Onto the inside: Chairs

Now, as I mentioned earlier, our new home is really quite beautiful. We are so very blessed to have found a home that has no requirements for repair but the challenge is now to decorate. If you've spent much time with me, you know that I lack any sort of creative bug. As such, when I stopped sulking about it, I thought to myself, "How do you learn how to be creative?" the answer was books! So off I went to the library and only 2 weeks later did I start my first project---re-upholstering the dining room chairs. I came to the conclusion that this would be a good first project because you only need a staple gun (provided my my friend Maggie) and fabric which was on sale at Hancock Fabrics. I picked the color orange because I want the room to appear warm. Mom-in-law suggested that I keep some to sew a table runner. That will be another project...
These chairs have seen better days. Although they were very pretty at first, they have collected a few years of sauces, pop, and just about anything else that fell off the dining table. The thing about chairs is that you can't really wash them---you just replace!








First step, remove the cover from the chair with an electric screwdriver.
Step two, pry out old staples so you can replace old cover with new cover and stick it on with a staple gun. (to the right). For this step, I needed my husband to help me pull the fabric so it was taught on the seat.




Voila! Done. Now I have newly covered chairs that I think will really serve as a nice accent to the room.