A couple years ago I found myself being creative and thrifty and re-upholstered (if what I did even deserves that title) an old simple dining chair. I found the chair at Goodwill for $4- in great condition- just needing a little love in the seat pad. So... I bought some scrap fabric on clearance, retrieved my husband's staple gun out of his tool chest, and had a nice little accent chair in no time!
Unfortunately, I became less crazy about my fabric choice later on, and the chair was hiding away, not being used. A couple weeks ago I found a great spot for the chair in our dining room, and all it needed was a little repair on one of the arms- which had become damaged in our move last year- and some fabulous new fabric for the seat!
The arm of the chair was easily repaired with some wood glue and a new screw.
The adorable fabric came from a contest I won featured on yellowsongbird.blogspot.com for the My Little Sunshine Fabric Shop on Etsy. The fabric I chose was designed by Anna Maria Horner. Her stuff is amazing! Think Amy Butler. Here is one of the fabrics I won- and the fabric I chose to use for my chair.
All it took was stretching the appropriately cut fabric across the removed chair pad, making sure the design was symmetrical, and stapling the fabric to the underside. When done, I trimmed away the excess, and screwed the pad back to the frame of the chair. The only trouble I encountered was working with the corners.
And there we go- for $0 I a repaired the arm, added a new pop of color to my dining room, and what I had already made new from old, was made new once more!
