Forced Myself

This lack of ambition taking its toll as I'm not doing much of anything!

Even though I wanted to do this project while the weather was still nice I really had to force myself to get started on it. The good thing is once I got going I got into it and it was actually fun!

My project was to turn this old chair that was sitting under my desk,

into a stool. 

I'm not exactly sure but I think it was part of a long ago dining room set of my paternal grandmothers. My dad had it in his house and when we moved him out I took it home with me. 

I used it in our bedroom for a while to sit on while putting on shoes and when I replace it with a bench I almost threw it out. I'm glad I didn't because I saw this on a DIY site that I follow 

and thought it would be a perfect project for that old chair!  

First step was to remove the old seat covers. 

Underneath it was the original seat cover, I think. It's looks vaguely familiar to me. I must remember it from when I was a child!

I removed the gross old padding and all that remained is the wooden bottom.

Then I cut the back of the chair off, cleaned and sanded it,  and spray painted it black. Isn't spray paint a wonderful thing? I know it's not for everything but for this project it worked so good and was so quick! 

I bought a couple of these from WalM@rt to make masks with but I thought it would work good for this stool, too. It's just a thin cotton so it won't hold up to a lot of wear and tear but for now it thought it was good enough. 

I replaced the foam padding and Rich helped me tack on the material. 

Here it the finished product. Not perfect by any means but it's better than that old chair. 

Plus it fits good underneath the desk. 

Now I need to put painting the desk black on my project list! 

It feels good to get something done after weeks of having no ambition for much of anything!

Coming up on the next post: I am gainfully employed again! At least for a few months anyway!