First things first! The folding camp chairs were really inexpensive (under $10 new), but not exactly comfortable after a while. We both have bad backs, and it had gotten so J. didn't like to spend long out there because it HURT.
We shopped endlessly to try to find comfortable padded folding chairs that were also short enough, since I am, looking at hundreds of chairs online (used to have some, but they got away...) We looked at non-folding overstuffed chairs in a variety of thrift stores, but we really need the versatility and the option of chairs we can fold away, in the small space.
Soooo...here's my solution! I tied chair seat cushions to the back to pad that area, and put a nice big soft bed pillow in the seat...that helps a lot with the place where the diagonal legs wanted to dig into my fanny!
Ugly as can be, of course, but a nice down throw we've had for years covers one of them, and a polar-fleece throw the other one. Now they look almost like Real Chairs, and they are a LOT more comfortable!
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The other project today was the new page on the tabs at top, dealing with and planning for small spaces! Click the link to see what we've done so far--I'll be adding to it as I think of things, I'm sure...
Creative solution!
ReplyDeleteBill said he could build Joseph a Morris chair (good on sore backs) but you can't fold it.
"A tightwad-gazette moment"- lol- love it. I own both compiled books from Amy....
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deek, I'm loving #1 and waiting on TG# 2! (Which, incidentally, I ordered for a penny...)
ReplyDeleteI've got a buddy who just poisons his life with envy--"why do THEY get big houses, why do they NEED such big cars, why does HE have such a beautiful woman, why can't _I_..." this and that. Amy's point there was that you shouldn't compare yourself to others, it'll make you crazy--and that's true in so MANY arenas! Looks, weight, age, wealth, freedom, talent, blah blah blah...
And Vicky, I'm drooling! I LOVE Morris chairs, we have one in the LR, but you're right, they don't fold...and they're pretty big. I'm really glad I decided on 10 x 10 rather than 8 x 10!! Give Bill a big thank-you hug, though...
Shouts of "Eureka!" from all of us,Kate.I have a special sympathy for Bad Backs because I have a touchy one too.Few chairs are comfortable(and forget car seats!).
ReplyDeleteMy grandfather had a Morris Chair when I was a bitsy. How I loved to climb into that chair with "my Pops" or play with its back positions, and how I would love one, now,in my living room.
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It's the best solution we've come up with so far, Annie, thanks! When we got the comfy chair for the cabin, I didn't mind a "real" chair that didn't fold, and I STILL sat in dozens to find one that fit me. (Hooray for secondhand stores!) I was actually ready to try to find one that size, non-folding, for the shed, but we do need to be able to rearrange seating. Glad this occurred to me!
ReplyDeleteI saw a Morris in a secondhand store near here months ago, but of course it's gone now. Even our cats love the one in our LR!
Whatever works, right? I can relate to the back problems and uncomfortable chairs, too. If you have something that can get you by now--then you can keep your eyes open. I bet the perfect chairs will come to you within the next year. Thing have been just falling into place with the shed all along. ;)
ReplyDeleteThat's what I figured, Rita! We're more comfortable now, and then the Universe offers something better, we'll be prepared (and not so ache-y!)
ReplyDeleteI hope the chairs work out for you this way. For me it's easy, most wooden kitchen chairs are more comfortable for my back than any soft of curved chair.
ReplyDeleteWhat is that old saying? Something about form before function or function before form? I tend to do function first and then make the best out of it. Seems like that's what you did with the chairs. Much better than being uncomfortable physically due to having to have the chair look like its "supposed to".
I think you're lucky, Timaree! Definitely not the case for me. And actually it's "Form follows function" and you're right, we sort of did!
ReplyDeleteI just came over from A Spattering and will enjoy reading all of your posts on your little cottage. I, too, have a cottage, mostly for play - prayer, reading, meditating. It's heated when I' in it with a fireplace which has a heater in it. I'd like to invite you to come over to Pinecones and Roses and look take a peek at my cottage posts. I love your drawings, wish I could have that wonderful control, I'm very sloppy, compared.
ReplyDeletedoes Diane have a blog link to Pinecones and Roses? I love cottages.
ReplyDeleteJoan, yes, and it's magic. Take a peek: http://pineconesroses.blogspot.com/
ReplyDeleteThanks, much, Diane! I wish you had tags, so I could find all your cottage posts...and sometimes I have control and sometimes not! Life's like that, eh? :-)
May I just say that I LOVE the page of chairs?? Beautiful drawing and washes there... but that's no surprise ;D.
ReplyDeleteThanks, sweetie! I love the page, but I'm delighted to have replaced the camp chair!
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