QuietDom
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Being in the unenviable position of having to abso-frickin'-lutely everything on a budget more appropriate to running a lemonade stand on a cardboard box, I can tell you how I'd approach the problem.
1) Haunt antique stores... not posh, upscale antique stores, but junky places run out of some guy's garage. Try flea markets and thrift stores, too. Eventually, you should be able to locate an ornate, carved armchair, in utterly atrocious condition, for a small sum. Haggle even lower, if possible. Some old church furniture fits the description nicely.
2) Learn how to restore furniture, and prepare to put ten or more hours of hard labour into the chair, completely stripping the old finish, patching up wear and damage, and refinishing it. If it needs upholstering, you can probably find sufficiently sized pieces of upholstery fabric for one chair at significant reductions in the "Ends and Remnants" section of your local fabric store.
3) Accent in gold, to your taste. The best effect comes from gold leaf (use imitiation, obviously -- it doesn't behave as nicely as the real thing, but the savings are appreciable) but you can also get a muted-but-satisfying effect with many types of gold paint. You might also need to paint the chair outright, if it's truly beyond refinishing, but try to avoid that, since paint ruins the effect of carved elements.
4) Sit in your completed chair and then (this would be my practice) grind your teeth in irritation at not having a sub so skilled and capable that you could just delegate the whole thing, and not have to lift a finger yourself. Renew ambitious personal vow to find such a sub.
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