A comfy chair
By Judy Evans
@JudyEv (362267)
Rockingham, Australia
July 15, 2025 7:59pm CST
I thought you might like to see the home-made chair which we saw in the Cunderdin Museum.
The framework is made from whatever pieces of timber was available but the seat is a car-seat from a car. Well, where else would a car-seat be from? 
Home-made chairs were common among the settlers but the seat part might be concocted from hessian or strong material.
Home-made chairs were common among the settlers but the seat part might be concocted from hessian or strong material.17 people like this
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It's not very pretty.
@DaddyEvil (158682)
• United States
16 Jul
Mom inherited some furniture from her parents when she bought our farm from them when she married dad... Some of it was antique but there were several chairs just like that one. I don't know who made them but they were made from smoothed tree limbs and the seat was made from twine from hay bales with a cushion laid over the twine. I remember dad repairing one of the chairs one evening while we were watching television.
I do know dad made several chairs from old metal tractor seats that we used outside. They weren't comfortable but we put grass on the seat and that made them comfortable enough for kids.
You found a lot of treasures in that museum! 
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@DaddyEvil (158682)
• United States
16 Jul
@JudyEv Yes! Very similar to the chairs dad had on the farm!
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@JudyEv (362267)
• Rockingham, Australia
16 Jul
@DaddyEvil It's a plough disc on the bottom but you would have known that.
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@Traceyjayne (4861)
• United Kingdom
16 Jul
Knowing me I would sit on the edge and end up on the floor….it doesn’t look very safe or comfy to me…would be better without the cushion ….or at least that fit ….lol
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@Traceyjayne (4861)
• United Kingdom
16 Jul
@JudyEv oh yes, I think it’s a very clever idea. I would use it ….just not with a badly fitting cushion.
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@Beestring (15778)
• Hong Kong
16 Jul
Honestly, it doesn't look comfortable to me.
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@Ineeddentures (13313)
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16 Jul
Well the settlers wouldn't have had car seats available,
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@JudyEv (362267)
• Rockingham, Australia
16 Jul
@Ineeddentures Maybe I should have said 'the seat part WOULD HAVE BEEN concocted from hessian or strong material.'
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@Ineeddentures (13313)
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16 Jul
@JudyEv
The settlers wouldn't have had cars.
Never mind car seats
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@GardenGerty (165630)
• United States
16 Jul
Quite a bit of ingenuity. I would probably do something like that.
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@Fishmomma (11590)
• United States
16 Jul
We had chairs like these when I was a young kid. I was happy to sit on it than the ground. We had several items that other members would have wanted something else including our outhouse, well at the bottom of the hill, No electricity or running water in the house.
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@snowy22315 (195430)
• United States
16 Jul
Doesn't look like a comfy chair to me 
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@Orson_Kart (7710)
• United Kingdom
17 Jul
That’s what I would call a rustic chair. I’m sure Tom Hanks made a similar one in Cast Away. It’s marginally better than sitting on the floor, but no good for people like me, who enjoy the occasional snooze when the eyelids are getting too heavy. I need somewhere to rest my head. 
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@JudyEv (362267)
• Rockingham, Australia
18 Jul
I understand. The back rest doesn't look the best and certainly not for snoozing.
@1creekgirl (44083)
• United States
24 Jul
That is so cool! People were much more inventive years ago.
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@BACONSTRIPSXXX (15796)
• Torrington, Connecticut
16 Jul
That doesn't look too comfortable for the back lol
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