When I was about ten (or so) my parents purchased some old hospital chairs. They were comfortable beasts that had vinyl covers and real wood frames. I loved them, though they certainly bought too many. I think the original intent was to recover the chairs but that never happened. We did, however, recover other chairs from time to time that were laying around. I even covered one (poorly - used a regular stapler) when I was bored one time. It’s just something you did with older furniture.
Now it seems like it’s trendy again to recover furniture. When I saw this article, I could just imagine my mother saying, “See, I just did that the other day” in reaction. With all of the “trendy” stuff smothered around their site, it just gives me flashbacks to being ten and doing crafts projects to make stuff like this because we had to. It was also just plain fun to do. You didn’t have this need to be trendy to recycle this old stuff or make cheap junk look cool.
Now people will pay $50 for a mobile made out of paper clips and poster board.
Thanks Lifehacker!
