One post for March! Yay!

I feel bad because I haven’t blogged in forever. But when life gets busy it becomes so easy to put posting off. Plus, I don’t have much of a garden anymore to post about anyway. So today I’m at work and my boss is out, and I have absolutely no homework here for me to do, so I’m going to blog! I’ll have to use pictures off of my phone since I don’t have any here at work.

So, one thing that I’ve been meaning to blog about is an office chair that I reupholstered. I had been looking for a chair for my drawing desk, but couldn’t find any cheap ones. So, I went to my college’s surplus store where they sell old furniture that the college no longer has a use for. They sell stuff for a few dollars, so I got an office chair for about 5 bucks. I cleaned the plastic parts of the chair and then went to Jo-Ann’s and looked at fabric. Finding fabric for the chair was the hard part, because I wanted a print that was large, but not too large for the chair. Plus there were just too many fabric choices! I loved them all. But finally I found a very happy print that I liked, and bought a piece large enough to cover the seat and back cushion.  I also bought some extra padding for the cushions to make them more comfy.

Here's a picture of the chair before...



It was SOOO dirty!



One of the fabrics I saw at JoAnns. But it was a little too "governmental" or "empirical."

I found a pink and green flowery canvas cloth! I tore out all of the old cloth and then stapled the new cloth and the cushioning on.

After the Process. It looks so much better!

 

Since re-upholstering the chair some time ago, I’m very happy with the design and everything that I’ve done, but sadly the chair is incredibly squeaky and I’m not sure if I can fix that- and it’s also kind of uncomfortable. But then so is my other chair that I use at my computer desk and inherited from a roommate. When I moved from NYC I had to leave my most comfortable favorite chair in the world- it was a leather captains chair that I got a great deal on. So, being a student I can’t afford good chairs until I start working again. (boo!)  So I guess in the meantime I’ll just have to deal with the cheap student chairs.

This was a fun project to work on though, and if I found a good chair in the future then I would do it again.