Seeing the Flaws

Reader, this home improvement stuff is killing me. Tonight I tried to redo a chair. It was JUST A CHAIR. Well, after touching it up with some Olde English, I put new material on the set. I love the material I picked out. I was completely gaga over it in the store. The colors are perfect for my dining room, it's fabulous. But guess what....I hate it on the chair. All of the sudden, adding it to the chair just sucked the life right out of that perfect material. I'm pretty sure that at least a little is the condition of the chair itself. The Olde English did it's duty on many of the scratches but there are many more that it can't touch. Then I did not realize what horrible condition the pads would be in, so the only thing I could think of to use that I had laying around the house was cotton. Well, now it just looks like a lumpy mess. GRRR! So tomorrow I will stop and get the appropriate foam and start again. Now I just need to take care of those pesky scratches.....