I’m back with an update I promised: an update on our full-size egg chair and a little report on three tiny egg chairs we recently added to our dollhouse collection.
- An update on the full-size egg chair (I initially tossed a few pillows on it but said I’d share the final details once we found a real seat).
- Three new miniature egg chairs that recently came home with us.
Let’s start with the small ones, since they arrived first. No, our living room did not become an egg-chair swap meet—these are dollhouse-sized. They’re perfect for Clara’s little crew (you can read more about Clara’s dollhouse elsewhere):
A kind reader (thanks, Nicole!) tipped me off that CB2 had these on clearance for fifty cents apiece. They’re actually Christmas ornaments, which explains the steep discount after the holidays. All I had to do was remove the hanging string and they transformed into perfectly serviceable tiny chairs for a certain small pig family. That’s how three of them ended up in my cart—a quick buy and a happy ending.
Clara loves these little chairs. They’re slightly chunkier and offer more grip than some of her other mini chairs, which makes dolls stay put instead of slipping out. It’s a simple upgrade but it made a noticeable difference in her playroom setup.
Now for the real, human-sized egg chair tucked into the corner of our living room. You might remember when we found it at a local thrift store and brought it home looking rather rough and very unloved. I painted it and, during the “for now” phase, just tossed a few pillows on top to make it usable.
We’ve finally reached the “ta-da, it’s finished” phase thanks to an inexpensive and easy update: a proper seat cushion. I had considered ordering foam and fabric to make a custom pad, but we ended up finding an affordable cushion on sale. It was $14 at Pier 1 in a soft blue that reads as a neutral in our home—this shade appears throughout our rooms in art, pillows, and curtains. The cushion’s rounded shape made me unsure it would fit our egg chair, but I bought it anyway and hoped for the best. At first, it didn’t fit at all.
It looked wrong when placed the usual way—so I turned it around. By rotating the cushion so the rounded part faced forward instead of back, it settled into the chair much better and the fit suddenly made sense. I removed the ties and the tag that screamed “this is the back” and didn’t look back. It ended up looking almost custom-made for the chair because of its unusual shape and how naturally it lay on the seat.
From there it was just a matter of playing with back pillows until I found the right combination. I tried a blue-and-white back pillow I picked up at HomeGoods, a faux-fur pillow I bought at Target last year, and a whimsical bunny pillow that joined the mix a few months ago. Eventually I settled on a playful rhino-meets-pig pairing—one of the pillows is a vintage find from a local shop. Together they balanced the chair’s shape and softened the look while keeping things fun and casual.
So that’s the quick story: a thrift-store egg chair, a budget cushion that worked after a little repositioning, and a handful of pillows to finish it off. Plus, a tiny bonus update on three dollhouse egg chairs rescued from the after-Christmas clearance rack.
Anyone else experimenting with cushions—either buying them or flipping them around to see if they work better backwards? Or decorating a dollhouse right now? I’d love to hear what solutions you’ve found for oddly shaped chairs or small-scale furniture upgrades.