It took me over two years to finish this chair. That includes me
drop kicking parts of it into the cellar for six months at a time and
threatening to throw it into the recycle bin. Oh, and having a bit of a
cry when its legs were broken off whilst it was still drying, as well as
when it was dropped and bent out of shape. I'm not sure yet how happy I
am about it being part of our home yet. Having spent so long building and repairing it, only to find a crack across the seat just after celebrating a year of it being used and abused in our home without getting damaged is a bit disheartening to say the least! Like all the papier mache furniture I've made it's not turned out anything like I originally envisioned. It was meant to be a computer chair and rotate on wheels. Unfortunately I couldn't find a computer chair base that would take the weight of two adults.
Apparently it's technically a love seat as it's too small to be a two seater sofa but too big to be an ordinary chair!
The texture is that of most modern pulp furniture. It wasn't going to be red either. I was offered a box of old music sheets from someone's garage but haven't received them yet so I used up some red scrap paper left over from piñata making.
It's not quite finished yet. It needs some mould proofing (in this case I'll be spraying it with natural antibacterial agents) and then varnishing. In the mean time it's a usable seat in a house where there's often a fight for furniture!
I am already working on other pulp furniture projects but I'm struggling to get hold of any more shredded paper. I like the feeling of knowing the materials I've used have been rescued from a landfill. So far I've used around 15 litres of PVA and 15 bags of shredded paper.
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