Dining Room Chairs Upholstery

My MIL gave me her dining room furniture. It's quite old probably 1930's-1940's. The set consists of table with 6 chairs, china cabinet and buffet. I have a dining room suite so DD#1 wanted the table and china cabinet.. We're recovering the dining room chairs as part of her birthday .... (shhhh she'll be 40 on Dec. 2).

First off comes the seats.



The chairs are reconditioned with Formby's Lemon Oil (love that stuff).

The seat are quite hard. Foam added to the seat will help ... to keep it in place I used painters blue tape.

Back side of seat.

She picked out upholstery fabric when Joann's had it at 50% off .... great deal.

I like to add regular cotton fabric underneath the upholstery to give it stability.

To hold it all together I use quilting basting spray, lightly.

Now that foam is a little hard so I got the idea of adding 2 layers of fleece. I scrounged around in my fleece scraps and zig zaged them together. That is know as "stashbusting".

Upholstery fabric is cut about 3" larger than the actual seat size. I did this so I'd have plenty of wrap around to accommodate the foam, 2 layers of fleece and 2 layers of cotton.

We decided to stable the cotton lining on first. This way we didn't have to worry about anything sliding or getting out of place.

Just a few stables all around to hold it in place.

I cut out the corners to reduce the bulk.

Corners are neatly folded over and stapled in place.

The upholstery fabric is stapled on, the opposing corners are stabled.. The fabric was fraying a bit so I used Fray Check only on the upholstery fabric.

The last touch was DH used a touch-up marker to fix scratches on the chairs.

The seats turned out beautifully ......

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

Seat Cushions Renewed

Finally had time to help DD#1 with her dining chairs. Six years ago they lived in a tiny 2 bedroom house (3 kids) now 5 bedrooms and a large eat in kitchen. At that time SIL surprised DD#1 with a very pretty dining set but oh my the chair cushions were butte ugly. We recoved them but after about 7000 meals the cushions were beginning to resemble #2 butte ugly seating. Last week Joann's upholstery fabric was 50% off ...... so off we went. DD#1 picked out a beautiful green velvet like fabric (photo doesn't do the fabric justice). So last night squeezing every inch out of the 2 yards DH and I recovered the chair. Man they look super new (again). AND DH got to use the nailer that was a bonus when he purchased the air compressor for Prince Charming (long arm).