{"id":899,"date":"2012-07-26T08:00:51","date_gmt":"2012-07-26T12:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ridiculousredhead.com\/?p=899"},"modified":"2014-09-03T21:45:13","modified_gmt":"2014-09-04T01:45:13","slug":"vintage-bent-plywood-chair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ridiculousredhead.com\/?p=899","title":{"rendered":"Vintage Bent Plywood Chair"},"content":{"rendered":"

While a good part of my job in the furniture makeover itself, I also spend a lot of time finding cool furniture. \u00a0Now I get to go to thrift stores and garage sales and call it work. \u00a0I also have a lot of helpers who are friends and family that give me a call if they find something they think I might like.<\/p>\n

My Aunt Sharon spotted a chair that was on the way to the landfill and looked pretty bad. \u00a0 She sent me a picture text and I told her to grab it. \u00a0I really liked the clean lines and curves. \u00a0Here is the before:<\/p>\n

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Please note the lovely, grungy and scratched finish. \u00a0And that upholstery is just gross.<\/p>\n

Step one, dismantle. \u00a0A word of advice when faced with a chair built like a jigsaw puzzle that has 6 separate wood parts and 30 screws – take pictures before you take it apart. \u00a0That way you will know where everything goes when you put it back together. \u00a0Don’t tell yourself that you will remember. \u00a0You won’t. \u00a0Instead you will curse and put things together and take them apart a bunch of times before it all works. \u00a0I took pictures and I still had a problem. \u00a0Each set of legs looks identical but they each bend a certain way. \u00a0And that upside down “u” piece that goes between them only works in one direction. \u00a016 screws in and then out, legs switched and then back in.<\/p>\n

Here we have were not one but two layers of gross upholstery. \u00a0One layer even has old upholstery tacks instead of staples.<\/p>\n

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Once everything was apart I stripped off the finish with Soygel. \u00a0Next I sanded all the parts to get a clean slate.<\/p>\n

Then all work halted. \u00a0I had no idea what to do with this one. \u00a0Usually I see something and know exactly what I want to do with it but this one had me stumped. \u00a0Before it was stripped, I wanted to paint it cobalt blue but once I saw how pretty the wood was \u00a0I couldn’t do it. \u00a0This is a bent plywood chair and the layers of wood are such a great detail. \u00a0Thonet was a famous maker of these chairs but I there are no markings to tell if this is one of his. \u00a0There is a sliver of the original tag underneath but it’s not much help.<\/p>\n

I have stained a bunch of things walnut lately and wanted to branch out. While I was making a bunch of samples of stain on small boards to use as samples, I really liked the oak. \u00a0I thought it was a nice light brown.<\/p>\n

Well here is another word of advice – stain looks different on different wood. \u00a0My sample board is birch and very white. \u00a0This chair is not. \u00a0While the chair looked beautiful it really didn’t match the upholstery I was going to use. \u00a0I finished the stain and covered it with PolyWhey in semigloss. \u00a0And then work halted.<\/p>\n

I had now been working on this chair since the beginning of April. \u00a0And then one day I looked at \u00a0SwankySwell’s shop<\/a> on Etsy. \u00a0There you will find original designs on organic fabric. \u00a0I saw one that was perfect. \u00a0And work resumed.<\/p>\n

So here is the after.<\/p>\n

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A close up of the bent plywood legs.<\/p>\n

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And here is a shot of the back. \u00a0You can see a little better how all the parts get connected. \u00a0The chair is available in our shop which you can check out here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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My Repurposed Life<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While a good part of my job in the furniture makeover itself, I also spend a lot of time finding cool furniture. \u00a0Now I get to go to thrift stores and garage sales and call it work. \u00a0I also have…
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