I finally recovered my kitchen chairs. I've had this dining set for about 11 years (2 years BC---before children) and I now know that you should never have cloth covered chairs with little ones in the house. Didn't take me long to figure that one out. They've definitely been through it all.
Here's a before picture. You can't tell now, but the material used to be a really pretty green and white plaid. The rips on the side of the seat are from the booster seat straps the kids used when they outgrew the high chair. This isn't the worst one either. I'm a little embarrassed to post these because of how yucky the chairs are.
Here's another before shot. GROSS! I can't believe I'm putting this on here.
Ahhhh . . . so much better! I'm thinking I might get some plastic to cover this material to protect it so it will last longer. A while back I covered a chair with a plastic table cloth just to see how it would hold up. It didn't. The table cloth wasn't very durable and it didn't help having little fingers poking holes or tearing it either. I have enough material left over that I might go really crazy and make a matching table runner. Watch out! Miranda with a sewing machine! ;o)
Here's a before picture. You can't tell now, but the material used to be a really pretty green and white plaid. The rips on the side of the seat are from the booster seat straps the kids used when they outgrew the high chair. This isn't the worst one either. I'm a little embarrassed to post these because of how yucky the chairs are.
Here's another before shot. GROSS! I can't believe I'm putting this on here.
Ahhhh . . . so much better! I'm thinking I might get some plastic to cover this material to protect it so it will last longer. A while back I covered a chair with a plastic table cloth just to see how it would hold up. It didn't. The table cloth wasn't very durable and it didn't help having little fingers poking holes or tearing it either. I have enough material left over that I might go really crazy and make a matching table runner. Watch out! Miranda with a sewing machine! ;o)
3 comments:
Your chairs look really good. I know what you mean about the cloth seat covers. The set we bought has them too. I was so tired of scrubbing them so I got some heavy duty clear plastic from the fabric store and covered them. All but one are holding up great. I think someone got the scissors to the one and once there's a hole....well you know what kids do.
I need to cover my chairs with plastic too. Yours look great.
i totally missed this somehow. your chairs look great. i didn't know you had redone them. Sorry. shows how much i paid attention. you did a good job on them. hopefully these will last awhile. love you & ttyl.
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