Refurbishing Old Dining Room Chairs

Use an electric sander if you have one to make the job go by quicker.

Refurbishing old dining room chairs.

One dining room chair. Begin sanding your chair with 100 or 120 grit sandpaper to remove any old paint or varnish. I feel like this post has been in the works forever. Except of course when that furniture is dining room chairs and it s old and beat up and not very pretty anymore.

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. So we set them up in our dining room scuffs and all and called it good. Note that dining room chairs usually come in batches of six and require more labor than you might think. Ever since we inherited a.

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. This tutorial will teach you how to strip paint and recover your chairs. Do you have great dining room chairs but no longer love the color. Work includes completely sanding and refinishing the tabletop with up to four coats of finish and touching up the legs as needed.

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. Buff a tung oil finish with a cotton rag. Tina leaza jones april 29 2017 at 12 56 pm. How to refurbish old dining room chairs.

That s when particleboard and laminate surfaces and cutting corners came along masaschi says. Just follow these easy step by step instructions to give your chairs a big makeover. It is a dark finish counter height table w ladder back chairs a buffet hutch. 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.

Well here we are more than a year later and i decided it was finally time to refinish the table. With about 3 hours of work these antique chairs have been given new life. 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. Dining room table measuring approximately 3 feet by 5 feet.

Allow the final coat of polyurethane or tung oil to dry for at least 24 hours before using the table. Hi i m wanting to clean up my dining room set and then sell it as it s too big for my place.