Repurposed antique cane chair

I found these antique chairs in facebook marketplace and caught my eye for a repurpose project.

Well you must be thinking its a tough job to fix it. Guess what if you have donr my basic upholstery 101 project of upholstered ikea foot stool then tgis is a piece of cake.

All you need for this project

  • Chalkpaint for the chair
  • Plywood for seat
  • Cushion foam
  • Fabric for upholstery
  • Staple gun

Step1 – Ripping

Start by ripping off the broken cane seat. This is how it looks after ripping the cane off.

Step2 – Paint, Distress and wax

I wanted to do double shading on this so painted with an Anniesloan french blue first and then topped it with my selfmade chalkpaint by just mixing annisloan old white to a regular paint.

After some light distressing and applying dark wax you can see the color underneath.

Step3 – Mark up

Take a paper and place it on the cane seat and mark the seat shape or round based on the cane holes.

Cut out the paper and do the marking on plywood.

Step4 – Upholster

Please refer to my upholstery 101 project for instructions.

Step 5 – Screw the seat

The title said it…screw in the upholstered seat and you are all set!!!

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