Extreme Makeover: Ikea Chair Edition

As a part of the larger "guest bedroom makeover project," we bought an Ikea Chair (found on Craig's List) that looked like this:

After a lot of pinning (seriously, a lot) and a little sewing, it now looks like this:

I wish I could share a pattern with you, so you that you could do this yourself on an Ektorp Tullsta chair, but I didn't use a pattern.  Here is what I did for the chair itself (the green fabric, not the bottom cushion or pillow):

1. Pinned the fabric directly to the chair
2. Trimmed the pieces (while still pinned to the chair) leaving an inch on all edges. 
• You can't tell in this picture, but the back and external sides are all one piece.  That was the easy part.  
• The front is many pieces - one for each arm, one for the bottom of the chair (under the cushion) and the front middle (connecting the two arms to each other), and the internal arms and the front top (meaning, the part you would lean back on if you were sitting in the chair) are all their own pieces.  This is because I wanted a more tailored look, rather than a bunch of extra fabric, which meant the pieces had to be angled and sewn together, rather than cutting one piece with straight lines.
• Anyway, one piece for the external part of the chair, and 6 for the internal.  The internal part was kind of a pain, and did not turn out perfectly.  If I had to do it again, I would make the front of the arms, the front middle, and the piece under the cushion all one piece. Oh well!
3. Pinned the pieces to each other
4. Pulled the cushion (which is now one pinned-together, inside-out piece) off the chair and sewed all the lines
5. Turned it right-side out, and voilá!

The cushion/pillow (the floral-esque pattern) were much easier. The pillow was the easiest - just three straight lines (measure the fabric twice as big as one side of the pillow, and fold in half. So one side of the "pillowcase" is a fold, and the other three are straight lines).  For the cushion, I used the same method I used for the chair itself. But there were only two pieces: one for the top, front, and bottom of the cushion, and one for the curvy internal sides (that aren't showing because they're "inside" the chair, and in fact from that picture you can't tell they're even curvy).

We spent $40 on the chair and $40ish on fabric, and the chair alone is $129 (for white like we bought, $139 for a few other basic, solid colors).  So we saved $50, and ended up with a patterned chair instead of a solid.

More pictures of the rest of the guest room makeover to come! 

Now, for a close up of the fabrics: