Sitting comfortably? A Chair Makeover

We have two chairs which we had given a home to when some office somewhere was closed or revamped. So long ago now neither of us is very sure about just where they came from.

Perfectly "serviceable",  quite comfortable for sitting at a desk, and now getting a bit shabby( but not in a chic way.)

 I happened to be standing next to one of them, waiting on the phone, when it occured to me to imagine the fabric covering the back and seat in something like a zany zebra print. It would work; give the chair a whole new personality. The black frame-work and polished wood arm rests are fairly classic office design. By the time all the continuing apologies for being kept waiting and further assurances that my call was valued and that my patience would soon be rewarded with the attention of an advisor, finally came to an end, I had worked out how to take off the seat and the backrest and how many pieces were sewn together to make up the upholstery.
 HeWhoUsesTheOtherChair seemed to have reservations about a zebra print but on a trip to the big blue store we agreed on one of their livelier prints. The least fun bit of the project was pulling out all the staples that held the fabric onto the seat and backrest. I needed those pieces to come off intact so that I could use them as patterns to cut out the new fabric. That done though, the rest was a breeze. Some work on the sewing machine to overcast the edges for the backrest and to sew the seam around the seat, then using the gun tacker to staple them onto the chair pieces and finally  reassembling the chair. Ta-dah!

One office chair with a little  pizzazz. So good, so easy and enough fabric left over we did the other one.

Not entirely a UseStuffIAlreadyHave project but for the cost of a metre of very inexpensive furnishing fabric we have 2 chairs with a new lease of life.
Do they match the decor in any of the rooms? Um, well not exactly - they are just fun pieces in their own right.