Yesterday, I listed reupholstering my desk chair as one of many objects on my “to do” listing for the workplace space of my studio. For those who’ve been studying my posts for some time, you may keep in mind 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 somewhat makeover on the chair by reducing the legs down, including casters, after which utilizing somewhat Rub ‘N Buff in a gold/brass coloration to alter 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 cloth from their cloth choice that I beloved 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 an alternative of simply buying a brand new chair. It’s the right measurement, and it’s truly very snug. I like the design, the model, and the dimensions, however I don’t love the colour anymore. Plus, as I confirmed you yesterday, my cat has executed a little bit of redesigning on it for me.
So I have to reupholster it in a cat-proof cloth, and velvet is all the time my go-to cloth for that. I checked on Spoonflower (the identical place the place I had my floral mural wallpaper, the floral curtain cloth, and the colourful sq. wallpaper printed), they usually do provide a efficiency velvet that can be utilized for upholstery. So I began taking part in 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 would appear like…
I added the stripe on the again and the seat, after which did the remainder in a strong eggplant coloration. I’m unsure about doing your entire chair within the stripe. My first thought is that it is likely to be overwhelming and busy. My second thought is that attempting to match these stripes can be a nightmare, and may find yourself trying very sloppy. However I may do horizontal stripes on the again and seat cushion, after which vertical stripes on the remainder in order that they’re very deliberately totally 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 thought I attempted was utilizing the identical colourful sq. design that I made for the studio rest room wallpaper. I can have that very same design (however most likely with smaller squares) printed on cloth. That may look one thing like this…
Once more, I paired it with a darkish eggplant coloration for the perimeters. And the chair in these footage is sitting in entrance of the previous, unique wallpaper that had the smaller, darker flowers. For those who’ll keep in mind, once 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 totally 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 somewhat extra and check out some numerous edits, like maybe doing the stripe vertically as an alternative of horizontally, or utilizing fewer colours with wider stripes.
However simply primarily based on the 2 choices I’ve executed up to now, I believe the material with the colourful squares is my favourite. My solely concern is that I is likely to be getting somewhat heavy on the squares and rectangles. My ground is painted squares. The lavatory partitions will probably be coated 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 Residing. It’s enormous, and wonderful, and colourful, and wonderful…and extra rectangles.
I really feel just like the room is already getting fairly heavy on the colourful squares/rectangles, and that makes me suppose I have to make the stripes work, even when they’re my second selection. However we’ll see. I’ll 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 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 may study extra about me right here.
