Ways to keep a leather chair cool?

June 22, 2024 1:01 PM

I just bought a fake leather Secretlab chair without really thinking about temperature. Now I'm hearing they can get super hot... is there anything I can put on it to cool it down, or am I better off selling this one and getting a fabric one?
posted by wheatlets to Home & Garden (6 answers total)

Sheepskin. My chair is something, probably fake Naugahyde, cold to sit on in winter so I found a real sheepskin at a garage sale and figured I’d sit on it for the winter. Instead I’ve kept it year ‘round. I made small slits in the skin in the back and used stretchy ties (actually a thin sliced bicycle inner tube) to lace it together in the back. It works great in summer too.
posted by TWinbrook8 at 2:07 PM on June 22 [2 favorites]

Sheepskin would be *so comfy* but $$.
If your chair is a Titan Evo knockoff, how about a skin? But also. Not. Cheap.
Probably cheapest and easiest would be to throw an old twin bed comforter over it.
Maybe adapt a car seat cover if you're handy?
posted by BlueHorse at 3:00 PM on June 22

Response by poster: Sorry, should have been clearer - it's a real Secretlab chair but I'm pretty sure it's fake leather.
posted by wheatlets at 3:13 PM on June 22

Cab drivers use seat covers made of plastic mesh or wood beads to allow airflow when seated all day.
posted by nouvelle-personne at 7:10 PM on June 22 [1 favorite]

If you like the seat cover direction but don't like the wood bead feeling, "wire spring" is a search term for another type.
posted by away for regrooving at 11:11 PM on June 22

IKEA has a sheepskin for $40…
posted by TWinbrook8 at 7:46 AM on June 23