The dining room chairs part 2
So, I removed the ugly green fabric. The padding underneath was disgusting. There was no way I was putting it back on the chair. I planned to wash the green fabric and put in new padding. I saved the upholstery tacks as I pulled them off. Some were bent, but most were usable.
Then I pulled out all the old caning. It was fairly easy since it was so old and dried up. I used wire cutters to snip the big pieces off, then used pliers to pull the pieces off. It was dusty, diirty, and disgusting. I scraped out as much of the old glue as I could and re-wahsed the chair.
Looking at the chair with no seat, I reformulated my plan. I decided to take the flat wood piece that previously held the fabric and padding on to the top of the seat and screw it in underneath the chair. Then fill the seat with new padding and cover the top with the fabric. I figured this would be a more classic look and provide a more comfortable seat.
Finally, I cracked open the living room paint and painted the chair. It only needed one coat of the lighter, warmer, flat gray to cover the bluer, glossy gray. The flat gray actually looked nice on the chair – different.
Here’s where this project snowballed in size: I got to thinking…. If I painted all the chairs the same color, that would really pull the set of four together. Not only that, but if I painted them a color that would coordinate with the walls, I’d be one step closer to a finished dining room. So I decided to paint all four chairs off-white and also get some new fabric to replace teh dark green on this chair. In fact, I figured that I would need to recover the seats on two of the other chairs that have fabric seats. To top it off, for some reason I decided that I wanted to make seat cushions that tie onto the chairs.
Am I nuts? Maybe, but you’ll have to read on to part 3 to find out…
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