Restoring Old Dining Room Chairs

These gorgeous chairs now have pride of place in our dining room which we recently made over you can check out the full dining room makeover here note that the photos in our dining room makeover post were taken before i refinished these chairs.

Restoring old dining room chairs.

Add a comment. Cut new fabric place your foam and seat on top of your new fabric. However you will most likely need to sand the legs and any backing of the chair by hand since the sander cannot get into any grooves and other details. With about 3 hours of work these antique chairs have been given new life.

I m such a packrat that i just can t bring myself to get rid of things sometimes even when they are broken or otherwise seem useless. It s so hard sometimes to part with things particularly furniture. How to re cover a dining room chair. Except of course when that furniture is dining room chairs and it s old and beat up and not very pretty anymore.

Add comment cancel. Even if you ve purchased a new dining room set or just new chairs for your set you may find it difficult to throw out those old chairs. Add a comment. So we set them up in our dining room scuffs and all and called it good.

Wood can almost always be restored and refinished to become something you love. Use an electric sander if you have one to make the job go by quicker. Using your sandpaper rub any marks or scuffs off the wood. Always rub with the grain of the wood.

The matching chairs need a bit more repair so they are hanging out in our basement for now until i get around to dealing with them. Begin with an old chair frame. How to restore the wood finish on a dining room table. Unless the piece is an american masterpiece of antique furniture or finished with a hand painted technique some finishes are actually lesser woods painted to look like a tiger oak or bird s eye maple for example and those techniques add value when they stay in place over time cleaning and or restoring the piece may actually do you more good than harm when it comes to value.

Well here we are more than a year later and i decided it was finally time to refinish the table. Restoring antique or worn wooden furniture will improve the aesthetic value of the piece while protecting it against future damage. Begin sanding your chair with 100 or 120 grit sandpaper to remove any old paint or varnish. Using a temporary fabric pen trace a line three inches out from the seat and cushion.

Step 1 how to restore a dining chair.