I’m super proud that this trash to treasure refashion lasted for over four years of daily use!
Unfortunately the cane back finally decided to give up, fortunately I came up with a marvelous mending idea using items I already had on hand:
Discover how to reupholster a cane chair + recover a tufted seat too – you’ll never guess what I used!
After over 4 years my poor trash to treasure desk throne definitely needed some work!
I removed the seat, gave the wood a light sand and refreshed it with a few coats of bright berry pink.
As the cane back was still in somewhat usable condition I decided to leave it in place for extra support.
I grabbed a couple of old towels from my rag stash, created a template out of scrap paper for the correct size/shape, cut the towels and securely stapled them in place over the cane on the front of the chair.
As this is my desk chair and I use it every day I was a bit concerned about the fabric fraying on the back support so I used the template for my towels + a few centimetres for seam allowance and created a no-fray cover by simply making a pillowcase in the correct shape.
Then stapled the cover over top of the fancy towel upholstery.
I then grabbed my trusty glue gun + some cotton rope I had in my stash and covered up the staples.
Once the front was complete I repeated the whole process on the back and my chair was half done, whew!
The seat was still in fairly good condition but as the tufts were quite uncomfortable I attempted to remove them. Unfortunately they were impossible take off without completely destroying the seat so I put on my refashioning thinking cap and searched my stash.
I’ve saved more than few puffy shoulder pads over the years so I went ahead and used a few of them to fill in all of the crevices in the tufted seat.
To create a smooth, comfy seat I simply grabbed a couple more rag towels + a piece of sweater scrap, layered it all together and stapled it in place.
Then recovered it all with my pretty birdie fabric.
I am in love with my stellar office throne ♥
Items I already had in my stash + 5 days of work + a lot of imagination = an absolutely fabulous result!
From trash to treasure to even better treasure!
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