The "Metamorphosis" project: a desk and chair.

Hello everybody, here's a new update for my ongoing "Metamorphosis" project; a project inspired by and centered around the famous story by Franz Kafka. 

This time I'm sharing images of a desk and chair to be placed in Gregor Samsa's room. By the way, Gregor is the protagonist of Kafka's story, a guy that woke up one day and discovered that he had turned into a bug. Indeed, this can happen to the best of us...

 

Both items were already painted when I bought them, but the idea was to change them in such a way that they acquired a 'personality' of their own. In my view they were simply too plain and boring to be used without alterations. 

For starters, the desk, which was actually a washing table, had a trimming on the back and sides which I removed. Then I covered the tabletop with a sheet of cardboard which was painted and weathered to look like leather or wood.

 

The original painting of the table was removed for the most part, and replaced with new coatings to make it darker and more in line with the rest of the furniture in Gregor's room.

Then I turned my attention to the chair, which was similarly stripped of its paint, and received new coatings. The fabric of the seat was weathered to make it look well worn because, as you may know by now, I like things much more that way!

 

The below images show two examples of the same chair; the one on the left in its original condition, and next to it the one which received my 'treatment'. 

For some reason, a chair that looks old and 'tired' is much more attractive to me that a new and shiny one! Same goes for interiors and furniture in general, not only in the miniatures world, but also in my own apartment. So, if my mom should decide to visit me and started asking when I'm gonna paint that ceiling or replace what's broken, I would invariably say: "Leave it, mom, it's industrial!"

This is it for now! I hope you liked it, and look forward to welcome you again here for the next update on this special project!

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Jane's attic, update XXVII: a well-worn chair.

Today I'm sharing another finished small project, this time a 'Louis Something' chair that came as a laser cut kit from Melissa's Miniwereld, and which will find a place to live in Jane's attic. The below image shows the kit after unpacking.

I must say I like Melissa's kits, and after having bought several of them I already became familiar with their distinctive, sweet aroma of burned cardboard, that greets you as soon as you open the package. It ranks high on the list of my favorite aroma's, together with petrol, coffee, burned rubber, and a few others that I really cannot discuss here.

Anyway, the kit was easily assembled, although it took me some time to digest the written instructions, but that's just me being more acquainted with Ikea and Kinder Bueno Surprise egg assembly manuals. The above pic shows the assembled chair, minus the upholstery and painting, which is at one's own discretion. Of course at this point I could have chosen to leave the chair looking like the seat of an old German war plane, but that would be too easy. So I decided to work on it, making it look very nice first, then ravishing it completely to make it suitable for the attic.

And here is the end result! I must admit that the backrest looks as if the chair was used by someone carrying a chainsaw on his back, but I guess that's the beauty of it. You may also note that one of the front legs seems to be a half millimeter shorter than the rest, but any wobbling can be easily solved using a miniature beer mat! In any case, I do hope that you like it!

Thanks for visiting, and see you next time!

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