Industrial Stool make-over

I could've sworn I took a good before photo and this one's quite the dramatic make-over...

but I cannot for the life of me find it 

so here's what I have....

There it is lurking in the background behind my son with paint on his nose...Now THAT'S an honest photo of what it's like around here :)

So my husband took her all apart and actually sand blasted the base.  

I used Formby's to strip the back and metal bracket....

There's the bracket all striped down...but you can't leave the metal it has to be sealed so right before I sprayed on a clear poly to protect it I wiped it down with lacquer thinner.  You can also use wax and grease remover which I talked about way back when we refinished the metal lockers...you can see that post here...

And we originally bought the purple stool because we wanted the seat for a set we have.  One of ours had this busted seat...so we swapped the seats out so our 2 would match.

You can see the pencil line on the top right corner where my husband cut it off with the jigsaw.  To make the seat symmetrical I traced (onto paper) the good half of the seat then flipped it over and traced that on the broken side.

My husband re-drilled the holes for the bolts and I used some of this spray adhesive....

to attach a piece of 2" thick foam (this came from Hobby Lobby and was pretty inexpensive)

I used a razor blade to trim off the top edge/corner of the foam since we were going to upholster it with this leather seat I sewed up...trimming that off helped the leather pull around the seat better and lay smoother.

We stained and waxed the back and put it back on and got the seat all upholstered up...so now she looks like this...

 Metal, wood and leather...all my favorite things!!!

 Love leather...and this was the end of some I've had for awhile...

 Very masculine...but waaaaay better than the purple...

 The seat adjusts up and down with 4 bolts...

 Nice lines and details...

 These photos were taken on a nice sunny day...it's dreary and snowy today...

 Very happy with how it all turned out...

Linking this too....