Because I decided to make my chair at home, it took a lot more time and effort than I really wanted it to take up. I spent the majority of the weekend cutting out the cardboard pieces and fitting them together. The actual putting together the chair part of the process was done by Sunday night...but the painting and stuff took me a couple of extra days. I decided to make a rocker-ish chair (not a chair for rockers, but a chair that rocks...) It actually doesn't rock right now because structurally I'm pretty sure that the chair would fall apart if you leaned back on it too far. I'm really quite concerned about the creaks that it makes also when I sit on it. 
The design of the seat part of the chair is also not really comfortable. I think it would have been better if I had put the joining pieces closer together than what I have them at so far.
The one thing that I really liked about making the chair was the paper carvings (not sure what else they're called) that I did for the detailing of the side of the chair. As of 2pm on Wednesday, I'm only 3/4 done with them for one side of the chair and I'm not sure if I'll even be able to finish it by tomorrow's critique. I guess we'll see how it goes. But I really enjoyed the painting and design part of making my chair. I wanted to do some kind of Asian wave thing with some lotus blossoms at the bottom. My first idea turned out to be way more intensive than I could handle and in order to make the due date, I had to modify my design. Hopefully I'll be able to finish in time with this design...but I like it much better than I did with the first one.
The design of the seat part of the chair is also not really comfortable. I think it would have been better if I had put the joining pieces closer together than what I have them at so far.
The one thing that I really liked about making the chair was the paper carvings (not sure what else they're called) that I did for the detailing of the side of the chair. As of 2pm on Wednesday, I'm only 3/4 done with them for one side of the chair and I'm not sure if I'll even be able to finish it by tomorrow's critique. I guess we'll see how it goes. But I really enjoyed the painting and design part of making my chair. I wanted to do some kind of Asian wave thing with some lotus blossoms at the bottom. My first idea turned out to be way more intensive than I could handle and in order to make the due date, I had to modify my design. Hopefully I'll be able to finish in time with this design...but I like it much better than I did with the first one.
