Monday 28 February 2022

Revive a chair

 The girls had a pretty good quality chair for their room / school table. We go the chair from Dagmars sister. So the Chair was already loved and used by their Kids. Of course the years left some marks. The fabric cover had some worn out areas, the arm rest was partially gone, but the rest of the chair was still intact and very reliable. 

We asked a local upholstery store for a price for the renovation of the chair. We were a bit surprised. The price for the frabric was already 100-120 Euro , labor etc. all together would have been almost 470 Euros. The NEW chair from Mayer Sitzmöbel costs around 240 Euro. So we decided to do it ourselves.

I found a Store in Germany : Polstereibedarf, where they had some tipps and tricks for the Do it yourself and also good prices for new fabrics. I ordered 2m fabric with some fleece for the back of the chair for 25 Euro. Link to their Page: https://www.polstereibedarf-online.de/

At Mayer Sitzmöbel I go the foamrubber armrests with blind rivets including shipping for 35 Euro.

Homepage: https://www.mayersitzmoebel.de/ 

The chair is a Mayer myFreaky 2436, just when you are interested.

Since my electronic stapler is already old and not functioning very well anymore I also bought a new BOSCH Akku Tacker PTK 3,6 Li for 55 Euro at Amazon:

https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B08VRS7B87/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1


So all together I paid 60 Euro for the fabric, fleece (and we still have some left) Armrests plus a good invested BOSCH stapler that will be used for many other things. The stapler is really great.


before Picture

pretty worn out of the edges

disassembling the chair




stripped

cutting the fabric

Charlotte assisted well

first piece almost done



mounted




removing the old backpart

the new fleece


preparing the holes for the screws like on the original

using the handy BOSCH stapler

mostly done, just the armrests missing

drillimng out the old rivets



new armrest already pushed over

new rivets mounted

finished

the "new" chair

Sunday 27 February 2022

BBQ & friends

 once again, sunny weather. I took the Trabant for a nice ride and had some BBQ with Friends and family.






















Tuesday 22 February 2022

February 22nd, 2022 at 22:22 CET

 it was a special day. February 22nd 2022 at 22:22 CET