Desk Chair Makeovers

Saturday, April 10, 2021

Desk Chair Makeovers

Today I'm sharing my adventures in desk chair makeovers.

Because the pandemic has us spending so much time at home in front of our computers for school and work, I thought a couple of nice desk chairs for my daughter and I were in order.

Check out how easy it is to take a couple of used chairs and make them over into something beautiful:

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First up, my chair!

I found this one for only $5 at a local thrift store and I must disclose that it did not look so horrible until I ruined it myself 😕. You see, my son had really been wanting a cool looking gaming chair that he had seen on YouTube annnnnnd I thought that maybe I could re-create the look with heat applied vinyl....I could not 😄😄😄

The heat from the transfer process melted the already existing vinyl and the whole thing just came apart. But for $5 it was a 'learning experience'.

He did get a nice chair as well, but it's just plain black with a plain black cover on top. Not really worthy of this makeover post...

-Anyway-

Not one to give up or to waste, I thought I could still salvage the chair somehow. I grabbed a can of spray paint and gave the whole thing a once over. Because the arms and legs of the chair would remain visible, I made sure that they were completely covered. The body of the chair I only lightly coated. This was because I didn't want the patches of black showing through the cream colored slip cover.

*I'm going to pretend that I had that figured out beforehand, but nope. Originally I painted only the arms and legs of the chair and when I put on the slip cover it looked terrible, so I took it off, painted the chair body and then put the slip cover back....'learning experience'...😂

You can find a similar chair cover for $14.99 at Walmart

And here is my chair all pretty after going through so many experiments!

My daughter's chair was of higher quality and came in at a higher (same thrift store) price of $25. Still quite the deal and with so much experience from the first chair, I knew right away to paint the whole thing 😉

Because the shape of this chair is a bit different I went with a two-piece slipcover.

You can find it here for $7.80 at Walmart

*Note - The use of spray paint leaves quite a smell afterward. Since we were having good weather I was able to leave my chairs outdoors for a few days until the fresh air took away the odor.

And here is my daughter's chair.

I like the way that the cream on cream color scheme turned out.

But what about those accessories?

The throw pillows I already had, the throw blankets were made:

Wanting a couple of coordinating throws for the chairs, I purchased the plush twin sized blanket pictured above. It was an easy project to cut the blanket in half and run a couple of new seams along the raw edges, leaving me with two throw sized blankets!

Mainstays plush blanket, $10.46 at Walmart