Restoring Old Dining Room Chairs

With about 3 hours of work these antique chairs have been given new life.

Restoring old dining room chairs.

This expert advice will help you understand the options when res. Add a comment. It s so hard sometimes to part with things particularly furniture. Step 1 how to restore a dining chair.

For frames in good condition continue to step 5. Begin with an old chair frame. Begin sanding your chair with 100 or 120 grit sandpaper to remove any old paint or varnish. 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 restore the wood finish on a dining room table. How to re cover a dining room chair. 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. Well here we are more than a year later and i decided it was finally time to refinish the table.

But there s great news and that is this fact. Add a comment. Even if you ve purchased a new dining room set or just new chairs for your set you may find it difficult to throw out those old chairs. Using your sandpaper rub any marks or scuffs off the wood.

Using a temporary fabric pen trace a line three inches out from the seat and cushion. Always rub with the grain of the wood. I m such a packrat that i just can t bring myself to get rid of things sometimes even when they are broken or otherwise seem useless. Cut new fabric place your foam and seat on top of your new fabric.

So we set them up in our dining room scuffs and all and called it good. Use an electric sander if you have one to make the job go by quicker. Unless the piece is an american masterpiece of antique furniture or finished with a hand painted technique some finishes are actually lesser woods painted to look like a tiger oak or bird s eye maple for example and those techniques add value when they stay in place over time cleaning and or restoring the piece may actually do you more good than harm when it comes to value. Add comment cancel.

However you will most likely need to sand the legs and any backing of the chair by hand since the sander cannot get into any grooves and other details.