Knitted Furniture from Patricia Graf

Looks like knitting is an inexhaustible source for inspiration for designers and furniture makers. Earlier I have posted knitted chairs and knitted wallpaper. Today I found couple more unbelievable pieces of furniture related to knitting. These two amazing things were created by Patricia Yasmine Graf - young German designer. 
This crocheted stool has warm cozy looks and moreover it has integrated footwarmer. Great idea for cold winter evenings.

This crocheted easy chair is comfortable, beautiful and functional as well. It's tentacles can hold remote control, magazine or anything else you need to relax.

More cool furniture and creative accessories can be found on Patricia web-page www.pyg-design.de.

One more stool

Last time I had a lot of posts about stools' remodeling and renovation. I don't even know why. Hope it's the last stool in row. Next time I'll post about another furniture piece, I promise.
The summer memories inspired vikulin to create this stool for kids. Summer rain, grandmother, milk and all other childhood memories make this stool so cute, so warm and tender:

A lot of other handmade ideas and lessons can be found in vikulin Live Journal blog. This particular stool can be found here. By the way -  this stool is for sell, so if you really like it you can buy it.

Broken Stool = Mosaic Table

There was the following stuff, to be honest some kind of garbage:
1) broken stool without a top
2) cut circle from table top
3) some Polymer Clay circles-flowers
4) two ceramic tiles - white and light blue
5) rods
But if we put everything together.... we can have perfect stylish mosaic table:

All steps of this transformation you can find on the picture below. First of all attach circle from a table top to the stool. Scratch table top and cover it with tile glue. Put on the glue polymer flowers and pieces of tiles. Before you start putting mosaic on glue put it together on the another table. Glue is drying fast so you have only about 15 minutes to transfer your mosaic from one place to other. If you don't use ceramic tiles you can use which best fits your material. When done with mosaic, efface the surface and cover it with oil based finish twice.
Next steps are not required, there is the place for you fantasy and view of your future table.
Take piece of bagging and remove some threads from it. Attach it to the ex-stool. Curve rods and nail it.
Add paper-mache roll to the table edge. Cover everything with bronze spray painting. Put some craquelure and cover everything with black painting. Now you have nice bronze cracks. Cover places you painted with water based finish.

Here is more detailed picture of table stands:

Thanks gashula for sharing this master-class with us. By the way she also makes nice handmade dolls that can be found in her blog. 

This master class was originally posted here.

Blue Handpainted Stool

I have not been here for a while as well as I did not post any "how to's". But I'm back and today I would like to show you how to create such a beautiful blue stool. Here are before and after pictures. Amazing, isn't so?

Let's start. Take old and ugly stool:

Next - remove old finish and painting using sanding paper or sanding machine, clean up stool and paint it. Acrylic blue painting was used in this case. You need to put couple layers for brighten and smoothen color.

Now we need to add some decorations. You need to buy some shims and paint them.

Add some patterns to the stands and attach shims using silicone glue or any other adhesive for metal, plastic or wood.  It's better to use transparent glue. That's all: 

Using this approach you can decorate anything in your home, and make it stylish and full of art. 

I would like to say thanks to lendigoo for creating this tutorial and sharing it with us.

Source  lendigoo.livejournal.com

How to create ethnic stool

This master class was prepared by Anna Butova. The source.

Tools and materials:
-wood stool

-stencil for drawing on top
-brushes 
-sponge
-tissue-paper (one for decorative covering of walls or thin packing paper that usually can be found in boxes with the new shoes)
- white acrylic paint
- acrylic decorative paints
- acrylic varnish for wood
- rope
- scissors
- rubber scraper 

Here is stencil marked above

It is better to remove top of the stool before starting work.

Step 1. Cover the seat using white paint using wide whitewashing brush. Create two layers. First layer - base - should be totally dry before putting second one. Second layer will be used as glue base so it should be thick. 

Step 2.  Thin tissue-paper or packing paper should match the size of stool seat. It should be bigger than seat in 30-50%. Crinkle the paper. You should have small wrinkles on it as a result.

Step 3.  Spread paper over the stool top on wet second layer of paint. 

Step 4.  Using the same brush you used for painting and your palms really careful and gentle force paper against the stool seat.
Step 5.  Bend rest of paper and glue it to the stool using the same way as you used for the top. 

Step 6.  Cut paper parts that you don't need and let the stool dry.

Step 7.  Now you should cover your seat with thin layer of white paints using paint and brush you used in previous steps. 

Step 8.  Put on palette needed amount of decorative acrylic paint. The color used for this stool is named "old gold". Using wide brush paint the seat. 

Step 10.  Wait until the first layer of acrylic paints dries. Now you can put second layer. Add to the acrylic paint "old gold" you used for the first layer umber acrylic paint, mix it on the palette and paint seat as you did for first layer. Let it to dry completely. 

Step 11.  It is time to work on stool stands. Cover them with two layers of acrylic paint. Make sure that first layer is dry before start to put second one. 

Step 12.  Put stencil on the top of stool seat. 

Step 13.  Put couple colors of acrylic paints on the palette. Using sponge paint your lizard.

Step 14.  Carefully remove stencil.
Step 15.  Using paint brushes add details to drawing

Step 16.  Let everything to dry and put parts of stool together. Now cover parts of stool with ornament. 

Step 17.  Enlace stands using rope and paint it in different contrast colors.

Step 18. Draw any other decorations you want to see on this stool.
Step 19. Cover stool with acrylic varnish.

Thats all.