Multiplying Egg Chairs…: a house log

I am back as promised with:

1. an egg chair update (since I simply tossed pillows on it but promised to share the rest of the details once we figured out a real seat and all that jazz)
2. three new egg chairs that we lately brought home

I guess we should skip right ahead to those huh? Do not worry, our living room does not look like an egg chair family reunion. They are of the dollhouse variety (you can read more on Clara’s Hands-on dollhouse here):

When a especially sweet reader (thanks Nicole!) told me CB2 had them on clearance for 50 cents each (wahooo!) I could not resist. They are in fact Christmas ornaments (hence the especially sale price so far into the year) and all I needed to do was clip off the string that was meant to hang them from the tree and they became serviceable chairs for a certain small pig family. So that is how three of them somehow ended up in my cart and I simply clicked “buy” – and the rest, as they say, is history.

The lively part is that Clara loves putting Olivia and the rest of her family in them since they are a bit more “hold-y” than her other chairs (they do not slip out as much as they do in the smoother and smaller brass chairs that she has in a few other rooms). So that is the dollhouse upgrade that is going on.

But back to the real-person-sized egg chair in the corner of the living room. Remember when we got it from a local thrift store and he looked like this?

And then we painted him and tossed a few already-had-them-around pillows on during the “simply for now” phase?

Well, we are at last in the “taa-daa, it is wrapped up” phase thanks to a fairly plain and low-cost-o update. Yup, we landed on a permanent seat cushion for the guy. And oh glad day, it does not look like a feminine hygiene product anymore.

Although I thought I might end up buying foam and fabric to make a custom seat, we ended up finding a seat cushion on sale for $14 at Pier 1 in a soft blue tone that is fairly much a neutral in our house (it is in nearly every room in some form – like art, pillows, curtains, etc). We were not sure if it would fit the chair though (it has a fairly unique rounded shape) so we simply picked up it and hoped for the best. Turns out it totally did not fit at all:

Womp-womp.

But then I wondered what would happen if I turned it around so the rounded part that should be the back of the cushion was facing out towards the front. Lo and behold, it sat a lot better and in fact looked like it made sense!

So I cut off the ties and the tag which were screaming “this is the back of the cushion” and did not look back. Oh yes, I am such a rebel. It in fact kind of looked like a custom cushion made simply for the chair since it is such an unusual shape and it laid so well on top of the chair. Then it was simply back-pillow time and I tossed a few distinct options on there. Like this blue and white back pillow from HomeGoods a while back:

And this faux fur pillow from Target last year:

And this bunny pillow from HomeGoods a few months back:

I at last landed on this rhino-meets-pig combo (the pig pillow is from a local store called Buford Rd Pharmacy a while back):

So that is the story of our egg chair’s quickie new cushion solution with a bonus dollhouse egg chair update tossed in there for good measure. Ten points for anyone eating an egg sandwich while reading this post.

Is anyone else out there buying chair cushions or turning things around to see if they work better backwards than forwards? Any other dollhouse decorating going on?