Per week or so in the past, my mother and I reupholstered my desk chair in a lovely darkish crimson velvet material. The chair began off trying like this after I purchased it and added the casters to show it from a eating chair to a rolling desk chair…
After we reupholstered it, it regarded like this. The material was so beautiful, however these legs simply weren’t working for me.
After going to all that hassle to reupholster the chair, and after ending up with such a lovely outcome, I simply couldn’t stand these legs. I didn’t actually like them within the first place, however they had been tolerable with the black material. With the darkish crimson velvet, they appeared so misplaced. So I searched on-line for a substitute wooden swivel base for a desk chair.
Nicely, these issues are very laborious to search out, and the couple of sources I did discover had been EXPENSIVE! One supply bought the components individually, and if I added all the things up, it could have come to a number of hundred {dollars}. After all, you should purchase the plastic ones low cost on Amazon, however I had my coronary heart set on a darkish wooden for my darkish crimson velvet chair.
So I began keeping track of Fb Market for a desk chair with a wooden swivel base with casters. After a number of days with no luck, I virtually settled for one which was type of mid-century (straight strains) in fashion. It wasn’t what I wished, however at the very least it was wooden. However then…JACKPOT! A girl in a neighboring city posted a number of desk chairs with wooden bases, and about three of them regarded precisely like what I used to be searching for.
My mother and I had deliberate to go yesterday afternoon to take a look at them, however then Matt ended up having a horrible day, and I couldn’t go away him alone. So my mother requested a pal to go together with her, they usually headed to that neighboring city to choose up a chair with a swivel base. My mother stated it was a really attention-grabbing place. The girl promoting them has principally crammed her again yard and her three-car storage with stuff. Stuff piled upon stuff, stuffed with extra stuff, and buried beneath much more stuff. On the telephone, the lady described it as “a hoarder’s place” the place she has to dig and climb for stuff. I assumed she was most likely exaggerating, however in line with my mother, the lady is evidently very self-aware and exact in her description.
It was fairly the journey, however she got here away with this magnificence for $65.
The chair was in nice situation, however lined in a couple of layers of mud. The bottom swivels, can alter up and down, and in addition tilts.
The bottom was hooked up to the chair with simply 4 massive screws.
I discovered this attention-grabbing little metallic stamp on the chair displaying that it’s by The Marble & Shattuck Chair Firm in Cleveland.
I googled that out of curiosity, and one thing tells me that I bought this chair at fairly a steal. I don’t know something about antiques in any respect, however I feel if this chair had been cleaned up and polished, it might really be bought for an entire lot greater than the $65 that I paid for it.
I received’t be throwing any a part of this chair away. However for now, I solely wanted the bottom. I eliminated these 4 massive screws holding it to the chair seat, after which began cleansing.
The metallic on the bottom can also be stamped with the corporate identify and site.
It regarded very nice after I bought all of it cleaned up! I feel it might use a great oiling or waxing. The wooden was beautiful when it was damp, however it had a hazy look when it dried. However I didn’t have any good oil or wax readily available that I might use on it, so I left it like this for now.
I don’t know what any of those markings imply, however I took footage of them in case a few of you antiques specialists might know.
That is what was stamped on the underside of the seat.
Anyway, I wanted to determine the way to connect this to my chair. As you possibly can see, this base is sort of a bit taller than the unique legs that had been on the chair.
So I wanted this base to be recessed within the body of the chair seat as a lot as potential. I flipped the chair onto its again in order that the seat body was uncovered, after which I minimize and hooked up some scrap lumber, minimize to about 1 inch sq. on my desk noticed. I positioned these items as far to the highest of the body as potential, attaching them with wooden glue and 16-gauge nails.
Right here’s what it regarded like with all 4 of them hooked up.
Subsequent, I used brown craft paper to make a template that I might use to chop out plywood. I simply folded and taped it with packing tape till it match. My candy Cooper was the proper supervisor.
After which utilizing that template, I traced the sample onto a scrap piece of plywood, minimize it out with my jigsaw, after which nailed it to these items I had beforehand hooked up to the body.
I needed to enable for these metallic items that protrude previous the highest of the bottom…
So after taking numerous measurements and marking the place the bottom would connect, the place the screwholes would go, and the place these two metallic items would land, I used a 1 3/8-inch spade bit to drill out holes for these protruding metallic items.
Then I drilled 4 pilot holes and hooked up the bottom with the 4 unique screws.
After which I turned the chair proper facet up for the second of fact. I used to be so excited to see the way it regarded!!!
It’s all the things I had hoped for!! Listed below are a couple of totally different views with out commentary.
Isn’t that PERFECT?! I simply love the way it turned out! So right here’s another view of the chair earlier than…
And right here it’s now with its new material and new base.
Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I rework and enhance 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.
