My Front Curb Repurposed Inspired by El Nardo!
..Captain’s Chair Worn out by Number Ones Ass
El Nardo wore out yet another hand me down computer style office chair. Second in the last two years he’s lived here. I think it’s from squirming around while Youtubing and gaming. He just rubs down the back and seat covering from restless shifting. Nardo’s a big boy probably 200lbs and around 6 feet tall and 32 years old. He breaks a lot of things. He’s kind of rough on everything. Pushes and clunks and bangs shit into stuff. I hide all my valuable stuff so he doesn’t get his mitts on it. And so within 6 months of getting his ass on it, he wore out the upholstery, which was probably made in China anyway. So his mama passed down her computer chair and picked up a solid oak office chair circa 1960s. So I began to think, should I fix my computer chair, in this disposable society? It’s loaded with adjustables. In our throw-away society, even technically crafted objects are considered disposable..
I started to research. And that’s when I came up with the idea that I could go to the local serendipity and find a comfortable chair that I really like and bring it home and screw it to the base of the worn out computer chair. Sort of like Steampunk, if I get the era right. So, if you’ve paid $300 for a good hydraulic height and angle adjustments on a computer chair, have no fear, you can reupholster it if you can find the time or the craftsman to do it, or you can go find a used vintage chair in good shape that speaks to your sensibility and simply switch out the seating onto the base.
Here are some examples…
Steampunk Colonial style sitting chair on computer base
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Majestic, Worn and Weathered Winchester Armchair
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Repurposed Barber Dentist Computer Chair
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Old Shoeshine Boy Repurposed Computer Chair
My worn out office chair
This explains it all…
Happy hunting my friends!
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