Sunday, October 3, 2010

Recovered Kitchen Chairs

I have never liked the  fabric on my kitchen chairs so I decided to change it.

Recovering these seats was incredibly easy, fast, and inexpensive.

My chair before:

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I removed the seat.  It was held in place by screws so I just had to loosen the screws and it popped off.

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Once the seat was off,  I put the new fabric right on top of the old since the old fabric wasn’t dirty or in terrible shape.  It was just blah.

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I simply stapled it on, pulling it tight.

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The best tool for this is an electric staple gun.   I heart mine. 

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I am not particularly neat, on the bottom.  I just staple, staple, staple.   Puckers on the bottom don’t matter like they do on the top.

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When the seat was covered, I screwed it back on to the chair.

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Wa-La!    Completely different look.

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This project cost about six dollars for fabric for all four chairs  and  took less than two hours.   

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I didn’t mention I was doing this but my husband noticed the change right away when he came home and thought they looked great. 

4 comments:

Far Side of Fifty said...

They do look great..that was easy! Now you can change them again..when ever the mood strikes you! I heart my staple gun too! :)

Missy said...

I love then Mary!!

Great Job!!

Anonymous said...

really nice you right that fabric is better. love mom

Toyin O. said...

They look really nice; great job!

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