A savvy shopper managed to save £3,000 by transforming an old armchair she bought in a charity shop in Wythenshawe for £20. Jessica Hilton took inspiration from designs she saw online and upcycled the chair herself using boucle material and a fabric stapler.
The 22-year-old, who designs clothes for her business, found the chair in the Tree of Life shop in Wythenshawe and she purchased it for £20. She’d had her eye on boucle armchairs online but they cost around £3,000, so she decided to recreate one for herself.
She paid another £30 for the material to cover the chair while the fabric stapler was £8. The project took her a couple of days to complete and it saved her £2,942.
