Every few years I re-cover the seats on my dining chairs, and I was in Spotlight recently during a half price fabric sale and found this heavenly Mexican striped fabric. I absolutely had to buy it, and it seemed like a great pattern to use on my chairs.
I’m not sure how old these dining chairs are, but we had them when I was a child. They weren’t new then either, they were given to us by a friend of my grandmother’s called Miss Rooney. I don’t know who she was but she gave my family all sorts of odd things!
Back then they were covered in a dark red leather or vinyl with brass studs across the front. They weigh an absolute ton- the wood is really really dense, which makes pulling staples out of them a bitch of a job!
I loved the cheerful cherries oilcloth I covered them in two years ago, but cat claws haven’t been kind to it!
It’s a pretty straightforward process-unscrew the seats, pull out the staples, cut new cloth and staple it on!
With wood this dense, I really appreciate my electric staple gun!
The fabric is perfect for these chairs. Great find and great job reupholstering the seat covers. Cheers, Michele
Thanks Michele! It was the perfect choice, I was so lucky to have come across it 😊
LOVE it!!!
Thank you Amie!
Hi.
CAn you tell me where to buy fabric like that?RM
This fabric came from Spotlight Stores Australia