Do you have a special chair?
A favorite chair to call your own on the cold winter evenings.
A cozy chair where you can make yourself comfortable
doing whatever. Reading a great novel or a newly delivered
magazine, the daily paper, knitting, embroidering, sketching,
coloring, watching a movie or TV show, enjoying a snack,
an after dinner drink, or a nightcap as the flames in the fireplace
fade and the logs crumble into glowing ashes.
My armchair has a history as I've had it for many years.
It's a rather expensive, once always a 'Made in America' brand. Sadly it's
hard to find much furniture made here these days. It was just an odd chair
I found new in a local furniture store, and on sale, back when almost all
American furniture was manufactured right here in North Carolina.
Originally upholstered in a marvelous hard wearing muted textured floral,
it never actually showed a speck of wear. Later, it was covered for some
years in white heavy cotton duck slip covers during my 'shabby chic' decor
days. A few years back, warming up this north facing room became a
project. Pulling off, laundering, and pulling back on bulky white sIip covers
became too much like hard work, so I bought a new sofa and had my
chair re-upholstered in this stunning blue-black-cream leopard print.
The pine armoire I painted years before, in Annie Sloane's Paris Grey
chalk paint, and carpeting was removed and replaced with warm greige
wide-plank hard flooring.
Restricted to home for most of the past two years, my chair has been
sat upon almost daily. I've loved it and cared for it as it has for me.
Fortunately these past several months with my back/leg problems
this chair has held me without causing pain. . . . . . . I never expected
to love a chair so much!
Small child's version of a great armchair at SuzAnna's Antiques ~ photo taken some
years ago when I had a booth there.
How about you share a picture of your own favorite chair on
your blog. . . . . . .and tell about its history.
We need cozy stories on these chilly winter days.
Hugs from my chair. . . . . . . .and me.
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