I picked up this chair about 5 years ago and used it at my old apartment in the small kitchen area. I always intented to give it a quick makeover but instead it just stayed looking the same and when I moved into my cousin’s new house it ended up in the basement. Last week I walked past it covered in a bunch of tools and crafting supplies in the basement and decided to just take the time and work on it so I would actually use it! Now I’m dying to make myself a desk/crafting space to put this chair!
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-Spray Paint
-Scissors
-Leather
-Rope
–Leather Punch
-Canvas
-Staple Gun
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-Took the chair apart. This one was pretty simple and just needed a standard screwdriver.
-Spray painted the frame. I decided to do this because it had some rust and scratches that needed to be covered up.
-Covered the seat cushion using leftover canvas. Stretched the fabric tightly over the existing cover and secured with a staple gun on the underside of the seat.
-Reattached the seat cushion.
-Cut out a piece of leather that would stretch across the back of the chair and around the bars.
-Lined up leather with the holes from the screws that held the top of the chair in place and used the leather punch to punch holes.
-Attached the leather back to the chair using thin rope. Fed it through the punched holes and the holes in the metal frame and then tied it.
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xo. Caitlin