Our Wonderful Years...

Over the course of the average lifetime you meet a lot of people. Some of them stick with you through thick and thin. Some weave their way through your life and disappear forever. But once in a while someone comes along who earns a permanent place in your heart.

Brown hair, brown eyes. When she smiled, I smiled. When she cried, I cried. Every single thing that happened to me that mattered, in some way, had to do with her. After all, she was my girl. And I knew that she understood that in some small way my achievements were her achievements.

~ Kevin Arnold

Friday, July 15, 2011

Recovering Dining Chairs: Part I

Last Fall I promised my sister Shelly that I would help her recover her dining room chairs as part of my Christmas Gift to her.

We went to Mill End and picked out some lovely fabric for the chairs and coordinating fabric for some curtains.

Here's the before and after on the chairs.

Before:After:
She inherited this set from her in-laws and so we wanted to make sure we did a really good job with the recover. I think we did pretty good. It was a learning experience, for sure, but it turned out well in the end.

The main issue with these is that there is a swatch of fabric around the edges of the 2" foam. We had to cut a pattern out of muslin (cheap!) and then cut all the individual pieces and sew them all together to make a slip cover of sorts. Then we had to pull all the staple (trust me, there are A LOT) on the old covers, cut new foam to fit, hot glue the foam down (it makes it a lot easier, but not required), then we could actually put the new slip cover on and staple it down.

I have to say, it sounds like a lot of work... and it is kind of a big project, but we had Me, Shelly, Mom, Dad and for a while Steven helping out. We did all 6 chairs in less than 8 hours. We also took a break for lunch and then we had a nice dinner to top it off.

Pretty good right?
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