Yesterday, I listed reupholstering my desk chair as one of many gadgets on my “to do” listing for the workplace space of my studio. In the event you’ve been studying my posts for some time, you would possibly do not forget that this desk chair was initially a eating chair that seemed like this…
It didn’t have casters on the legs, and the nailhead trim was silver. So I did a bit of makeover on the chair by slicing the legs down, including casters, after which utilizing a bit of Rub ‘N Buff in a gold/brass coloration to vary the colour of the nailhead trim.
What drew me to this chair within the first place is the actually excessive again. I like an enormous desk chair that makes a press release. I don’t like small desk chairs that get misplaced behind the desk. Earlier than shopping for this one, I had searched and looked for a fairly velvet desk chair in a daring coloration, and whereas I discovered loads of them, all of them had a brief again that appeared to barely peek over the desk. So these didn’t match the invoice. I keep in mind discovering one which was good at Ballard Designs, however it might have been about $1500, and I didn’t actually discover a material from their material choice that I cherished anyway. I say that as if I’d ever spend $1500 on a desk chair. 😀 I wouldn’t.
In order that’s why I’m opting to maintain this chair and reupholster it as a substitute of simply buying a brand new chair. It’s the right measurement, and it’s really very comfy. I like the design, the fashion, and the dimensions, however I don’t love the colour anymore. Plus, as I confirmed you yesterday, my cat has performed a little bit of redesigning on it for me.
So I must reupholster it in a cat-proof material, and velvet is at all times my go-to material for that. I checked on Spoonflower (the identical place the place I had my floral mural wallpaper, the floral curtain material, and the colourful sq. wallpaper printed), and so they do supply a efficiency velvet that can be utilized for upholstery. So I began enjoying round with a few concepts.
First, I attempted performing some stripes utilizing the colours from the floral design, which I additionally used on the sq. wallpaper design. Right here’s a (very tough) mock up of what that might appear to be…
I added the stripe on the again and the seat, after which did the remaining in a stable eggplant coloration. I’m unsure about doing the whole chair within the stripe. My first thought is that it is perhaps overwhelming and busy. My second thought is that making an attempt to match these stripes can be a nightmare, and would possibly find yourself wanting very sloppy. However I might do horizontal stripes on the again and seat cushion, after which vertical stripes on the remaining in order that they’re very deliberately completely different, and wouldn’t require matching up the stripes from one part to a different. I didn’t do a mock up of that concept, although, as a result of I’m simply not that good at doing mockups.
The second concept I attempted was utilizing the identical colourful sq. design that I made for the studio toilet wallpaper. I can have that very same design (however in all probability with smaller squares) printed on material. That might look one thing like this…
Once more, I paired it with a darkish eggplant coloration for the edges. And the chair in these footage is sitting in entrance of the outdated, unique wallpaper that had the smaller, darker flowers. In the event you’ll keep in mind, after I determined to go along with the bigger flowers, I additionally lightened the colours on a number of the flowers fairly a bit. However the brand new wallpaper isn’t so drastically completely different in coloration that it might have an effect on what goes on the chair throughout the room.
So these are the 2 choices I’m toying round with proper now. I’d mess around with these stripes a bit of extra and check out some varied edits, like maybe doing the stripe vertically as a substitute of horizontally, or utilizing fewer colours with wider stripes.
However simply primarily based on the 2 choices I’ve performed to this point, I feel the material with the colourful squares is my favourite. My solely concern is that I is perhaps getting a bit of heavy on the squares and rectangles. My flooring is painted squares. The lavatory partitions will probably be lined in colourful squares. The paint swatch cupboard is roofed in colourful rectangles.
After which I purchased an enormous colourful wall calendar to go on the wall subsequent to my desk. I haven’t proven y’all of the wall calendar but, however it’s this one from Kaleidoscope Living. It’s big, and superb, and colourful, and superb…and extra rectangles.
I really feel just like the room is already getting fairly heavy on the colourful squares/rectangles, and that makes me assume I must make the stripes work, even when they’re my second alternative. However we’ll see. I could find yourself throwing warning to the wind and including extra colourful squares.
Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I rework and beautify the 1948 fixer higher that my husband, Matt, and I purchased in 2013. Matt has M.S. and is unable to do bodily work, so I do the vast majority of the work on the home on my own. You can learn more about me here.
