How to refurbish an old chair
The chair we refurbished was part of the old interior left behind in the flat.
Here it is right in the middle of the old living room, looking all sad and gloomy with the dark brown wood and grey fabric.
When we started renovating the flat we didn’t notice the potential of this chair and used it mainly as a pedestal and work surface. The poor guy was exposed to its fair share of dust, plaster, concrete, paint, … and it accompanied us during the whole time of the renovation. As the chair was always there for us when we needed it, we finally decided that it was time to give back.
We started by removing the seating cushion as well as part of the backrest, and quickly cleaning the chair. Then we sanded it thoroughly until it looked like this:
Note: you do not have to sand your chair quite as much as we did - just roughen up the surface a bit.
When we sanded our chair a lot of dust settled on its surface, which we removed with a wet cloth before painting. Finally, we started painting. It took three coats of paint to get the colour just right. We chose a light shade of blue in honor of this year’s trip to Florida.
Reupholstering the seat was easy: we didn’t even bother to remove the old fabric, and simply cut a square of fabric a bit bigger than the upper side of the cushion:
Here is Christina at IKEA cutting our square of fabric.
We positioned the fabric on top of the old cushion making sure that the pattern would be centred and straight. We then flipped the whole thing around
and used a staple gun to fasten everything (we had a little help from Christina’s granddad here).
The surplus fabric was cut off using regular scissors, and the whole thing was plopped back onto the painted chair.
Here is the restored chair in all its newfound glory:
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