My mama was here visiting and just headed home. She helped light a crafting fire under me. I made amazing progress on our office + guest room…. as in, I might actually be able to share the final reveal SOON! See how I updated this old chair and transformed it into my “Stop Pinning Start Making Chair“.
I searched high and low and sadly, I did not take a good before picture of this chair. See below for the best picture I could find. I inherited from my Grandma Gloria and although the sentimental value is high, the actual chair was really lacking.
The first thing I did was remove the slip on canvas back and then give that chair some bright and cheerful white spray paint love!
I got this awesome stop pinning start making canvas tote bag and thought it would be the PERFECT back to my chair.
It just so happened that the bag was the perfect size to cut down and apply to my chair back! My chair’s original canvas was sagging, so after doing a little internal repair, it was good to go.
I made a paper template of the inside portion of the chair pack. And then used that to cut the tote bag down to size.
Since I was applying the tote to the back of the chair, I decided to just use hot.glue to adhere the two pieces together.
I also added this fun white felt ribbon to the perimeter. It helped hide the cut edge.
And my final touch was adding a paper flower from the Spring Oh Joy party line at Target. I could cover my house top to bottom in these paper flower and still want more. I major heart them. I cut out a little leaf from some spare ribbon I had sitting around.
I loved taking that fun tote and turning it into something even better. Have you done something like that before?
And even though this post is called Stop Pinning Chair Update, please feel free to pin, pin, pin!
Adorable!! And the perfect quote for a crafter 😉
Love your chair makeover. Love the quote.
Bev
So cute! And good advise too.
great sentiment!!
So cute and fun! Just pinned it to the Fridays Unfolded link board and thank you for sharing at Fridays Unfolded!
Alison
Nancherrow
What a great way to use the bag on the chair. That’s a great quote too 🙂 LOVE it and pinning!
Love this, Amy!
I love this project! Such a great reminder too!
CUTE! Love it, Amy!
SUCH a cute makeover Amy! Totally brilliant to use that tote and the the wording couldn’t be more perfect or inspirational for your office! Totally crushing on that little paper flower too … looks like a Target trip is in my future 😉
Cutee! And something I need to do.. Start making!!