Our dining room chairs have been in sad shape for a while. They're 21 years old, the padding was not so padded anymore, and the fabric was wearing thin.
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| Sadly in need of a refresh. |
We found a nice
YouTube video showing how to properly recover a chair.
We found some upholstery fabric, 2" foam for padding, and batting. Then we got started.
- We cut the foam to the size of the seats.
- We cut the batting to just slightly bigger than the size of the foam.
- I cut the new fabric using the a piece of the old fabric as a pattern.
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| Removing the old cushion cover and padding. |
There were a lot of staples.
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| The new cover. |
The results are well worth the couple of hours of work. When we sat down to dinner tonight, Chris commented that we should have done this years ago. It's amazing what a difference fresh padding makes. And the chairs look so much better!
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| Viola! |
