How to mend & reupholster a vintage dining table & chairs

Yipee! Our classified-stalking has paid off again!

We scored a fabulous 1960’s dinette set for a mere €10!

Boo! The chair fabric was itchy carpeting & had a definite vintage-reek to it and the table top had seen it’s fair share of coasterless glasses & pointy cutlery.

With a bit of creativity, funky fabric & chalkboard paint we gave it a groovy new life!

The chairs were a bit of a challenge as we not only had to remove the seats but these beauties also had double-sided upholstered backs! With baited breath we pried off the sides as carefully as possible to take out the chair backs & then freakishly easily removed the seats.

We then ripped off the rank old fabric, gave the existing upholstery foam a thorough cleaning & de-stinking, re-covered it all with our awesome new fabric & put the chairs back together.

Gorgeous!

Next up: the lovely legged but grotty-topped table

The dude sanded off all of the old stain & then I gave it 4 coats of chalkboard paint.

The chalkboard table top is wicked fun!

I am totally smitten with our new chairs!

Pretty groovy eh?

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