Project of the day: Re-Cover some Chairs

I decided to do a little reupholstering today! I have these two great chairs that my mom bought for me from a garage sale a few years back. I use them whenever we need extra chairs for company.

The chairs were covered in a green and purple geometric fabric that wasn't bad, it just didn't go with anything in our house.

So I decided to cover them in some Ikea fabric I had leftover from making some pillows. Here is the fabric:

And here are the chairs after I re-covered them:

What do you think? It was actually a pretty easy project! The hardest part was detaching the seat from the frame of the chair. They were attached with these screws that had a square opening on the head instead of the typical flat or phillips heads. I had to make a special trip to Lowes to get a square ended screw driver. After I got the seat off I draped the fabric over the seat to see where I wanted the pattern to fall. Then I cut the fabric generously to give me enough to work with. I started on the front and used a staple gun to attach the fabric to the underside of the seat. I didn't even remove the old fabric. I just put the new right over it. Then making sure the fabric was pulled as tight as I could get it I stapled it all around. Whenever I would staple one side I would then staple in the same place on the opposite side. I had the fabric and the staple gun so all this project cost me was the price of the square driver which was $6. Not bad! Now I will be proud to bring them out when we have company. Heck, now that they're so nice I might just leave them out all the time!

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