Office Chair Makeover

Use, reuse, recycle, repurpose! Ha, those are beautiful words that we should use more.

A sad office chair is given a new life, keeping it away from the landfill.

You've probably owned one of those regular "leather" office chairs we all know aren't made from leather. 

We have two of those chairs. They've been in the office for more than seven years, and they still function very well. One of them is still in overall really good condition, the other not so much. Look at that!

It's a bit embarrassing posting its picture, but hey, that's how it looked.

What do you do with a chair like that? 

Yeah, my husband told me, "Bring it to the trash," but I just couldn't! I brought it to the basement to first try to re-upholster the seat, as it was the only thing damaged.

I flipped it upside-down. At first, I thought I could separate the seat's base by unscrewing 5 regular screws (yellow arrows), but nope, the ones with the red arrows had to be loosened too. An Allen wrench and a screw were the tools needed.

The ugly cover was quickly removed.

The new cover ... I found the burlap coffee sack on my last flea market trip. 

The old cover served as a guide. Before stapling the cover in place, padding was added to the seat.

Once the seat was fixed, the leather back didn't go that well with the burlap; it needed a change too ;)  

I didn't see screws to take the front off the back plastic cover. I tried to pull it apart with no luck :(

I was now thinking of doing a slip for this part, but when my husband came home I asked him to see how these two pieces were put together, he reply oh, that's for sure by pressure, and he was right! 

I didn't have enough force to pull them apart, though.  💪🏽   

They're connected on these four points:

Once apart, it got re-upholstered too. 

There were no more designs for the burlap sack, so I painted two lines and a number that had meaning to me.

This is how it looks now.

This makeover was very easy, and it makes me uneasy to think that I also contemplated throwing it away.

 How many times do we throw away stuff that requires simple makeovers? 

Crazy!

My red lines didn't match the color perfectly, but who cares :)

I like all its imperfections, even the stains the coffee sack had.  ;)

This is how it looks in the "new" room:

More Projects going to this room:
Guest room reveal.
How the room looked before, right HERE.
The direction I want to give this room HERE.
Painted Designs on the Floor, right HERE.
Diy Daybed from the spring box
Old Lamps transformed
Old Window Memo Board
Diy Round Mirror
Tripod Side Table
Table Makeover
Blackout curtains