Time stands still when you can’t create things, go to the gym or just really do much of anything. I find myself looking for simple things to do. That’s hard too because I don’t really do simple. One good thing about this down time is I’m finishing up little things on big projects. One of those project is a chair I found right in my neighborhood. It had no seat and no back but the bones of this beauty was there. It sat in storage for a while but then I brought it to my studio and started the creative process. It was so long ago I started this chair I can’t find the before picture. So we are starting with the painted body of the chair.
The base of the chair was wood. It had been neglected for sometime because the wood was so dry. A dead give away is when you wipe it down it hardly looked wet because it soaked up all the water. The coloring of the wood was also very uneven so painting was my best option. I used Valspar Project Spray paint in medium gray with a flat finish. I sat the chair a side to dry. Boy did I ever let it dry, I guess it was about oh 7 or 8 months. Yep that chair sat in my studio for that long. I moved it all around my studio when it was in the way. For some reason I didn’t have the motivation to redo it. This week I needed a small project that I could do but not lift or bend over. In comes the chair to the rescue.
I needed a seat and a back we used some scrap plywood. Greg helped out with that and the chair started to come back to life. I found this fabric at Hobby Lobby on the clearance table and it was the perfect color combination. I wanted the chair to be neutral to fit into any room. Once Greg handed off the seat and back to me I finished it off with stuffing and nail heads. It proved to be a project that needed to be finished. It turned out to be pretty special.
Sometimes we walk all around things in life. Holding our head up trying not to see what needs to be finished. It’s easy to over look things and move them out-of-the-way. This chair took no time to finish but I put it on the back burner for some reason. Like my closet when I avoid going in there that’s when I know it needs to be cleaned. This chair has taught me when I avoid something it needs my attention the most. I’m so glad I finished this chair and recycled it back into use. Going to the city dump would have been sad. Making things over to be reused is one Blue Happy way to spend time.
