🔨 As I made a new chair from my grandmother's stuff

Old things sometimes surprise us with its strength. The fact is that before trying to do efficiently and reliably, and now - as soon as possible and at a lower cost. That's why alteration of furniture last century gives a great result, because a margin of safety in her very large. And the proof of that - the material from Snjezana Kudryavtseva from Pskov, who Received HouseChief.

Hello to all! Anyone that gets in the inheritance from grandparents, but I got here cottage with old furniture Soviet times. And by the way, is a real treasure, I'm not kidding. By itself, the cottage - it's great, and my whole family loves it. And the old furniture, to be honest, throw hand is not raised. And given my passion for all kinds of experiments - it is not necessary to do.

For example, the old chair - it would seem, it is hopeless, but I do not just restore it, but also took away the apartment and he now stands at the computer desk. But he had a prospect to go straight into the furnace

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1 first break
2 then fix
3 Painting works
4 new seat
5 Finishing touch

first break

To build something new, you must first break the old. In my case, the main problem chair was that plywood stratified seat and partially collapsed. But the framework is in order. Save the rest was impossible, I had to break it.

Fortunately, the plywood was removed very simply, without using any special tools. Only one place I had to pick up the edge of a screwdriver to detach from the base

When there was only a skeleton, I proceeded to its processing. Old paint coatings completely oblezlo, it was necessary to get rid of it.

Stripper I used two types of sandpaper, first hosted a major grain, and then fine honed

Old varnish easily removed by opening the tree

then fix

A chair that apparently repaired more than once. I found at least three types of fasteners: nails, screws, and screws. For the most part they were sitting firmly.

Some had to tweak the connection to be tightened

Traces were active operation everywhere shcherbinki chips and coated on the entire chair legs to the backrest. This is not surprising, according to the most conservative estimates this piece of furniture was 50 years, no less.

To help in the restoration came to me acrylic plaster. It is written that it mimics the color of the wood. it was not so important for me, but I took myself a note — To help in the restoration came to me acrylic plaster. It is written that it mimics the color of the wood. For me it

Lay putty well, I firmly zatrambovyvala it in all the cracks

When the patches have dried, I again walked fine sandpaper over the surface, giving it a perfectly smooth look.

Painting works

Even considering that the plaster was almost the tone of wood, again to cover a chair, I did not plan to paint. Wood dark places so that even the treatment of a skin does not "get" up to bright places. So in any case, it was necessary to paint. I thought about the color: what to choose? After some deliberation settled on black. He was selected for two reasons: its universality, and, most importantly, I still have black paint from the recent repairs.

paint lay down very smoothly on oshkurennuyu surface, but the color depth, I struck her in two layers

Here's what happened. The chair was quite different in the new color. not bad

new seat

The basis of the chair was ready, it's time to make it to the new seat. To do this, it took me a piece plywood.

I put a piece of paper to the seat base and looked around its contours

The pattern laid on the plywood seat and moved on her layout marker

The next stage was perhaps the most difficult. For work, I was just a simple sawAnd it turned out to be a very poor job with plywood. It was much easier to work jigsaw. Be sure, make it to the list of necessary purchases for the home.

On sawing seating took me for two hours and a lot of nerve cells

Then there was the trip to the nearest hardware store. And you know, I walked four stores, and never found the foam for seating! I was already in despair, when he accidentally walked into Fixprice.

Here I found a product that's full of synthetic padding. It was called "cushion for the chair"

More seating I needed upholstery the cloth. In principle, it is possible to use for this, and some old things. What is important for the upholstery of the chair? Durability and impermeability. So you can take an old raincoat or something like that. But I bought a piece of furniture fabrics.

Dense weave and practical material - that's what I liked in this tissue

size pillow is not suited to the seat, it was much more

I cut it with scissors directly with synthetic padding

To sintepon rastropyvalsya not in use, the pillow sewn in place the cut

The materials have been prepared, but here's the problem: I did not have another tool, which now also has a list of necessary purchases: furniture stapler. He looks like a normal office, but it needs to be firmly pressed against the product and drive the staples into the ground, "prishpilivaya" fabric.

But I had a carpenter's glue "Moment", which solved the problem

I paid a glue for plywood and wrapped with a cloth seat, a pillow

The edges of the cloth had to fix an ordinary thread. It turned out not very nice, but this part of the seats nobody sees until peep under the chair

The same carpenter's glue useful to me to fix the new seat based. I struck him around the perimeter

It remains only to make a new seat to the base and a little sit on a chair to press tightly against him

Finishing touch

To give his work a modern and original style, I decided to make an inscription on the back. The options were many, but I remembered a playful prigovorku that my husband and I often use: "Popa raised, the place lost." I translated it using Google translator into English.

The inscription has caused white paint and when the paint has dried, cemented acrylic lacquer

This chair is now standing in our apartment at the computer table

A remaining piece of pillows Fikspraysa I also sewed, made on her case and is now in use on the back of the same chair

That's old chair, which is nearly recovered in the villa stove, I got a second life. All the work took me a couple of days. The creative process has delivered a lot of fun and brought quite a practical result. Do not rush to dispose of old furniture, she has huge potential!

Snezhana thanks for the detailed story! Excellent chair turned, and, after alteration, it looks very modern. So this antibenderovsky experience will be useful to all who chairs the house fell into disrepair.

We invite other skilled workers to share their experiences in the category "not a woman's business"

Snjezana supplement the story can be a little footage of another old chair restoration:

PHOTO: Snezana Kudryavtseva

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