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Agreed it's graphic.
Cool? Maybe to the touch, but not to the eye. This simply looks like a DIY gone bad. Very bad.

I'm all for rescuing unloved, unwanted furniture and turning it something cool to make it's former owners rue the day they ever pitched it toward the curb. This, however, is just horrific. It would have been better off left as it was. Clearly, this demonstrates that tape was not meant to have warm rear-ends rubbed across it on a daily basis. What a mess.

http://www.snpp.com/episodes/1F05.html

Brad: We can all learn a lot from this young man here, this, this --
Bart: Rudiger.
Brad: -- Rudiger. And if we can all be more like little Rudiger --
Marge: His name is Bart.
Brad: [snaps] His name isn't important! What's important here is that
this lad has fully developed ego integrity with well-defined
boundaries.
Bart: [snoring noises]
[Audience laughs]
-- Bart, everyone's obnoxious inner child, "Bart's Inner Child"

I just threw up on my keyboard!

that's a chair that only a teenager could love.

This must be art I do not understand, yet sells for $170,000. Glad it is in someone else's house.

Disturbing. Icky. Yuck.

um. no. please. why?

Good idea.
Poor execution.

Well at least I got some healthy debate going!

is this a late April Fools post?

no debate. we all agree it's a monstrosity.

Yeah it looks horrible, but come on people! This is a teenager we are talking about. Give him some credit. I'm sure we all did things like this when we were teenagers, I KNOW I did. Now I just know better... ;)

Why are we wasting our time on this?

I applaud the creativity that this young man took in taking what was essentially trash and re-purposing it. He used his creativity to make something that he likes for his space. Without spending a lot of money. I can't tell you how many teens I know that would just whine to mommy and daddy to go buy them a new desk chair for their room. But instead we get nit picky and leave snide comments? This is not a design from a professional, it was a great little showcase of a young mans creativity. Besides, it looks a lot better than the duct-tape apron I made when I was a teen! I think you all took your Grumpy Pills this morning. Thanks for sharing, Julie.

Not my thing at all, esthetically speaking, but I appreciate this teenager's eagerness to be so creative, and to express himself by trying something new. This is how we all start out, and as time goes by, we learn to cultivate our tastes into something more well groomed. This is the seed that blossoms later on as time and experiences go by.

I know when I was a teen, I had many decorative experiments. I was so proud of them then, and would cringe at them now as a 33 year old adult. But it was so important for me to be encouraged back then, because these experiments taught me so much as time went by! So for that... in that regard... great job. :)

Oh, this reminds me of writing song lyrics on my wall in permanent marker as a teenager. Not even GOOD song lyrics, really cheesy pop ones, but I swear they really MEANT something to me. I immediately regretted it and covered them with posters, so my mom didn't find out until she decided to sell the house and took all my "art" down before showing it... Eesh, that was not a fun scene.
This is a much better, less-permanent way to express one's angst through decor!

My poor mother, when I was 15 I painted my room in four or five different (hideous) colors, all swirled together like a lava lamp on the wall. I thought it was the coolest.

I think that it's great that this kid has made a unique, creative chair out of what was already an ugly old chair. He's experimenting, and developing his own style. I've got to say, I like it better than the tacky furniture and design that's marketed to teens at places like Pottery Barn Teen:

http://www.pbteen.com/gift/thm/thmguy/thmguystp/index.cfm

When I was as old as 16 I used purple wool to make fake 'cobwebs' to hang allover my bedroom ceiling - so I really can't criticize this boy!

LOL, the comments are funnier.

Was he doing this in an attempt to be creative, or was he just doing it because he had nothing better to do except attack a chair?

Look! DIY vase

(insert image here)

We visited our favorite Trader Joe's and while we were in the ladies bathroom, we noticed the fair trade organic coffee canister repurposed as a vase for summer bulbs. We were impressed with the colorful tulips and the heady aroma of industrial strength bubblegum room freshener.

We want to know how YOU use your product containers and which rooms you fragrance with bubblegum.



It actually DID look good. But the bubblegum smell ruined the effect.

I'm all for people trying things, eagerly attempting to do things. The results are sometimes less that spectacular, but that is true of a teen's chair or some of the costly items made by "professionals" or "artists" here too.

And while the results may not be perfect, this lads experiment may lead to this:
http://www.xmarkjenkinsx.com/nature.html
http://www.xmarkjenkinsx.com/storker.html

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Or maybe he'll end up writing a book like Jim Berg and Tim Nyberg:
ttp://www.amazon.com/Jumbo-Duct-Tape-Book/dp/0761121102

There is potential in everyone. I encourage people to try new things.

However, I don't necessarily WANT to see everyone's child's or neighbor's child's or cousin's neighbor's child's schoolmate's fingerpainting project or how a religious icon was made in their diaper (it's a miracle, all worship the diaper).

If the above chair had been in a Small Cool entry, how would it have been received? I am guessing that the various parts of AT HAVE to make a certain number of posts every day. There has got to be SOMETHING else out there that is deserving of a spotlight.

And I have sent many things in previously, that might have been better choices. Because no one is buying the above item. And no one is going to be doing that above item. So it's not even a "DIY" for the masses.

Would someone else, besides me, send in stuff to these people? I guess they don't like what I send.

poor chair

I don't get why this was posted and my really pretty, cute kitchen that I DIYed wasn't. Maybe I should be a family member of an AT writer, too. =/

What the hell????

The Minneapple is the coolest, cleanest city. Please represent us right. This is embarrassing.

Love it. Teen worked imaginatively with what he had. Which I think it an important goal of AT.