Chair Gone Wild

While browsing through craftster.org, we were blown away by this amazing Zebra Chair, made over by Brianna Karl, a sophomore at Colorado State University. Student by day, hookah bar hostess by night, Karl collects vinyl chairs in her spare time. She picked this one up for $15 (one of her pricier purchases), and, obsessed with zebra prints, decided to give it a wilder image.

“I had to tape around the vinyl, paint a white base (like five times), then paint each little stripe by

hand, no stencils,” she says. The stripes alone took her ten hours. Although Karl sews lots of clothes and bags, this was her first furniture project. “It doesn’t look difficult, but it really is.”

Maybe, but that’s not stopping Karl from future makeovers. She just found a salon-style hair-drying chair in the garbage, and has plans to turn the top part into a monster or alien “eating the sitter’s head.”

Yummy! —Carla Sinclair