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One moose, standing in the mist with the ridgeline going soft behind him. It is a single Adirondack ski chair, built in Colorado from retired skis on a Douglas Fir base and hand painted in exterior oils. Quiet enough for a front porch, tough enough for the driveway.
A full moon hanging over a silver and blue mountain range, painted by hand across the chairback. One Adirondack ski chair, built in Colorado from four to five pairs of retired skis on a Douglas Fir base. Quiet colors, serious construction.
Gold, rust and deep amber layered into the same misty ridgelines, the way the high country looks the last week of September. A single Adirondack chair, hand painted in exterior oils and built in Colorado from retired skis on a Douglas Fir base. Aspen season, minus the traffic on the pass.
Snow covered peaks stacked back into a pale winter sky, painted soft at the edges so the range seems to keep going past the chair. A hybrid Adirondack chair built from retired skis and snowboards on a sturdy Douglas Fir base. It is a January morning you can leave outside all year.
Layered peaks under a summer sunset, oranges and pinks bleeding into each other the way the sky does around eight o’clock in July. It is a hybrid Adirondack chair built from retired skis and snowboards on a Douglas Fir base, hand painted in exterior oils so the color holds up outdoors. Comes with the ski binding cup holder, of course.
Layered peaks under a July sunset, oranges and pinks bleeding into each other the way the sky does around eight o’clock, with sunflowers painted across the base of the seat back. An Adirondack chair built from retired skis on a Douglas Fir base, hand painted in exterior oils.
Peach and amber sunset light pours down the ridgeline on this one, the color you get about ten minutes after the lifts stop spinning. It is a full Adirondack rocker built in Colorado from four to five pairs of retired skis on a Douglas Fir base, with runners cut from repurposed oak wine barrel slats. Hand painted in high quality exterior oil, so the sunset survives an actual winter.
Pikes Peak with the Manitou Incline running straight up the shoulder of it, which happens to be the view out our shop door. The Incline is 2,744 steps. This chair is zero steps, and we consider that an improvement. Hand painted in Colorado on an Adirondack chair built from retired skis and a Douglas Fir base.
These Vintage Ski Chairs are made with Classic Skis that mostly come from the 60’s, 70’s & 80’s! Enjoy the wonderful patina on these unpainted chairs. It’s no mystery why this vintage take on our design is a top seller.
You can request specific colors, brands or era of skis as well. Â Some additional up-charge may apply for more expensive or rare skis in some cases. Â Most of them we can get or have in stock though so let us know what ones are most important to you! Â We want you to LOVE your ski chair!
Jimi in full retro poster color, hand painted onto a chair built from repurposed water skis instead of the usual downhill pair. It is a full size Adirondack on a sturdy Douglas Fir base, made in Colorado and finished in weatherproof exterior oils. Pick any artist you want, we have been asked for stranger things and said yes.
A bull elk standing in silhouette while the sun drops behind a Rocky Mountain ridge, hand painted in exterior oils across the seat back. One Adirondack ski chair, built in Colorado from four to five pairs of retired skis on a Douglas Fir base. If you have ever heard one bugle at dusk, you already understand this chair.
A full moon, a treeline, and one very large Sasquatch caught mid stride in front of it. The mural is hand painted in exterior oils on a hybrid chair built in Colorado from retired snow gear over a Douglas Fir base. Proof is hard to come by, but the paint is weatherproof.
Send us the sticks and we build the chair. A hockey stick chair takes twelve to fifteen sticks, which surprises nearly everyone, so if you are short we fill in from our own stock and put yours where you look. Redwood and Douglas fir frame, 45 inches tall by 36 deep and 32 wide, hand painted in oils. Names and numbers on the arms are standard.
Those skis hanging in the garage rafters gave you a couple of decades, and they deserve better than a landfill. We take four to five pairs of your own retired skis and rebuild them into a classic Adirondack chair on a Douglas Fir base, ski binding cup holder included. Drop them off in Manitou Springs or ship them to us, and we handle everything after that.
Pick the crest, branch insignia or unit patch, pick the stain and ski colors, and we paint it across a matched pair of Adirondack ski chairs. The set pictured carries the Special Forces crest on a black base alongside a second insignia on green, both built from retired skis.
Everybody has a pair of skis they cannot quite bring themselves to throw out. They ride two hundred days, they get retired to the garage rafters, and then they sit up there for a decade feeling vaguely guilty. A ski chair is what happens when you stop feeling guilty about it.
Colorado Ski Chairs has been building Adirondack ski chairs by hand in Manitou Springs, Colorado since 2007. Every chair starts with real skis or snowboards, retired off a mountain rather than manufactured for a furniture catalog, set into a solid wood frame built to sit outside through a Colorado winter and come out the other side just fine. No two chairs are identical, because no two sets of skis ever are.
Ski colors and brands, stain color on the base, and whether you want a rocker or a chair that stays put.
Mountain ranges, sunsets, bears, moose, state flags. Painted in exterior oils by hand, never a decal.
The pair you could never part with, built into a chair alongside ours. One chair takes four to five pairs.
The Alpine is the core shape. It comes as a standard chair, a Tall Alpine Compact for smaller decks, a Tall Alpine Hybrid with a higher back, and as a rocker like the Aspen Sunset Alpine or the Blue Colorado Flag Alpine Rocker. If you are not sure, the rocker is the one people keep sitting in.
Colorado flag chairs are the signature, in blue or grey, including the Colorado Flag Chair with a customizable base. Beyond that there are mountain stripes, sunsets, bear and moose murals, and plain stained versions like the Blue and Grey Stained Ski Chairs where you pick the ski colors and let the original ski graphics do the talking.
The Mystery Ski Chair exists for people who want us to surprise them. It is the cheapest way into the range and it has produced some of our favorite pieces. No returns, which is rather the point.
The Sentimental Alpine Ski Chair is the one that gets people. Ship us your old skis, drop them off, or we will pick them up anywhere in Colorado, and they come back as something you can actually sit in. A first season pass, a pair you swore you would never sell, gear that belonged to someone who is not here to ski on it anymore. It is the most requested thing we build and the one we are proudest of. See Sentimental for the full range.
Restaurants, breweries, resorts and offices order these in matched sets with a logo and brand colors. The Branded Alpine Ski Chair is painted in your brand color, and the Custom Logo Ski Chair takes it further. Military crests, ski patrol crosses and team colors are all routine. For larger commercial orders see Branded and Office Solutions.
This is the one place we do not use a paintbrush. A logo has to be exact, so it goes on as a decal rather than hand painted artwork, which keeps the trademark right down to the kerning and the corporate color. Aluminum appliques are available if you want the logo to catch the light and read as hardware rather than print, and plastic appliques are an option too. Any of the three can go on the front of the back rest or on the reverse, so the mark faces the room rather than the wall. The three finishes price differently and it depends on the size of the mark and how many chairs you are ordering, so call 303.775.7273 and we will price it properly instead of guessing.
Yes. Every chair is built from genuine retired skis or snowboards, not lookalike panels. That is why the graphics, the wear and the colors vary from chair to chair.
Yes, that is the Sentimental Ski Chair. Ship them, drop them off, or we will collect them anywhere in Colorado. If the original pair is long gone we can match something close to what you used to own.
Yes. Chairs sit on solid wood frames and are painted in exterior oils, so they handle sun, snow and rain. There is a three year warranty on everything we make.
Both are available on most designs, along with low and medium rocker heights. The rocker is more popular for porches and fire pits, the standing base for dining areas and tighter spaces.
Nearly every chair is made to order, usually two to four weeks. Some are ready to ship. Local delivery covers Colorado Springs, Denver, Breckenridge, Vail, Aspen and most of the state, and we ship nationwide to the lower 48.
The angle. A deep pitched seat, a tall slanted back, and arms wide enough for a drink and a paperback. Thomas Lee drew the first one in 1903 for a sloping lawn in Westport, New York, and nobody has meaningfully improved on it since. It is the rare outdoor chair that is comfortable with no cushion at all. Ours keeps that shape exactly and builds it from retired skis and snowboards on a solid wood frame, so you get a 120 year old design made from gear that already had a life.
Four to five pairs for a single chair, and eight to ten pairs for a matched set of two. That surprises nearly everyone, because a finished chair looks like it should be one pair. Very few people have five pairs sitting in the garage, so the normal arrangement is that you send the pair that actually means something and we fill in the rest from our own stock of vintage and retro skis, matched to your colors. Yours go in the places you look at.
Costco and the other big box stores sell molded resin and pressure treated versions, and for a rental patio they are perfectly sensible. It is a different product. Every chair here is built one at a time in Manitou Springs from real retired skis on a solid wood frame, hand painted in exterior oils, with a three year warranty. If you need four identical chairs by Saturday, buy the resin ones. If you want the chair your guests ask about, call 303.775.7273.
It depends entirely on the chair. A resin one gets you a few seasons and nobody ever mentions it. A well built wooden one outlives the patio furniture around it and gets used every day. The only honest test is whether you actually sit in it, and ours tend to become the chair people quietly race each other to when the fire gets lit.
The one with the right seat angle and a back tall enough to rest your head against. Ours come as rockers, in low and medium rocker heights, or on a standing base, and the ottoman is worth adding if you are the sort who stays out until the fire burns down. One honest note: a properly reclined Adirondack is wonderful to sit in and takes a moment to get out of. That has been the trade since 1903.
Originally, yes. The first one was built for a sloping lawn in the Adirondack mountains, which is why the back leans so far and the front of the seat sits high. On flat ground it still works, it simply reclines more than a dining chair, which is rather the point. On a deck, a porch, or a lawn with a bit of pitch, it sits exactly the way it was drawn.
Parks Canada placed pairs of red chairs at scenic points in the national parks as an invitation to stop and look at the view, and they became a small symbol for exactly that. People have been buying them in pairs ever since. We paint sets in any color, red included, and on a set the mural is painted across both chairs as one design rather than repeated twice.
A plain cedar or pine chair from a plan runs roughly seventy five to a hundred and fifty dollars in lumber, plus a weekend and a few tools. A ski chair is a different exercise. You need four to five pairs of retired skis, and ski laminate is fiberglass over steel edges, which dulls blades fast and splinters if you rush it. It is absolutely doable. Most people call us at 303.775.7273 somewhere around the second ski.
Mostly the border. Muskoka is the Canadian name, after the cottage country north of Toronto. Adirondack is the American name, after the mountains in New York. Canadian versions often have a rounded back and the American ones a squared or fanned back. What we build is the American shape, with skis on it.
Need seating for two? See Benches. Want something considerably larger? The Huge XXL Chairs are six to eight feet tall. For the chairlift versions see Ski Lifts. Or call 303.775.7273 and describe what you are after.
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