Restoring Old Dining Room Chairs

Begin with an old chair frame.

Restoring old dining room chairs.

Add comment cancel. Wood can almost always be restored and refinished to become something you love. Always rub with the grain of the wood. This expert advice will help you understand the options when res.

Using your sandpaper rub any marks or scuffs off the wood. Add a comment. Even if you ve purchased a new dining room set or just new chairs for your set you may find it difficult to throw out those old 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.

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. But there s great news and that is this fact. So we set them up in our dining room scuffs and all and called it good. Begin sanding your chair with 100 or 120 grit sandpaper to remove any old paint or varnish.

How to restore the wood finish on a dining room table. With about 3 hours of work these antique chairs have been given new life. For frames in good condition continue to step 5. Unless the piece is an american masterpiece of antique furniture or finished with a hand painted technique some finishes are actually lesser woods painted to look like a tiger oak or bird s eye maple for example and those techniques add value when they stay in place over time cleaning and or restoring the piece may actually do you more good than harm when it comes to value.

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. Add a comment. Restoring antique or worn wooden furniture will improve the aesthetic value of the piece while protecting it against future damage. I m such a packrat that i just can t bring myself to get rid of things sometimes even when they are broken or otherwise seem useless.

Using a temporary fabric pen trace a line three inches out from the seat and cushion. Except of course when that furniture is dining room chairs and it s old and beat up and not very pretty anymore. Use an electric sander if you have one to make the job go by quicker. Well here we are more than a year later and i decided it was finally time to refinish the table.

Step 1 how to restore a dining chair.