You're gonna laugh. We are making thrones for Bible School at church. They need a "king" size one and a "Queen size one". They don't have to match, just one be larger and more ornate than the other. I found a chair up on the storage deck in our pole barn (well, it's not a pole barn and it's not a barn. OK it's a storage building 24' x 32' and has 12' sides.). This chair used to have an upholstered seat and no arms. So I thought why not sand it down a bit, pad a piece of plywood with a royal color blue/gold/burgundy fabric and paint the rest of the chair with gold. He can add arms made out of the padded siderails from a waterbed. Then the king size one he thought he'd make out of 2" x 4"s and rip them in half for the legs and frame. In the meantime, I'm going to put the word out that if anybody around has an old wooden dining room chair they want to throw our way, maybe we can dude it up to do the job for the second one.
I was going to Joanne fabrics today but knew that any satiny or velvety fabric would be pricey. I stopped at Salvation Army and bought a floor length royal blue satin formal for $4.99. It is beautiful and has plenty of fabric to do both chairs. Can't wait to get at this project. Pete thinks I'm crazy. Do you remember seeing these crowns we made for the three little granddaughters for Christmas?
The board that is left from where he cut them has a cool shape and I'm thinking that maybe we can incorporate that shape somehow into the back of the chair.