Sunday 24 February 2013

Kitchen chairs - new life

We're not sure quite how the upholstered seats on our kitchen chairs had become so disgusting.  It's not as if we make a practice of sitting in muddy pools outside in preparation for using them, but Liz pointed out yesterday that it did look as if we had.  So off she went to Abakhan at Greenfield and back she came with some lovely large check material.

This afternoon the job snuck in front of the hundreds actually on the list and we shared the removing of hundreds of staples, the cutting of the material and the re-stapling.  There are eight chairs, so it did take a while. It also uses a lot of staples, but fortunately I received some recently (along with many upholstery tools - thanks, Graham) as part of father-in-law's stock clearance. Maybe we should now use the kind of covers the garage puts on the car seats at service time?




6 comments:

  1. No sitting down on these ever again! They look fab. Half way through the job I did begin to lose the will to live but now I am chuffed as monkeys.

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  2. There were LOTS of staples to prise out, and LOTS to put back, and 8 chairs is a fair-sized set. But all good now!

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  3. They look very smart - and immaculate. I'm not surprised you don't really want to use them now!

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    1. Thank you - no doubt we'll soon break them in as we don't do 'immaculate' for long.

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  4. They look good! (I tried redoing chairs once. They were ok for a few weeks. Then they sagged in the middle.)

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    1. Thanks - these were easier than yours, I guess, as they are quite a modern design with a plywood base under the layers of upholstery.

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