Every week or so in the past, my mother and I reupholstered my desk chair in a ravishing darkish purple velvet material. The chair began off trying like this after I purchased it and added the casters to show it from a eating chair to a rolling desk chair…
After we reupholstered it, it regarded like this. The material was so attractive, however these legs simply weren’t working for me.
After going to all that hassle to reupholster the chair, and after ending up with such a ravishing outcome, I simply couldn’t stand these legs. I didn’t actually like them within the first place, however they have been tolerable with the black material. With the darkish purple velvet, they appeared so misplaced. So I searched on-line for a alternative wooden swivel base for a desk chair.
Nicely, these issues are very arduous to search out, and the couple of sources I did discover have been EXPENSIVE! One supply bought the elements individually, and if I added all the things up, it might have come to a number of hundred {dollars}. In fact, you should buy the plastic ones low-cost on Amazon, however I had my coronary heart set on a darkish wooden for my darkish purple velvet chair.
So I began keeping track of Fb Market for a desk chair with a wooden swivel base with casters. After a number of days with no luck, I virtually settled for one which was sort of mid-century (straight traces) in model. It wasn’t what I wished, however no less than it was wooden. However then…JACKPOT! A lady in a neighboring city posted a number of desk chairs with wooden bases, and about three of them regarded precisely like what I used to be in search of.
My mother and I had deliberate to go yesterday afternoon to take a look at them, however then Matt ended up having a horrible day, and I couldn’t depart him alone. So my mother requested a good friend to go together with her, they usually headed to that neighboring city to choose up a chair with a swivel base. My mother mentioned it was a really fascinating place. The lady promoting them has mainly crammed her again yard and her three-car storage with stuff. Stuff piled upon stuff, stuffed with extra stuff, and buried below much more stuff. On the telephone, the lady described it as “a hoarder’s place” the place she has to dig and climb for stuff. I believed she was most likely exaggerating, however in response to my mother, the lady is evidently very self-aware and exact in her description.
It was fairly the journey, however she got here away with this magnificence for $65.
The chair was in nice situation, however coated in a couple of layers of mud. The bottom swivels, can modify up and down, and in addition tilts.
The bottom was connected to the chair with simply 4 giant screws.
I discovered this fascinating little steel stamp on the chair displaying that it’s by The Marble & Shattuck Chair Firm in Cleveland.
I googled that out of curiosity, and one thing tells me that I bought this chair at fairly a steal. I don’t know something about antiques in any respect, however I believe if this chair have been cleaned up and polished, it might truly be bought for a complete lot greater than the $65 that I paid for it.
I gained’t be throwing any a part of this chair away. However for now, I solely wanted the bottom. I eliminated these 4 giant screws holding it to the chair seat, after which began cleansing.
The steel on the bottom can also be stamped with the corporate identify and placement.
It regarded very nice after I bought all of it cleaned up! I believe it might use an excellent oiling or waxing. The wooden was attractive when it was damp, nevertheless it had a hazy look when it dried. However I didn’t have any good oil or wax readily available that I might use on it, so I left it like this for now.
I don’t know what any of those markings imply, however I took photos of them in case a few of you antiques specialists could know.
That is what was stamped on the underside of the seat.
Anyway, I wanted to determine find out how to connect this to my chair. As you may see, this base is sort of a bit taller than the unique legs that have been on the chair.
So I wanted this base to be recessed within the body of the chair seat as a lot as doable. I flipped the chair onto its again in order that the seat body was uncovered, after which I reduce and connected some scrap lumber, reduce to about 1 inch sq. on my desk noticed. I positioned these items as far to the highest of the body as doable, attaching them with wooden glue and 16-gauge nails.
Right here’s what it regarded like with all 4 of them connected.
Subsequent, I used brown craft paper to make a template that I might use to chop out plywood. I simply folded and taped it with packing tape till it match. My candy Cooper was the proper supervisor.
After which utilizing that template, I traced the sample onto a scrap piece of plywood, reduce it out with my jigsaw, after which nailed it to these items I had beforehand connected to the body.
I needed to enable for these steel items that protrude previous the highest of the bottom…
So after taking a number of measurements and marking the place the bottom would connect, the place the screwholes would go, and the place these two steel items would land, I used a 1 3/8-inch spade bit to drill out holes for these protruding steel items.
Then I drilled 4 pilot holes and connected the bottom with the 4 unique screws.
After which I turned the chair proper aspect up for the second of reality. I used to be so excited to see the way it regarded!!!
It’s all the things I had hoped for!! Listed here are a couple of totally different views with out commentary.
Isn’t that PERFECT?! I simply love the way it turned out! So right here’s yet another view of the chair earlier than…
And right here it’s now with its new material and new base.
Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I rework and enhance the 1948 fixer higher that my husband, Matt, and I purchased in 2013. Matt has M.S. and is unable to do bodily work, so I do nearly all of the work on the home on my own. You can learn more about me here.
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