This interest in how and where and why we seat ourselves is an ongoing adventure detailed here and lately expanding into a more focused search. Antique stores, people who make chairs, lots of googling, thrift shops, mid-century modern sellers, flea markets, classified ads .... have all been grist for the mill these past few months. What fun.
Still no actual chair has joined the household but in the interim, as often happens, a look at what is already here and is fine but the "fine" could be "finer" led to the idea of 'upholstering' which I mentioned might work on the comfy, reclining, outdoor plastic chairs that were unlovely in their weathered state. Plastic does not seem to age well, unlike wood.
This is the chair out on the deck.
This is a second chair in the house with some pleasant additions.
This is the third chair, in the living room, which, until ten minutes ago, resembled chair #2 but turning some stretchy fabric into a tube with a quick line of stitches and then pulling it completely over the chair resulted in this.
It is finer than it was and could be tweaked into being finer still (it's T-pinned at the top, not sewn, and I can imagine a heavy opaque material giving more of a 'glow) but for the moment it suits nicely while I quest on.
The reclining feature is still functional.
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