Now, just as a reminder – it’s always good to look at where we start to see the difference from where we ended up – I started with four of these: Old bent-wood kitchen chairs that I had inherited many years ago. A lot of the finish had been rubbed off the backs; there was a certain amount of small repairs that had to be done on the spindles (thank you, wood putty), the seats needed to be completely redone with new foam and fabric and so on. To review what I did, see these:
Pull up a chair
Pull up a chair – part 2
Once I got the seats all done (and frankly, once you have all the foam and fabric pieces cut out, doing all the seats at one time is less than an hour), then it was back to the frames. The DH had really done all the heavy lifting on the repairs. The spindles in the backs had all popped out of their holes at the underside of the top of the back and he repaired that by frankly shoveling into the holes a whole lot of wood glue and wood putty, jamming the spindles back into the holes and then using rope wound around the seat and over the top of the back as a primitive sort of clamp to hold the spindles into the holes while everything dried and set. Then I took a craft knife and chipped off anything that squeezed out of the holes. (more…)
