Refurbishing Old Dining Room Chairs

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.

Refurbishing old dining room chairs.

Begin sanding your chair with 100 or 120 grit sandpaper to remove any old paint or varnish. Use an electric sander if you have one to make the job go by quicker. Tina leaza jones april 29 2017 at 12 56 pm. Work includes completely sanding and refinishing the tabletop with up to four coats of finish and touching up the legs as needed.

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. Allow the final coat of polyurethane or tung oil to dry for at least 24 hours before using the table. 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. With about 3 hours of work these antique chairs have been given new life.

Except of course when that furniture is dining room chairs and it s old and beat up and not very pretty anymore. Buff a tung oil finish with a cotton rag. I feel like this post has been in the works forever. Ever since we inherited a.

Do you have great dining room chairs but no longer love the color. Discover the season s newest designs and inspirations. 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. Note that dining room chairs usually come in batches of six and require more labor than you might think.

It is a dark finish counter height table w ladder back chairs a buffet hutch. One dining room chair. Hi i m wanting to clean up my dining room set and then sell it as it s too big for my place. Dining room table measuring approximately 3 feet by 5 feet.

Well here we are more than a year later and i decided it was finally time to refinish the table. Restoration hardware is the world s leading luxury home furnishings purveyor offering furniture lighting textiles bathware decor and outdoor as well as products for baby and child. So we set them up in our dining room scuffs and all and called it good. Wooden furniture is one of the most wonderful inventions isn t it.

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. This tutorial will teach you how to strip paint and recover your chairs.