Adapting mainstream

Or: "The great fixing year continues - stories from the do-it-yourself workshop"

Each and every student's home has got many many pieces of furniture by Ikea. I love Ikea really very much! But i actually want to have "special" pieces of furniture that fit each other AND that fit within our flat, which is settled in an old town house of the 15th century. So you see, you either renew totally everything of the flat, so that modern furnishing doesn't seems out of place, which would mean to do away with the chunky wooden floor, but i couldn't have the heart to do that!

So we chose the second possibility, which is to adapt everything that's inside the flat to the style of the house.
In one special example i'm currently concerned with, i repainted Ikea-chairs (which were called Stefan). The goal was to give them a certain dark-wooden tone that fits the floor and the wooden old windows. And by the way - and in using a certain glaze - those chairs should look a bit more antique.



Here you can see the metamorphosis: on the right handside the original chair, in the middle you can see on that's in treatment right now, and on the left you see the perfect chair...



Well, almost perfect! Of course there'll be then a soft cushion on it - life is hard enough after all ;)

And when finished i lent back in my chair enjoying perfect music:



Cheers, Ingrid the handygirl