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Chair Improvements

When you are just a little too short for your chair, you may just need to add more foam.

I’m short. Most of the time this isn’t a big problem, but sometimes it can be a little annoying. Case in point, my lazy chair is too long (or too short?) for me. The foot rest at the bottom only has padding on the top. However, my heels just about protrude over the end when I’m sitting in it. This means that I can feel the edge of the wood under the padding. At some point it got too annoying and I removed the foot rest to see if improvements are a possibility.

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I decided that it might be possible to undo some of the staples and add some extra padding to the front and reduce the annoyance. When I got my staple gun back this weekend, I decided to actually try it. Got a screwdriver and pliers to take the staples out. Then added a few layers of insulation foam to the front and stapled the fabric back. Screwed the foot rest back into the chair and it does seem to be a small improvement. At some point I may decide to find some actual furniture foam and try it again. However, it’s fine for now.

This chair is still one of the best purchases I’ve made. So comfortable!

Chair, Now in Blue

So, years ago, I managed to liberate an office chair from Utrecht University (story is here) which has gone through two more moves and now lives happily in my sewing room. It had accumulated another patch but was again springing a leak. So I decided to take the plunge and figure out how to recover the seat. Adding another patch would not have made it any better I think.

So I got to work, taking out all the visible screws. I couldn’t get to a few so I googled my chair number and actually found a video that shows how to recover it. Thank you, Stof en Steen! So I mostly followed the instructions and managed to recover the seat of my chair in about 2 hours or so? The hardest part was getting the recovered seat back on the chair.

Now, the seat back is still perfectly fine, and I am lazy. It would also have more pattern pieces and harder patterns so I figured, I’ll take the multicolour chair. Red and blue go together, right? RIGHT?! I have found that it is more comfortable now since the hole is no longer there and my feet actually stay on the chair when I pull my legs up. I declare this a success (for now, at least).

Mending

The floor of the building I used to work on my thesis in got moved to a new floor in another building. This meant that all the items on said floor had to be tagged and labeled and decided to either be kept or thrown out. I had been sitting on the same chair for 5 weeks and really liked it. It however had a hole in the front:

Hole

And it was already quite old. So I asked the ladies of the secretariat whether they were planning on taking it to the new floor, and if not, I would like to take it home. They said I could take it as it was broken already, so I took it home. This involved some rolling around and storing it at a friend and eventually, a week later, I managed to move my chair from Utrecht, by bus, train and car to my home. It still had the hole, so I decided to fix that with a patch. It’s not pretty but it does the job.

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