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You ship us the skis, we build them into a compact Alpine chair and stain the frame in the color you pick. 36 inches tall, 30 deep, 25 wide with the binding cup holders. Those are your skis, the ones you could not bring yourself to throw out.
Mail us the clubs and we will build them into an Adirondack rocker with a putting green cup holder in the arm. One chair takes a full set, eleven or twelve clubs. If you do not have clubs to send, we have plenty of our own waiting for a second career.
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.
Ship us the skis in your garage and we will build them into a bench. The pairs you learned on, the pairs from the trip nobody shuts up about, the pair a parent left behind. If you do not have skis to send, we have plenty and can match a color story instead.
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.
Two chairs, because nobody wants to watch the sunset alone. A matched set of Adirondack chairs built from eight to ten pairs of your own retired skis, on Douglas Fir bases with ski binding cup holders. Ship your skis to us or drop them at our Manitou Springs shop and we take it from there.
Everybody has the pair they cannot throw out. They are in the garage rafters, or behind the water heater, or leaning in the corner of a basement in a house nobody lives in anymore. Too worn to ride, too loaded to bin. Send them to us and they come back as something you sit in.
This is the thing Colorado Ski Chairs is best known for, and the thing we are proudest of. One honest detail first, because it catches almost everybody out: a single chair takes four to five pairs of skis. Hardly anyone has five pairs in the garage, so the normal thing is to send us the pair or two that actually mean something and let us make up the rest from our own stock of vintage and retro skis. Yours go where you will see them. Ship them to us, drop them off, or we collect anywhere in Colorado. We build by hand in Manitou Springs, you pick the stain color and the details, and what comes back is a piece of furniture nobody else on earth has.
Ship them, drop them off, or we collect anywhere in Colorado. Free shipping on the Alpine version.
Two chairs need eight to ten pairs of skis between them, so a set almost always blends yours with ours.
Snowboards, hockey sticks and golf clubs all work. A snowboard chair takes at least three boards.
The Sentimental Ski Chair is the original and still the most ordered thing on this page. The newer Sentimental Alpine Ski Chair is a more compact indoor and outdoor design, comfortable for anyone up to about six foot six, and it ships free when you send us your own skis.
Plenty of families order a matched set of two chairs so one stays and one goes to a sibling or a kid. Two chairs take eight to ten pairs of skis between them, which is more than almost anyone has, so we build yours into the places you look at and match the rest from our own stock. If you would rather have seating for two in one piece, there is the Sentimental Ski Bench.
The Sentimental Hockey Stick Chair is built from old sticks, and we can paint the arms with a number or initials, which is usually the detail that gets the reaction. The Sentimental Golf Club Chair does the same with retired irons and woods. A hockey stick chair takes twelve to fifteen sticks. A golf club chair takes one full set, so eleven or twelve clubs. Both need more gear than people expect, the same way the ski chairs do, and we fill in the blanks from our own stock when there is not enough. Send photos of what you have and we will tell you exactly where you stand before you ship anything.
This happens more than you would think. Somebody sold the skis years ago, or a parent cleared out the garage, or there is exactly one ski left in the shed. We keep a stock of vintage and retro skis and can match close to what was owned: the same brand, the same era, the right colors. If you have even one pair we build it in where you will see it every day, then fill in the blanks around it and match the colors of your skis so the finished piece reads as one thing rather than a patchwork. Not every ski in the chair is original, and we will always tell you which ones are, but it is honest and it works.
Four to five pairs for a single chair. 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 thing is to send the pair or two that actually mean something and let us match the rest from our own stock of vintage and retro skis. Yours go in the places you look at.
That is usually fine, and often better. Wear, old graphics and faded topsheets are the whole point. Send photos if you are unsure and we will tell you honestly before you ship anything.
We can match something close from our own stock of vintage and retro skis: similar brand, era and colors. Tell us what they were and we will get as near as we can.
Yes to all three, and we have built from wakeboards and water skis too. The same rule about quantity applies, and the numbers are worth knowing before you start collecting. A snowboard chair needs at least three boards. A hockey stick chair takes twelve to fifteen sticks. A golf club chair takes one full set, so eleven or twelve clubs. Send us photos of what you have and we will tell you honestly whether it is enough or whether we fill in the blanks with ours.
Longer than a standard build, because we work around your gear rather than ours. Allow more than the usual two to four weeks and talk to us early if it is for a specific date.
Yes. Hand painted names, dates, home mountains, numbers and initials are all normal, and they are usually the detail people react to most.
There are really only four honest options. If they are still safe to ride, donate them to a ski swap or a youth program. If they are not, recycling is harder than it sounds, because a ski is fiberglass and wood laminated around steel edges and most centers will not take them. You can hang them in the garage for another decade, which is what most people do. Or you can have them built into something you use, which is what happens here. Ship them, drop them off, or we will collect them anywhere in Colorado.
The ski itself is usually fine. The bindings are the problem. Shop technicians work from an indemnified list, and once a binding falls off that list no reputable shop will test or adjust it, which means it cannot be safely set for your weight and boot. That is the moment most people realize the pair is done as equipment, and it is usually the moment they call us.
Honestly, on resale, almost nothing. A pair from the nineties or the two thousands might bring twenty or forty dollars at a swap, if anyone bids. Genuinely old wooden skis from before the sixties can be worth more to a collector. That is not really the question people are asking, though. The pair in your garage is worth keeping because of where you were standing when you bought it, and that value does not show up on a resale site.
Yes. Ski swaps take rideable pairs, bars and restaurants take them for decor, theaters take them for props, and we take them and build them into chairs, benches, wall art and coat hooks. If you are in Colorado we will come and get them. If you are not, tell us what you have and we will tell you honestly whether it is worth the shipping.
Not sure you have enough, or working to a date? Call 303.775.7273 and describe what you have. If you want the look without sending anything, see Adirondack Ski Chairs or Gift Items.
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