Looks great as is

Persoally, i'd do the back. Love your cat.

hmmmm, the cat has tags or the chair? Do what you want with the chair. yes, if it is that valuable and special you are committing a sin. but if you don't care about ruining it, then why should you care about the sin. If we are talking about the cat, just enjoy him as he is.

I would leave it like that, unless you absolutely have to have fabric. Then go ahead, and not worry what the chair was originally like. Hope this helps.

Personally I think it's the cane back that finishes that chair off and I would not want to permanently alter it.

There is nothing you can do with furniture that is a sin.....other than to steal it, or throw it at someone and end up killing them : ) Change it and have fun.

It’s your chair have at er.

Do what will make you happy, but I have to say the texture of the cane looks really good.

While I'm not in love with the cane, the cane in and of itself isn't really the root of the problem. This is a picture of both the living room chairs (and my other cat... they really love that chair). I'm worried that if I keep the cane, the two chairs won't have enough in common to actually "go" together.

I know that it is okay to have two different accent chairs so long as they share enough similar characteristics. My two chairs already have quite a few dissimilarities (different wood, different shape, different scale) and I have this nagging feeling that if I upholster the back of the Jens Risom chair, the two will work better together.

Any thoughts about that are appreciated.

Although I think you were on the right track with the geometric pattern on the Jens Risom chair I am feeling that it does not have enough presence to compete with the batik paisley. Your image is pretty yellowed but I'm thinking something like this fabric would give it more attention without competition.

Also a larger more solid table between the chairs. The smaller table would look great on the hearth.

I always forget that lines count as geometrics. Thank you. As to the table, it is missing one of the saucer sections, which would make it look a little bigger. I'll have the missing piece back before too long. But, you're right, a bigger table would look better. Space is at a premium on that side of the room though. I still need to be able to access the sliding door. Ill play around with the dimensions and see what I can accommodate.

Thanks

So, I moved the smaller table to the hearth, and I got a bigger table to sit between the two chairs. I also kept the cane because I found a fabric that I thought looked good with the cane back of the Jens Risom chair (piictured). However, I liked the fabric with the cane so much that I went ahead and did it without really thinking too hard about the other, paisley, chair.

Is there anything I can do to make the two chairs blend better?

Thanks!

Great fabric choice. They complement each other without sacrificing personality. Color and straight angular shape makes them cohesive.

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