This time I had a different plan of attack. Instead of doing one chair, start to finish, at a time, I did one step on the remaining three chairs at a time.
Here's the before and after...
I bought this dining set about 3 years ago. It is beautiful and I've used it to sit and have dinner with company a total of about 5 times. However, they were FILTHY! All the cushions looked like they have been spilled, spit, and sh%& on. Granted they were off-white; Very pretty, but off-white. So I needed to do something.
Here are my trusty tools. I spent last Saturday asking everyone I could think of if they owned a staple gun. No one did. Before going out to buy one, I stopped in a tool box my dad had made for me to get out the tape measure and low and behold, I HAD ONE!
After unscrewing 8 screws per cushion, I removed the cushion from the chair. Please notice the million staples that I had to remove with a screwdriver and pliers. That was just firs layer. After removing the black mesh cover, I then had to unstaple the piping which was a whole other layer.
Here is what was removed from ONE CHAIR! Look at all those staples. I left the last layer of material on, not wanting to remove anymore staples.
After taking out a million staples, I then had to put in a million more around the new fabric.
Then a million more around the black mesh cover.
Two days later. Here is the finished product. It was dark and the flash was making the photos a bit distorted. The chairs look pink, but they really aren't they are a light and dark wine color.
The next day, here is the whole dining set.
Here it is up close.
Here is the whole set again from the other side.I love my "new" chairs. I hope they last longer because I don't want to do THAT again. If you are thinking about doing it, it wasn't complicated, just hard work.
