Hello all DIY-ers!
Having three children and a cat living in the house, things tend to get ripped up, worn out, and stained. I don't know how many times the little ones spilled their drinks or dropped their food or even ripped the little holes into bigger holes for the fun of it. Oh and my sweet kitty has also been guilty of ripping those holes bigger by playing with the dangling strips of fabric. So looking at the set of chairs in front of me I decided today, of all days, to finally reupholster these chairs with the left over fabric I had laying around my sewing bin. I scrummaged through my fiance's tool boxes and went to work taking the screws out from the bottom half to separate the seat cushion from the wooden chair base. After scavenging the shed and our small tool box inside the house, I realized that we didn't have a staple gun or enough small tack nails so I questioned, "What should I do?" but I soon remembered I had my glue gun. So although I recommend stapling the fabric on, you could hot glue the fabric to the cushion, though I warn you all that this is tedious. During the hot gluing process (or stapling process) I suggest to poke a small hole in the fabric so that it'll be easier later to screw the base back to the cushion. After I put these pieces together it was complete and looked much better. I am truly glad with the result of this DIY even though I didn't have the right tools. Plus the youngest one loves his new chair which always makes me smile :)
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