So I think it’s time for some audience participation on the blog! I really love vintage peacock chairs like these:
Images: http://www.californiahomedesign.com, http://www.kozykingdom.com, http://www.storiesbystella.com
Don’t they look fantastic? Unfortunately, they are also quite expensive. Beautiful things often are! They are also very, very large and I don’t have anywhere to fit one. But I happened across a child size vintage peacock chair on EBay! The perfect solution. Here is the chair that I found:
I loved it so much I just bought it. It only occurred to me after I had it that this chair is not really suitable for two little boys. I am all for not stereotyping my boys and I often dress them in pink, Will has a baby girl doll (inventively named “Baby”), etc etc. But this is a very pretty chair. And I don’t want the boys to kill it. Will is a cannonball and Alex is a climber. I did manage to protect it from Will for a year but Alex has been the deciding factor for having to move this chair on to a new home. He climbs. ANYTHING and EVERYTHING. Including this chair. Which is made of wicker/rattan and is very, very light. It tips over in a good wind, let alone with a one year old on it. There have been one too many head bumps, so it has to go.
This is where the audience participation comes in! I am going to paint this chair and wanted to offer up two ideas:
– Firstly, do you have a little girl whose room would look gorgeous with a chair like this? I offer this beautiful image from Down That Little Lane as inspiration:

Inspiration shot: http://www.downthatlittlelane.com.au
This chair retails for $399 at DTLL. If anyone would like to have a similar chair, I’d love to sell mine for a bargain price of $90. I will paint it in any colour you like! You could go with bright pink as above, or turquoise, yellow, mint green, clean white – the options are endless 🙂 If anyone would like to add this chair to their child’s room, please email me at adornation@outlook.com . Obviously, you will need to live in Sydney to take up this offer, so that I can deliver the chair to you! Feel free to share this post with anyone you think might be interested in buying the chair – the more the merrier. First in, gets the chair!
– Secondly, in case no one does want the chair for themselves, please leave me a comment with what colour you would like to see it painted in! If I don’t get any takers in the next week or so for buying the chair, I will tally up the votes (so please, please, please leave a comment with your vote!) and that will determine the colour. Then I will EBay it and we will see how we go in selling our joint effort!
If I didn’t have two little boys as well, I would definitely have bought the chair off you ’cause I LOVE them, too! Personally, I like them in classic white (I had white cane furniture in my room as a kid, so maybe I’m looking through nostalgic eyes), but it could also be a great accent piece in a really bright colour. Good luck with the sale.
If I do sell it on EBay Lisa, I think you are right – white is the wisest choice and would go with almost any room. But my heart wants to see it in a pretty colour. To really make it a totally girly, gorgeous piece! I wish I could sew as I would make a coordinating cushion for it. Can’t sew for crap though….
How about one of the Pantone Spring colours? They are rather nice, even if it isn’t the right season for us.
ooohhhh – they are very pretty! Good call, Kirst!
Those are great colors! I agree that white is probably the most versatile, but I’m partial to Violet Tulip and Cayenne…
I think I will try to do the Cayenne colour! I like it a lot but am not sure I will find it in spray paint.
I love the Cayenne too – it’s very popular teamed with navy blue at the moment, and a touch of gold. (Know how you love gold…)
I have to get to Bunnings and I am going to see if I can find a spray paint in the Cayenne colour. Or close to it. It would look gorgeous with navy and gold! Also with a mint green I think. Or my fave – black and white!
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