Throw Back Thursday

A look back at past projects 

-J

Just for fun - New Chairs

Me at Urban Ore

My daughter claimed this one! 

Buy me!

I had fun in my backyard the other day revamping these new chairs I picked up at Urban Ore for under $25. I love to go thrift shopping in search of hidden treasures. It was my first trip to Urban Ore in Berkeley, I heard lots about it so I took advantage of a free Saturday and went salvage shopping. 

Urban Ore is amazing and a little overwhelming. It is a huge warehouse of great household products for very inexpensive cost. As I strolled through looking at everything, I found the array of chair selection. I saw these beauties [my now finished chairs] that I thought would be easy for me to paint and reupholster.   

The inspiration for color and fabric choices; I wanted to use color! My usual go to colors are: white, black, and gold; very safe, and very boring! LOL (at least to me). It was a cold day in Berkeley and I think I had summer on my mind so I picked bright summer colors.  

For the seating I really like the fury cream fabric that you see a lot now in super chic spaces. I wanted more fluff in the seating but that would've require more money and a more expensive fabric store. For the yellow chair I wanted a color that was opposite of the base color. Can't go wrong with blue and yellow.  

This was a "just for fun" project. I'm expanding my creativity beyond interior design. My daughter claimed the green chair so now I'm looking for a home for the yellow chair! Any buyers? =)

-J

Rendering

With everything coming up for me and JGW Decor I thought it would be beneficial for me to practice rendering and actually become good at it! (if not good at least decent). In past design classes we had to render our projects. I didn't feel confident about rendering so most of the time I would turn in half finished projects. I'd have a 3 bedroom house and only shade in the living room or kitchen. I watched YouTube videos on how to render drawings and I found it to be really helpful for me.  

Since I have a few pending projects in the works - I went to Michael's Craft Store and bought a sketch book and colored pencils. I looked for a space on Houzz and came across this photo (at the top) and copied the image. It didn't turn out too bad! I was nervous about shading it in because that's usually where everything goes wrong; lol. But I'm proud of this sketch, I haven't drafted in a long time; more sketches to come in the future!! 

-J