Kitchen Chair Makeover
- By Joan
- October 31, 2018
- 3 Comments
When my brother-in-law moved out of his apartment a couple months ago he needed to get rid of a few pieces of furniture. When he asked if I wanted a set of chairs, I immediately said no. Chairs take a long time, chairs have a lot of nooks and crannies, I already have tons of chairs.
So why are these four chairs sitting in my kitchen? The same week bro-in-law was getting rid of his green and plaid chairs, my son’s girlfriend was asking if I knew where she could get a set of chairs for her new apartment. Why yes, yes I do.
As long as they’d do all the work, life was good.
The chairs were a little ripped and a little dirty, but sturdy.
Start by taking off the bottom dust cover with a stapler remover. If you don’t have a stapler remover, a flat head screwdriver works almost as well. If the dust cover is in good shape it can be reused. It doesn’t have to be perfect, It’s just hiding all the rough edges of the fabric.
Remove all the staples and take off the old fabric seat.
The cushion was a little hard and doing nothing for my tushy so we decided to add another layer of one inch foam. Normally I would use a full sheet of foam but I’m trying to use up some old leftovers.
I’m cutting it a little smaller than the original foam so as not to add any more bulk in the front corners and I still wanted to use the soft sloped edge of the old foam.
Use spray adhesive to attach the layers of foam to the wood seat. The yellow foam edges will pull down with the fabric seat cover.
Time to attach the new seat cover. Cut your fabric large enough to be able to fold around the seat with a couple inches to spare.
Start stapling from the center, alternating sides and pulling tight as you go.
This is my kind of project, getting son and girlfriend to paint the chairs while binge watching The Office. They are using some leftover semi-gloss interior trim paint. In order to get the paint to adhere better, they attacked the green finish with the sander first. The chairs still needed 2+ coats of paint.
Fresh and clean, and I must say, one of my easier projects. 🙂
There was not enough leftover fabric to create a whole pillow, but just enough for a couple of squares.
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Love the chairs!!! They look fabulous and I like the way the “earned” the chairs! Having someone else do all the work is the best way *grin*. I recovered my daughter’s two dining room chairs when I was in Florida using fabric I made by sewing together selvage edges of my black and white fabric with a little hot pink thrown in the mix. It was fun and easy because I didn’t have to remove the fake leather that was there – the cat had put tiny holes in it with his claws! She loved it when she got home and 7 years later (after moving from Florida to Washington to Hawaii to Georgia) she is still using them.
They look gorgeous….did you know you were such a good teacher? Think how many times they both will share what they learned, how cool is that!
Cute!!!!