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Grandma's table before restoration

More Kitchen Chairs

Posted on February 12, 2018July 2, 2025 By stega

While rebuilding the Great Wall last year, Agent Smith’s father took some time to refinish the kitchen table and chairs. In September of this year, I finally sewed slipcovers for the wooden chairs and we started using them instead of the black and white metal chairs.

Second shot below is a metal chair next to a wooden chair that matches the table, with a slipcover on it. (The seat had not yet been attached to the chair so it’s a bit askew.) The slipcovers were made from fabric I bought ages ago because I liked it and thought I’d do something interesting with it. A year later, I finally did do something interesting with it.

The metal chairs once belonged to a great aunt, and when she passed away I ended up with them and a matching table, all of them originally avocado green. When I lived in Ohio, I re-covered the chairs and painted them black with white detail, and painted the table with horizontal stripes of black and white. Sadly, the table was made of particle board and fell apart eventually, but the chairs are very sturdy, being of metal and plastic construction.

When I set about rebuilding them, I discovered they were dated 1969 (third pic).

This time when refinishing them, I decided to do a full job of it. This meant pulling the chairs apart completely and exposing the original vinyl coverings that I had covered. As you can see, the original coverings were in pretty bad shape.

The glides were in pretty bad shape too, but once things are in pieces the fun work began.SaveSaveSaveSaveSaveSaveSaveSaveSaveSaveSaveSaveSaveSave

Grandma's table before restoration
Grandma’s table before restoration
Metal and wood kitchen chairs
Metal and wood kitchen chairs
Chair cushion dated APR1969
Chair cushion dated APR1969
Refreshing the metal chair
Refreshing the metal chair
Original vinyl cushion covering
Original vinyl cushion covering
Ratty chair glide
Ratty chair glide
Projects Tags:Furniture, Kitchen

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