Flower Power Chair

[thebluepixie]

I made this a little while ago so i don't have pictures of the original chair(s)- sorry!.
This chair was rescued from the parts of three chairs which were headed for a bonfire (so the legs, back and seat all came from different chairs), they were basically your bog-standard pine flat-packed dining chairs but after years of abuse they were scratched, wobbly or else bits had actually snapped.  I don't want to think how many hours and packs of sandpaper it took to get the bits of the chair smooth again, the seat especially had some really deep gouges i wanted gone but lets say i sanded for so long that the motor on my electric sander burnt out and i had to finish by hand! The flowers are all individually cut out from a huge stash of gardening magazines I found in the attic (credit has to go to my mum for spending hours cutting flowers out with me : ta.xx), the flowers were then stuck to the wood with pva glue and then finally I varnished the whole thing half to death because there needed to be a lot of layers to keep the paper and the soft pine protected from being damaged again. So basically a frustrating project but I love how it turned out, a permanent reminder of spring.     

[thegracklegirl]

OMG this is so fantastic!!! I would LOVE to have this chair in my home!!!

Awesome awesome work on this! It's beautiful.

I hit "This Rocks!"

[sarahmakes]

This is great. Anyone who removes paint from furniture gets my utmost respect--I stripped a repainted a whole bedroom set once and it was the worst! Your chair looks awesome.

[raeonix]

I love this chair, I am completely jealous!

[Ms. Rosie]

Wow that is fabulous!  

[VALiant]

This rocks!

I have major respect for your flower-cutting skills.

[TheMistressT]

I'm so glad that you think it was worth it, because I sure do!  It's amazing that it was 3 different chairs to begin with, too!  If you tackle something like that again and are going to decoupage or paint it, let me say 2 word that will change everything, "wood putty".  Fill the deep gouges and then you just have to sand a little bit.

[Kookaloo_Starr]

AWESOME!! When I get new chairs for the kitchen I'm saving one ratty old one to do this too 

[katchoo1]

Gorgeous!  That was a lot of work but a great result!

[jagger]

It's so bright and spring-y!  It looks like a very ...happy... chair, if that makes sense.   

[gannon]

I would love having that in my kitchen--fantastic job!

[piratelibrarian]

That's tremendously awesome!  If you're ever wont to give it up it would fit right in with my personal mish-mash chair collection.

[llisaredd]

I love everything about this chair! This is going on my wists

[realturtlesoup]

This is so happy! I'm also wicked impressed with the patience all that cutting-out must have required...I usually get super impatient and can't finish collecting/prepping material

[selkie]

Beautiful - what could be better than decoupage and an old wooden chair???
Selkie

[jpletting]

So pretty and girly! Love it!

[McJulie-O]

Fantastic!
And your mom is an angel!

[Summerset]

The reason I like this is because I usually find decoupage way too "busy" and messy, but having one theme with the flowers makes it fantastic!   Kudos!

[FarahAbood]

Good job!.

[onychophora]

Wow Wow Wow! Soooo much work! I am so impressed!

[Fabricator]

Wow!  This is beautiful!  Your hard work really paid off.

[balkandina]

I LOVE that you made it out of 3 chairs!! It's lovely!

[sonnetbird]

What a beautiful chair!