Seeing the following photo, the first thing you do - Write the question: "Who should be to bring chairs to such a state?"
I found these three "wonderful" creatures on the Internet and paid 600 rubles for them. Most people would have passed by such furniture, thinking that it was unnecessary junk and place to him in the garbage.
We often say that in man appearance is not the main thing. In the furniture is also more important what inside. Well, why silk and velvet, if the furniture does not perform its direct function?
Let's clean the chairs from all this vet.
For 600 rubles, I acquired three ready-made strong metal frame with a strong plywood base for a middle, paralymporal gaskets in the back and on a seater, a soft plastic plate to strengthen the back (on one of the chairs, this part was completely destroyed, but without it the back did not become less convenient. ), and from the bottom of each of the chairs there are plates for which Velcroes are laid.
Previously, the chairs were covered with leather, now I will sew covers from the fabric for them.
Fabric I have this. Black and white graphic pattern of incomprehensible colors. Why exactly such a fabric? Yes, because there was! I found this fabric in the apartment of my future husband, as soon as I moved to him. I could not imagine for a long time where it was used. It is dense enough and dark to go on curtains or bed linen. So the cost of the fabric for this project is 0 rubles.
Further make the measurements of the chair and the exemplary sketch. In practice, I had to adjust a little sketch straight on the fabric.
I decided to make covers whole. Maybe this is not entirely true, but I decided so. Separate will only legs. The cover will be put on the back and fasten the "ears" under the velcro seat. By the way, Velcro was also at home in sufficient quantities, so its cost will also point out 0 rubles.
We apply our sketch on the fabric and cut out. Do not forget to make a lines!
Since I am far from a sewing event and, except for decorative pillowcase, never sewed anything, then I do everything in my own. If you have a better version of mine, then he also takes place.
Photos of patterns and sewing I will not show, here like everyone else. I will show just how the closed fabric on the legs.
For the legs, I sewed a "tube with ears." For these "ears" by a construction stapler, straight through the paralymp attached a fabric to plywood. For skeptics, I will say that the staples of the construction stapler are very strong and persistent. This can confirm my cat, which I made a house and artificial fur fucked for a bracket. It was a year, and the fur did not move from the place.
The rear legs did not work so much, so "ears" I simply glued to the frame for the glue "moment-crystal". Glue cost 95 rubles.
A surprise for me was the fact that on the tailoring of covers for the legs I spent three times more than three times than on tailoring directly the covers themselves.
And in the end, after having a striking and smoothing, I received three wonderful and strong stools, which are very well suited to the interior of the apartment. To get these chairs, I needed 695 rubles and 8 hours of situations, broken for 3 days. I also had a cloth and I sewed a cover on a sofa pillow.
Morality. There are always people who are very untidy to belong to things, but in the opposition they have those who appreciate all the surrounding. After all, on the manufacture of new metal frame, para terms, plywood and fabrics would take new natural resources. Maybe I did not save the forest, or because of me it became less emissions into the atmosphere, but for myself I was well done. I believe if every "bad owner" will give a "good owner" things to alteration and refinement, then our world will become a little cleaner and better.
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