Chair repair

Few pieces of furniture get more abuse than a chair. Repair a chair in your home and make it look like new by following these instructions for chair...

Weatherproofing your patio furniture is possible without wasting big bills. Give existing mesh chairs a new look with weather-resistant webbing for the seat and back.

After a long winter, the snow finally melted enough to assess the condition of the heavy wrought iron patio set that had remained outdoors. While the chairs l…

My rush seat was perfect, and then it wasn't. At first I was miffed, but since I have repaired other kinds of chairs before with a simple DIY trick and gotten…

Weave Chair Seats With Paracord: It's fairly easy to find old wooden chairs with broken out seat bottoms. Often the chair frame is solid, but no one is interested in reweaving the rush bottom. When I found 5 old chairs in the rafters of a barn I decided to hack them with paracord!…

Hello beautiful friends! Have you ever passed on a chair because it had a damaged seat? Well, today I am getting together with my Furniture Fixer Upper girls to share furniture flips, and I have one such chair to share! I picked this up at the thrift store last week at the bargain discount price

Rushing a chair is one of the traditional methods of creating a seat for a chair with rails around the perimeter. Materials for rushing include twisted cattail leaves or even twisted strands of paper. The strands of rush are stretched...

This post was a slow birth. Like reallllly slow. I actually found and redid these chairs about 2 years ago, started a "how to" post and forgot to finish it. Sorry. But since I did these 2 years ago I can safely say this worked AND held up. When I found these chairs they had great aluminum bamboo frames with not so awesome vinyl straps. Now, I'm not saying I don't like vinyl strapping. I do. It can give you a retro, Slim Aarons vibe real quick if done right. Like here, yes. Sunshine vintage…

I love how this turned out!

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