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.

How to refurbish old dining room chairs. That s when particleboard and laminate surfaces and cutting corners came along masaschi says. Dining room table measuring approximately 3 feet by 5 feet. Wooden furniture is one of the most wonderful inventions isn t it.

With about 3 hours of work these antique chairs have been given new life. Note that dining room chairs usually come in batches of six and require more labor than you might think. Wood in and of itself is a gorgeous material and when it s used for furniture it s just perfection. Buff a tung oil finish with a cotton rag.

Allow the final coat of polyurethane or tung oil to dry for at least 24 hours before using the table. One dining room chair. Well here we are more than a year later and i decided it was finally time to refinish 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.

Begin sanding your chair with 100 or 120 grit sandpaper to remove any old paint or varnish. 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. I feel like this post has been in the works forever. 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.

Do you have great dining room chairs but no longer love the color. 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. This tutorial will teach you how to strip paint and recover your chairs.

Tina leaza jones april 29 2017 at 12 56 pm. Ever since we inherited a. Use an electric sander if you have one to make the job go by quicker. So we set them up in our dining room scuffs and all and called it good.

Except of course when that furniture is dining room chairs and it s old and beat up and not very pretty anymore. 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.