Restoring Dining Room Chairs

Easily refinish a dated or worn dining room table to give it a fresh look.

Restoring dining room chairs.

But in order to actually fix the problem with these chairs i needed to completely strip the chair seat down to the wooden frame. Check your chairs to see if you need any more than two coats but i found that my chairs were covered perfectly with two coats. Normally when i re cover dining chairs i just stretch the new fabric over the old fabric as long as the old fabric is in decent shape and staple it on. The mortice and tenon joinery had to be dismantled old glue scraped away ne.

With about 3 hours of work these antique chairs have been given new life. How to refinish a dining room table. How to restore the wood finish on a dining room table. Well here we are more than a year later and i decided it was finally time to refinish the table.

For your finish you will for sure want a water based finish so that it won t discolor your chairs. In this video i show you how i repair and restore 6x solid beech dining chairs. The shape of these chairs is great for this space because they are low profile which makes the natural light more accessible visually. So we set them up in our dining room scuffs and all and called it good.

They are smaller scale which is nice in a small dining room which this one is to keep things in proportion. I ll tell you a secret. 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. Unless you absolutely love a certain chair don t go for something that will cost more to refurbish than buying new or that will require more time and effort than you re willing to put into the piece.

Let the paint sit on the dining chairs for at least a day before you apply your poly finish. This is the before photo of the dining chairs at the dining table. When searching for a chair to refurbish look for something that is sturdy and well built. 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.

How to re cover an upholstered chair.