Refurbishing Old Dining Room Chairs

It is a dark finish counter height table w ladder back chairs a buffet hutch.

Refurbishing old dining room chairs.

Hi i m wanting to clean up my dining room set and then sell it as it s too big for my place. Except of course when that furniture is dining room chairs and it s old and beat up and not very pretty anymore. Begin sanding your chair with 100 or 120 grit sandpaper to remove any old paint or varnish. With about 3 hours of work these antique chairs have been given new life.

Wood in and of itself is a gorgeous material and when it s used for furniture it s just perfection. Just follow these easy step by step instructions to give your chairs a big makeover. Work includes completely sanding and refinishing the tabletop with up to four coats of finish and touching up the legs as needed. That s when particleboard and laminate surfaces and cutting corners came along masaschi says.

Well here we are more than a year later and i decided it was finally time to refinish the table. Tina leaza jones april 29 2017 at 12 56 pm. The matching chairs need a bit more repair so they are hanging out in our basement for now until i get around to dealing with them. Generally even mass produced furniture from before 1960 is sturdier and better made than today s cheap furniture your find doesn t have to have antique value to be a great vintage piece that will give you years of service.

Note that dining room chairs usually come in batches of six and require more labor than you might think. One dining room chair. This tutorial will teach you how to strip paint and recover your chairs. However you will most likely need to sand the legs and any backing of the chair by hand since the sander cannot get into any grooves and other details.

So we set them up in our dining room scuffs and all and called it good. I feel like this post has been in the works forever. Buff a tung oil finish with a cotton rag. These gorgeous chairs now have pride of place in our dining room which we recently made over you can check out the full dining room makeover here note that the photos in our dining room makeover post were taken before i refinished these chairs.

Use an electric sander if you have one to make the job go by quicker. Dining room table measuring approximately 3 feet by 5 feet. Do you have great dining room chairs but no longer love the color. Apply at least two coats since dining room tables get a lot of use allowing each coat to fully cure before applying the next one.

Wooden furniture is one of the most wonderful inventions isn t it. A formal dining room can be an elegant space to entertain guests but if your dining room chairs are starting to show their age they can spoil the look of.