One year ago, almost to the day, I snagged a beautiful swan chair at a local estate sale -- for only $35! Unfortunately, the seat needed to be recaned. Fast forward to this year and the beginnings of a restoration for this awesome Hollywood Regency Swan Chair.

As explained in my prior estate chair reveal post, my husband agreed to help me figure out a way to "fix" the seat of the chair that needed to be recaned. Due to the exorbitant cost of sending it out to be recaned, he instead went ahead and crafted a new seat altogether -- solving the seat problem and saving a lot of money in the process. 

However, even with a new seat, I'm left with two different restoration dilemmas and I need your help!

As a self-professed chair addict I'm more than thrilled to be sharing -- wait for it -- a thrifted, vintage swan Regency chair I picked up at an estate sale. It's gorgeous, with great bones and a colorful history. And while it was purchased "as is," I still believe it was a steal. Because who doesn't love a piece of gorgeous fixer-upper furniture?