Thrift Store Chair

Here's my latest and most adorable thrift store steal.  To my delight, it is sturdy and the rush seat is in pretty good condition.

However, it did need a little TLC.  It was missing a piece of trim in the front, under the rush seat.

Since I have zero carpentry skills...

I "repaired" the chair with a two dollar strip of self-adhesive vinyl flooring, an exacto knife, and a glue gun. The fact that the vinyl flooring was flexible made attaching it to the curved frame very easy.  However, the adhesive on the back didn't hold the strip securely until I added a few dabs of hot glue. (Update:  That glue did not hold.  Today I applied Gorilla Glue.  So far, so good).

I really got lucky on how well the "wood" color of the flooring strip matched the real wood on the chair.  

Here is the chair all settled into it's new home.

I hope you are enjoying your weekend!

Eilis

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