Yesterday I suddenly and completely could not stand my skanky old office chair for one more minute. This is a chair that I’ve had for about ten years and it was a freebie from Rick’s old work place. It has been very serviceable and is pretty comfortable but the fabric was starting to show its age as well as being blue which is not a color I decorate with.
It also had an unfortunate potty training incident a few weeks ago that spot cleaning and baking soda didn’t seem to help.
I had a couple of yards of a white ribbed knit fabric I bought a few years ago when I got a notion to recover my outdoor seat cushions (yeah – that never happened) and I thought the stretchy-ness of the fabric would lend itself to an office chair overhaul.
I was not going for a perfect job here. I just wanted to give it a fresh look. This is another one of those projects where if you look too closely you will see all the rough edges.
I started off by cutting a rectangle slightly larger than the seat. I flipped the chair over and stapled it in place, stretching the fabric to pull it tight. I trimmed the excess fabric close to the staples and flipped the chair back over. Seat cover done. Next was to tackle the seat back. I traced the outline of the seat back and cut two pieces (a rounded off square of sorts) and sewed the two pieces together leaving an opening at the bottom so I could slip it over the back. I then flipped the chair upside down and stitched the opening closed. The entire project took about 30 minutes.
At some point I would like to get a prettier chair but this is perfectly serviceable for the time being.
For the most part I like my office set up. Here is an office tour post I did a year an half ago so you can see the layout of the room. It serves a lot of purposes therefore there is a lot of furniture in the room. I’m feeling the itch to rearrange things so I’ve been looking and pinning pictures of other office/creative spaces to get inspiration. Here are a few that are inspiring me:
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I spend a lot of time in my office so it naturally begins to reflect the true me – not just how I want it to appear (or be decorated) which I think is the best way to decorate anyway. I honestly wouldn’t change too much…maybe a new chair and new desk top.
It’s fun to look at pictures and dream though, isn’t it?
