How to Make a Desk Chair from a Car Seat

How To

This desk chair was made with a front seat from a 1989 Vauxhall Astra.
Good, comfortable desk chairs can sometimes be absurdly expensive, and even many of the most expensive ones concern themselves more with aesthetics rather than hour-on-hour comfort. If you’re on a budget (or, alternatively, a cheapskate), making a desk chair from a car seat and a surplus swiveling desk chair is straightforward, fun, and results in something extraordinarily comfortable. Since the strength and accuracy requirements are not all that great, it also makes an excellent first welding project for metalworking beginners.