This Year’s Christmas Chair

May I take this opportunity to show off my Christmas Chair for this year. Inadvertently I always seem to end up with a Christmas Chair in my home at this time of year. It’s a chair that is used to hold sweets, chocolate, gifts, cards that need to be sent and all manner of things that I need to remember throughout the busy days of December. It is usually placed by the door and more often than not next to my Singer Sewing Machine table. It’s a handy wee thing that is too small to be used for dumping and yet just large enough to be thoroughly useful.

Here it is before. Bought for a fiver at a local charity shop and needing some wood glue in places but only because it was a bit bendy. Nothing too serious.

I painted it a chalky pink in a slightly different shade to my recent lamp makeover. Don’t be alarmed, these two items are the only ones painted in this super bright pink and I’m not turning my house into Willy Wonka’s. But it’s important to have fun with decorating and pink, blue and green are awesome colours to do this with as they are suitable for each and every season of the year, depending on the shade.

And the seat was given an ‘at home’ reupholster. Pulling the fabric taut across the seat pad, folding the corners over underneath and stapling in place. Easy peasy!