We passed Ashrie's first IKEA POÄNG armchair to her younger cousin, but now that she has a bigger room we bought another chair for her.
The classic piece is shrunk to kid-size but has all the features of the original version - the bentwood frame, the cantilevered seat and the slipcover.
Unfortunately, unlike its bigger counterpart, the children's version doesn't come with a variety of slipcover prints to choose from. So to give Ashrie's armchair a one-of-a-kind look, we've decided to give it a splash of color. The makeover didn't cost much but the result is visually dramatic.
We just assembled the chair except for the last procedure which is fixing the slipcover. We then took the slipcover, tied a string tightly on three different locations and colored it with DYLON Fabric Dye in Intense Violet as per instruction.
After the slipcover has been rinsed and air-dried, it's ready to be used. And it looks like this:
It's still wrinkled because it has been wrung out prior to air-drying but after a few sittings it will iron out eventually. Now it's off to Ashrie's bedroom as her reading chair.
Until next DIY!
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