After receiving many inquiries into how to create the flat welt cord to cover the staples next to show wood have prompted this easy tutorial. Besides this rather sticky method, you can also use double sided fusible interfacing cut in 1 1/2″ strips and simply …
Mod Home Ec’s Digital Apprentice Series starts out with an Intro to Sewing & Upholstery. Easy to understand, simple instructions and real life project photos prove this is the real deal. Shelly Miller Leer WANTS you to be creative, or at least give it a …
Homeroom offers classes for adults and children, events and parties, and now the Homeroom Shop. Contact us for information about private and custom workshops, parties, studio rental and Homeroom Shop hours. Where it all begins in Indianapolis. Homeroom is just east of the Monon Trail …
Being the business owner who is always pitching her products makes me feel a little nauseated. Others are so smooth at weaving their sales pitches into clever blog posts so that readers are looking desperately for the Buy Now button. I’ve never been any good …
It helps that I’ve met these two lovely ladies in person, but even if I had not, I think we could have hit it off due to what intuitively feels like our shared beliefs about making, creating, designing, business and family priorities. It’s uncanny how …
Well, I’ve jumped into the visually dangerous world of Skype video interviews. Whether I want to proceed with video interviews, or less visually threatening simple audio podcasts is yet to be determined. Today’s interview with Andrea Mihalik, founder and owner of Wild Chairy, will let …
The most exquisitely interesting things I find are usually discovered on the road to somewhere else. I think that’s a fair statement. As was the case as I was hunting down upholstered banquettes when I spied these pieces of multi textural deliciousness created by artist …
This isn’t a new project but since I found it had over 500 pins on Pinterest, I felt it was worth reusing. If you think creating giant tassels is straightforward, you’re in for a little surprise. It’s still very easy though. I first saw giant …
I’ll tell you right here and now that this post is about my Flipping Furniture online class. You can read all about it to see how people just like you have taken their hobby and turned it into a profit making small business. The reason …
Off and on during the past year or two I’ve been stopped dead in my tracks with images I see on Damien Jaffré’s Instagram feed found at damienjaffreupholsterer. I remember him telling me long ago that he’s a Paris upholsterer who wants to relocate to …
One fun aspect to fiddling around on Instagram during odd hours is that you discover people all over the world who are doing the same things you like to do. Less than a year ago, I discovered Nia Sayers, founder and owner of Summerland Style, …
