An old Glasgow Subway seat has been given a new life as a unique piece of furniture thanks to a DIY upcycling project. Matt McCallum, a 30-year-old architect, purchased the 1977 Subway seat from Facebook Marketplace after the trains were retired. He combined the vintage seat with a mid-century wood-framed bench, creating a stunning statement piece for his living room.
Matt McCallum, 30, says he "jumped at the chance" to own a piece of the well-loved 1977 Subway stock after the trains were pulled from service in June 2024. After coming across the seat on Facebook Marketplace, the architect says he toyed with turning the seat into a dining bench or booth, before seeing a piece of IKEA furniture that would suit the Subway seat perfectly
As reported by Glasgow Live, the seat - which is now placed in Matt’s Merchant City living room - sat under a window in the spare room while he waited patiently for an example of the mid-century wood-framed bench to come up second-hand. Matt, who borrowed his mum’s carpet cleaner to get fifty years of underground grime out of the seat, said the chair is his most complex interior design project yet.
“Occasionally after picking it up I’d find a bit of black soot on my hands. I had never really appreciated this, but you can see how the seats fix into the Subway and that the seat covers come off, so you could take it off and replace or clean it."
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