Yesterday I wrote about my chair, and here it is above: It’s getting to look shabby modern, in my own words. I don’t mind that, it looks used and loved.
I washed every piece yesterday and set them to dry, and re-assembeled it all today. The middle core of the cushions is foam, 2-to-3 inches thick, and “about” 28″ w (wide) x 22″ d (deep); then a piece of fluffy, thick webbing stuff, most likely polyester-ish, overlaps an inch or two around the top and two sides of each piece of inner foam. This is stapled on with standard staples, making an edge similar to the picture of how the outer cover is made, the inner cushion resembles the look, only it’s all inside the main part of the cover, and the cover’s edge is all it’s own self.
It’s a nice chair again. It’s fluffy cushy feeling, nice to sit and read, or sew in.
In the Picture you see my new arrangement in the corner of my “dining room” opposite of the corner with holds the armoire full of my scrapbooking supplies. My chair corner has, from left to right:
Re-claimed cabinet (originally is was bought in the early 90’s new as a potato, etc. bin. It had doors with wire netting fronts. At some point I was sick of it and wanted to re-do the doors, took them off and never did anything with them. I then cleaned it up and oiled it with olive oil, and loved the look, and that’s what you see there, but back then I put mugs and coffee and such in it, then later tea as we started using more and more tea and had several varieties of it. Not too long ago I tired of that, and moved every thing out and just had my Sweet Potato vines in mason jars ontop, and then later took them off and put them on a table in the kitchen and used the cabinet for modem and router and phone stuff for a bit, temporarily that lasted longer than I wished. Yesterday I took that stuff out and hung it all on a wall, it’s great there now. I took my cabinet and moved it to the present spot and filled it up for ME!)
Inside I have on the bottom shelf two photo boxes that:
Box 1. have my old photos from my younger years that I collected over time, that need put into albums, scanned, scrapbooked, etc. as well as negatives and odd pics from other people.
Box 2.This one has all the Kodak Photo CD’s that I had made when developing photos in the 2000’s. I don’t use my film camera (Canon Rebel [slr]) any more really, and haven’t always gotten a CD with my developing either. Now I use my Canon Digital Rebel (slr). Next to that on the same shelf is where I put odd sides things that won’t fit into the boxes, as well as things I find that need to go in and await future time to do that.
Middle shelf: On the left I have some books, scrapbooking sorts, and on the right in the back you see my camera lense (Canon EF 73-300mm) which I use sometimes, so keep it handy. My camera a sit in front of it when I don’t have it “out”.
Top shelf: on the left is photo paper for what sits next to it on the right, my Epson Picture Mate Deluxe.
Top of the cabinet I have some of the gift bags I got for my birthday in July, they are very pretty and it’s just something to put there for now, as well you can see my Boyland’s “Black Cherry” The Natural Kind, soda on the left.
I do not have this thing there in the picture above, but it’s there now: My navy blue magazine holder from IKEA is on the right, with the gift bags moved over to the left, both fill the space from left to right completely with no hang overs. In that magazine holder I keep my scrapbooking magazines, of which I have three sorts right now:
In the corner behind my chair you can see some of my other photo boxes peeking out on the right. There are 8 boxes in all back there, spanning from 1992 through to current time. I do have them all organized in photo development envelopes according to when the pics were snapped.
Keeping my hard photos thus makes them very access-able for me (seeing as I’m not so very tall, and “out of sight means out of mind” for me.)
I’m happy with my new corner and hope to make it better by adding a lamp to the top of that cabinet (for mid-night reading’s) to have a nice light just for the chair, not have to have a big overhead light turned on. I have a violet throw on the chair now, which was taken by DH and given to youngest son one night last winter. I took it back today. 🙂 It was for the chair long ago, and is back again.
I want to get a couple of pillows from IKEA for it, maybe a new throw as well.
In the future I can remake the chair with “raw” materials of foam and batting, stables and then also make a new cover easily, it’s just a piece of cotton with an open middle back to slide foamy pieces into the top and bottom, and then pieces to hook onto the chair at bottom and top. So I can use this version now until it’s toasted beyond what I can stand … then re-incarnate it with new “flesh” 😆
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