10 kids standing around my bar.

 I paid my 13 yr old son to remove all the carpet from the stairs. Our plans are to do hard wood stairs with 6″ craftsman newell posts. I ordered new stair treads and risers from Stair-treads.com

This is my inspiration pic from Remodelaholic blog

Here’s my upcycled kitchen chandelier. I decided my cream one didn’t go anymore. I found the silver one at ReStore in Park City. I removed the glass shades and had Heber grind off the swirly parts down the center stem. I then put in clear light bulbs—LOVE IT! More industrial.

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Larsen Master Bedroom

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One of my passions is decorating!!! Camille (one of my best friends and running partner) loves it just as much as me. When I say decorating– I mean “Thrift Store” Decorating, scrappy, repurpose, use what you have, make it work, and make it beautiful on a budget!!
We talked our friend Brooke into letting us do her Master Bedroom. Camille started a pin board on pinterest and had Brooke pin the things she loved. After browsing her pinboard we chose the color scheme of NAVY and CORAL.
This was her inpiration pic from Censational Girl blog.
BEFORE—her husbands (Mike) only request was to keep the waterbed! I took a look at it and figured we could make it work. I could make it look like a platform bed, and more modern. I figured we could turn the headboard around to update it and lose all the cubbies, mirror and sconces.
BEFORE—too short of curtains, and not so cute valances—sorry Brooke. I also wanted to eliminate the home gym in the corner—it was time for a “Big Girl” room.
AFTER!!!
I also slipcovered the lamp shades in a blue diamond fabric. The duvet is from Overstock.com–King size was $80–beats buying the fabric and sewing it myself! A king size Duvet requires a minimum of 6 yds per side….12 yds total.

We bought Lenda Curtains and rods from IKEA–and Heber came and hung them for us. Those chairs were $16 for the pair and the upholstry was great. We didn’t have to do any work on them. I like the eclectic look–“ladies chair” and “MAN chair”. My sister gave me the rug, and I decided it would make Brooke’s room more than it “made” my guest room—so I decided to donate it to the cause.

My sister sold Brooke two of these dressers for $30 each…. Our art work is a vintage card table, we got for $2!

$6 chair! $1 magazine basket! Free rug!

Notice the light fixtures—Heber was a great sport and came and hung them for us! They were a little controversial and I may be the only person who was in LOVE with them. What do you think? I think the add some glam to the room!

We love all our little trinkets that ranged in price from $.50- $3.99

Look how well the spray painted file cabinet turned out! I don’t like “bed in a bag”, I like things to look collected and not decorated. Everything doesn’t have to be matchy- matchy. It gives more visual interest if things aren’t the same.

See–Brass, silver, glass, and dark wood all on the same end table—

We weren’t sure how the sides of the headboard would look when it was all done—but I actually love it.

Coral fabric on pillow was from www.fabric.com for about $7/yd

PROCESS—Hit the local Thrift Store without Brooke—Spent $65 on 2 chairs, 4 lamps, card table, magazine basket, and some trinket accessories… Camille and I were on a HIGH—-All the while Brookes husband is texting us joking….saying we won’t be reimbursed for junk! We told him it was all FABULOUS JUNK!!!

We love mixing the rustic, with modern, and mixing brass with silver.

We hit a second thrift store and spent another $4 on a grey IKAT dress (revamped into pillows), and some other accessories.

We gave Mike homework—he had to paint the room grey for us. Then we took over from there! We sanded down the bed and flipped the headboard around. Camille was great with that sander! We then stained the bed Espresso.

Bonus–the back of the headboard was raw wood and took the stain BEAUTIFULLY! It made me happy!

We needed a second end table–our first one was given to us by my sister when I helped her move. I saw one out in the rain at my clients house, and asked if she was getting rid of it. She graciously let me have it and I picked up a can of white spray paint on my way home!

Brooke’s light fixtures were builder grade, and not very exciting. She trusted me and let me pick up a pair of these brass one’s from the local Restore Habitat for Humanity for $10 each! She wasn’t so sure about them—but they worked perfectly!

Total we spent $550 and that included down comforter, sheets, duvet, paint, light fixtures, two dressers, two end tables, curtains, curtain rods, spray paint, accessories, 2 chairs, 3 pillows, 4 lamps, and rug….One mans junk is another mans treasure!

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Nik’s Bedding

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Nikki is my youngest sister. There are 6 of us kids. Two older brothers and then came the four girls! We weren’t always the best of friends—but now we are TIGHT! I talk with my sisters about every other day. After my parents divorced when I was 18, us girls became best friends.
My mom moved to Utah from with my two younger sisters (age 13 and 15) and my dad stayed in California. At this point I was already attending BYU in Utah and my older sister ended up coming to Utah as well. I would sleep over at the house and we’d stay up and have giggle fits and all sleep in the same room. We would cut up magazines and decoupage suit cases, hike up the canyon, and Angie would dress us up and take pics of us.
Here’s a pic of us in order from back in the day. I am the second from the left. (Charice, Shelley, Angie, Nikki)
Here’s a current pic from a few years ago on one of our sister trips….Yes somehow we are in the same order as the above photo. I am second from the left. Our brothers are pretty awesome too~
Anyhow….a few weeks ago, Nik wanted to update her bedding. She found a pic on pinterest of a crazy beautiful headboard. She wanted to surprise her husband that was out of town. She called my dad, who is the best project helper out there and I found a link with some instructions on Addicted 2 Decorating blog for the same headboard. And this is what they put together out of fence slats….
It turned out AMAZING! For the pillows, I had found some vintage velvet at the thrift store and bought it on a whim ($10 for 6 yds)! We ended up using it for her two shams and utilized the selvage detail for the ruffle (looks like ribbon).

Close up of Selvage detail.

Nik came down and stayed the night at my house with all her kids. We got the kids in bed, and then went to work till 1am.

We wanted to lighten up the bedding with some baby blue–I went through my stash and pieced some stuff together (she debated on navy blue and baby blue). The small print on the outside edge is from a sheet.

My dad—He is crazy productive and loves a project—hmmm I wonder where I get it from? This pic is when he helped us put larger windows in the cabin a few years ago. He just moved to Utah last year.

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