Two Concepts For Reupholstering My Studio Desk Chair

It didn’t have casters on the legs, and the nailhead trim was silver. So I did a little bit makeover on the chair by chopping the legs down, including casters, after which utilizing a little bit Rub ‘N Buff in a gold/brass shade 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 a giant desk chair that makes an announcement. 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 reasonably velvet desk chair in a daring shade, 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 excellent at Ballard Designs, however it will have been about $1500, and I didn’t actually discover a cloth from their cloth 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 proper dimension, and it’s really very snug. I really like the design, the type, and the scale, however I don’t love the colour anymore. Plus, as I confirmed you yesterday, my cat has finished a little bit of redesigning on it for me.

So I must 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 might seem like…

I added the stripe on the again and the seat, after which did the remaining in a stable eggplant shade. I’m unsure about doing all the chair within the stripe. My first thought is that it is likely to be 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 may 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 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 will look one thing like this…

Once more, I paired it with a darkish eggplant shade for the edges. And the chair in these photos 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 among the flowers fairly a bit. However the brand new wallpaper isn’t so drastically completely different in shade that it will 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 would mess around with these stripes a little bit extra and check out some numerous 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 finished 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 a little bit heavy on the squares and rectangles. My flooring is painted squares. The lavatory partitions might 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 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 suppose I must make the stripes work, even when they’re my second alternative. However we’ll see. I’ll find yourself throwing warning to the wind and including extra colourful squares.

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