Are you looking for a way to spruce up your dining/eating area on the cheap? Cheap does not have to equal ugly. Take what you have and follow these directions. Or, add a ton of interest to the equation by adding mismatched chairs.
Revive your chairs with a coat of paint and reupholstered seat
cushions. Mix styles (look at yard sales, thrift store or find some on eBay), then pull
together the different looks with coordinating fabric.
How-to:
Remove the seat cushion. Prime the chair frame,
then spray-paint with Krylon, moving the can in an even, back-and-forth
motion; let dry. To cover the seat: Remove screws from base. Measure
and cut fabric, allowing an extra 2 inches all around. Center fabric on
seat, aligning pattern. With a staple gun, secure the center of each
side, pulling fabric taut; continue around base. Trim excess fabric.
Replace seat and screws.
Tips
- Krylon's H²0 line is making aerosol more eco-friendly: The
paint is water-based acrylic latex, has low odor, and cleans up with
soap and water.
Karla is the Managing Editor of Blissfully Domestic. She blogs daily about life with 4 kids at Looking Towards Heaven
[courtesy of Country Living; photo source]
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I loe spray paint and have used it just this way – to pull different styles of chairs together. Cheap and easy. I even pulled my old, ugly stove hood down and spray painted it.
i'm a spray paint girl myself! love that stuff. great post.
This is a great idea!