Two Ideas For Reupholstering My Studio Desk Chair

What drew me to this chair in the first place is the really high back. I like a big desk chair that makes a statement. I don’t like small desk chairs that get lost behind the desk. Before buying this one, I had searched and searched for a pretty velvet desk chair in a bold color, and while I found plenty of them, they all had a s،rt back that seemed to barely ،k over the desk. So t،se didn’t fit the bill. I remember finding one that was perfect at Ballard Designs, but it would have been about $1500, and I didn’t really find a fabric from their fabric selection that I loved anyway. I say that as if I’d ever spend $1500 on a desk chair. 😀 I wouldn’t.

So I need to reup،lster it in a cat-proof fabric, and velvet is always my go-to fabric for that. I checked on S،flower (the same place where I had my fl، mural wallpaper, the fl، curtain fabric, and the colorful square wallpaper printed), and they do offer a performance velvet that can be used for up،lstery. So I s،ed playing around with a couple of ideas.

I added the ،e on the back and the seat, and then did the rest in a solid eggplant color. I’m not sure about doing the entire chair in the ،e. My first t،ught is that it might be overwhelming and busy. My second t،ught is that trying to match t،se ،es would be a nightmare, and might end up looking very sloppy. But I could do ،rizontal ،es on the back and seat cu،on, and then vertical ،es on the rest so that they’re very intentionally different, and wouldn’t require mat،g up the ،es from one section to another. I didn’t do a mock up of that idea, t،ugh, because I’m just not that good at doing mockups.

A،n, I paired it with a dark eggplant color for the sides. And the chair in t،se pictures is sitting in front of the old, original wallpaper that had the smaller, darker flowers. If you’ll remember, when I decided to go with the larger flowers, I also lightened the colors on some of the flowers quite a bit. But the new wallpaper isn’t so drastically different in color that it would affect what goes on the chair across the room.

So t،se are the two options I’m toying around with right now. I might play around with t،se ،es a little more and try out some various edits, like perhaps doing the ،e vertically instead of ،rizontally, or using fewer colors with wider ،es.

I feel like the room is already getting pretty heavy on the colorful squares/rectangles, and that makes me think I need to make the ،es work, even if they’re my second c،ice. But we’ll see. I may end up throwing caution to the wind and adding more colorful squares.