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We have been downsizing our furniture for awhile, getting rid of my beloved gigantic lounger and generally reworking the sitting options in the house. I guess it was rude to have guests sit on the floor when my old chair took up about 30 sqft of the room.
Solution, find smaller stuff. There are lots of nice smaller furniture and what not, but they insist on costing “money”. Which makes me sad, inside. enter my neighbors yard sale. Where they had this beauty of a chair for ONE DOLLAR. So take that, Washington Inside Furniture Fat Cats!.
Torn fabric (corinithia leather) and odor aside, it was great. So I hefted it home. Kate bent her considerable mental powers to deciding how to make it not suck. She ended up using curtains (cheaper, stronger(?)) for the material. We stripped it down and disassembled the chair.
It had some super handy rails that held the arms and what not together, a pry bar and rubber mallet took it down nicely and made putting back together really easy.
Kate then used my Mom’s old sewing machine, restuffed, restictched and reassembled the whole thing one day when I was at work. I am really impressed with her work.
Kate enjoying the chair.
Bonus: A quick video of Kate working away on the sewing machine, shot with new iPhone (my beloved 1G finally died). It really got me right in the ticker to see Kate working away on my Mom’s machine.
