Hiding my ugly chair better

When I lived in Amsterdam I bought a comfortable chair from a secondhand shop. It wasn't very big; I could just carry at home. It was very ugly, but if you drape a throw, or something that functions as such, over it you can't see that. It served me well.

It travelled with me to Norway and then Britain. And it obviously came to me in my current house. Where it fulfilled a very important function. Namely: comfortable chair in the living room. And that sounds obvious but it isn't. My living room has a notoriously narrow door. There's not that much furniture you can actually fit through that! But this chair did. And I appreciate a comfortable chair.

I kept these pieces of fabric over them with Celtic knots or trees of life or that sort of stuff; I suppose we all recognise them. You can buy them on open air markets and such. Are they ideal? No! They're not the prettiest, and they are also a bit too fragile to actually put your weight on. They rip. But they do the job for a while.

Then I ended up at Moel y Ci for reasons of bread. And they also had some sort of blanket on sale. It was handwoven and beautiful and even affordable. That was a chance I couldn't let's slip. I bought it!

It is not quite big enough to cover the entire chair, but it covers the bulk. And it does it beautifully. I'm really chuffed! I should sometimes go back to see if they sell more. I have two comfortable chairs in my living room, after all.

Sometimes it's a good thing that I can be a bit slow. I hadn't really made a particularly strong effort to replace the ripped throw with the Celtic knots. And that allowed me to still have the chair covering vacancy when I bumped into this local product. Excellent! A small purchase, but a conspicuous positive change in my living room.

Success! 

My camera just wouldn't capture the vivid colours of the blanket. This is an attempt to use a filter to make it happen after all. Still not a success! The red comes out now, but the green and yellow don’t…