Mini Mid-Century Modern Chair

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to remake a chair you might own, but smaller? If you have, this instructable is for you! The following steps teach you how to re-make your very own tiny chair!

Hi! I'm Thea, a grade 12 student at the Bishop Strachan School who loves to make tiny things. This tiny keepsake is perfect for your desk to hold an eraser, a marker, or any relatively small stationary item! Not to mention, the chair would go beautifully in any doll house its put in!

To make your tiny chair, you need:

• tweezers
• glue
• the chair pieces

Planning is one of the most crucial steps in designing anything, so it's important you ensure the math and measurements are perfect. In addition to this, you also want your chair looking great, so come up with a few designs that you think would look best!

In this step you will be making the pieces of your chair and cutting them. For me, I used a laser cutter to cut the pieces I wanted out of wood, so I used Adobe Illustrator to plan out the pieces I needed. If you are using a material like cardboard, using scissors or an exacto knife to cut work great too; I recommend using a ruler with the exacto knife for optimal precision. Remember: always cut more pieces than you need!

The first step of gluing is to put down the skeleton of your tiny chair. This tiny piece going around the seat of the chair ensures stability since the arms of the chair are quite heavy relative to the back pegs. You can add this to as many parts of your chair that you think you need, I recommend (although I didn't end up doing this) doing this on the bottom of your chair as well if you feel your chair needs extra stability for the legs and back.

Next, glue the legs on to the seat of the chair. This relatively easy and I leave the spacing between each leg up to you. I used wood glue which solidifies quite quickly, but I recommend you try to press the leg to the chair for at least a minute or so depending on what glue you use so the legs don't dry crooked.

Now, you take the back pegs, I only did 2, and you glue them to the arm and back piece of your chair. I added an extra piece to go under for the look of my chair since I wanted to to be mid-century modern, but again, this is completely optional and up to you! Its really important that you hold the pegs in place for around a minute so they glue evenly to the seat of the chair.

Finally, glue the bottoms and a portion of the back of the pegs to the seat and hold in place for one to two minutes to make sure the glue doesn't slide. Using tweezers comes in super handy for this step, as its hard to hold the pegs in place with your fingers. Once its fully dry after about 30 or so minutes, congratulations, you have made your very own tiny chair!