Cutting Down on Stuff – Fixing up Old Dinning Room Chairs
12th July, 2010 - Posted by katherine - No Comments
A couple of weekends ago I decided to try and fix up some of our dinning room chairs. Several of the chairs had had beverages spilled on them over the years, and being covered in an off-white fabric, they were looking pretty dingy. Plus the paint on the chairs was chipped and old. So I took the seat covers off (they just unscrewed), repainted the chairs ( Krylon sells low VOC spray-paint), and recovered the chairs with some new fabric ($10 at JoAnns – enough to cover 3 chairs). It was pretty easy, especially with the staple gun, and much cheaper than buying new chairs.
some tea stains 
post stapling
before and after
“Cutting Down on Stuff” is part on an ongoing attempt by Carsi and I to try to cut down on buying new consumer goods to avoid creating more “stuff” in the world.
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