Before & After: Desk Chair

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Recently I’ve been obsessed with the Design*Sponge website. I seriously read it as often as I can, it is such a great website for DIY ideas and Before & After Projects. Once a week the website highlights one or two homes that have incredible design. I like it a lot, mostly because I can relate to the style of the decor and because it links to various projects to beautify your home.

This morning while I was browsing the website, I noticed that Grace had posted several Before & After chair projects. They are all so inspiring, and many of them (the wing-back chairs especially) are above my skill level. Maybe someday I’ll be good at reupholstering complicated furniture, but for now I will stick to the simple stuff. It’s kind of funny that Grace decided to post all of the chair ideas today, because yesterday I did my own little Before & After chair project. I guess chair reupholstering is in the air. Here is my Before and After….

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I like how the after picture turned out more than the before picture (obviously). The reason why I reupholstered this perfectly functional ikea desk chair is because it’s too hard. I’m sitting on the computer (pathetically enough) a large part of the day, and my pregnant behind aches after sitting in it for 15 minutes. So, I just added on some high density foam–left over from Nelly P’s crib mattress–and stapled on a new cover. The fabric was found at the Fabrix and More distribution a couple of months ago. So, this project was very ‘green’, I recycled fabric and high density foam that otherwise would have been thrown away. No more sore behind for this pregnant girl!!

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    1. Jenny Smolnik says:

      I so wish I had your creativity or your fabulous luck at finding inexpensive, gorgeous fabric. I love all the stuff you make!

    2. Neat, that gives me an idea for the other drafting chair that is falling apart down in my wife’s paiting studio that has seen better days. I like the green twist you added by using recycled material, nice. That’s my biggest compliant with most chars is that their padding isn’t good enough.

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