Dining Room Chairs

It's about time I recovered these things! We've all grown weary of searching for those pesky poky grass-slivers...and Cassie was tired of always seeming to get the chair with the broken seat. Sad, I know. So here's the before (the closeup of the seat doesn't show all the fraying from E's shoes constantly on the seat):


I was going between these two fabrics Cassie and I had picked up. J and I liked the red...which has a bit of orange woven into the threads. We have a red chair in the living room with a pattern of orange and black in it so it goes well with it all. It also blends better with the rug whereas we felt the tan made you look at the seat more. Cassie fortunately concurred and I was able to start in :D We had to buy some plywood for the base as the straw seats had only frames. We also bought 1" thick firm foam...wish we would have had an electric knife for cutting...but we made do with a steak knife :P This project took such little time and effort as a whole...I can't believe I put it off for so long!

Ta-daa! The red looks very cherry in these pics...it's not as shiny and is a bit of a duller red than the pics. Between pics 2 and 4 I'd say :P Upholstery is always so hard to photograph...with my camera anyway:





Ahh...no more slivers!