The dining room chairs part 1
We have four dining room chairs that don’t match. They are good chairs, charming chairs, but one is black, one wood, one green, and one gray. The gray one is the new one. I recently picked it up for $22 at an antique shop. I made the mistake of not sitting in it before I bought it so I didn’t realize that there was old, broken caning underneath the newer cushion. It was quickly discovered that if you sat on the chair it made loud cracking noises as the old caning popped and the loose wood shifted. Yikes! I don’t have much experience fixing furniture, but I decided to give it a shot. Worst case, I’m out $22 for the chair and I learn some valuable lessons.
The Plan:
- Paint the chair (maybe the same gray as the living room?)
- Remove the fabric cushion and wash it
- Remove the old caning
- Nail in the wood piece more securely
That plan quickly became obsolete in part 2….
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