A couple of weeks ago, when in Hyde Park, Bob and I found a chair. It was dark, it was cold, the poor old chair was left alone in the side walk, for the trash men to take. The chair was is a bad condition, the upholstery was torn, the paint was coming out, the screws loose and the overall looked nasty. This is how we found it.
The old lady looked quite crooked, and needed badly a remake. The wood was still in good shape though, and the Asian style of the chair made us fall in love with it.
So I showered it!
I washed all the dirt and took the cushion part off. It had spiderwebs and lots of dust.
We left it to dry for a couple of days, the wood went back to its shape. I painted it white and varnished it. I sewed a patchwork of fabric samples I had left from some Interior Design work, and hand sewed the whole thing. I needed to find some softy new cushion, when I realized I had bought a pound of fabrics at Purl Soho, it had some white felt in there and used it as the cushion!
I had some tiny nails left over and hammered them to the wood, and fitting the fabric. The neighbor didn't like it. I hear her banging her ceiling with a broom. So I screwed the rest, less noisy. And this is the end result!
Some landscape fabric patchwork!
Don't just throw a good chair away, try giving it a second life, a new use and a good make over.
You and the chair will appreciate it.
Enjoy!
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