Hi there, DIY-ers!
I'll try to keep the back-story brief. A former housemate bought a beat-up dining room table and six very ugly, worn-out chairs, for $40 on Craigslist. He left them here when he moved, and this past weekend I found some neat fabric to use to reupholster the seats.
The chairs aren't in great shape -- there's some water damage on the legs and supports, and the cushions are a mess. I turned one of them over and to my surprise found a Findahls Mobelfabrik label, indicating that these chairs used to have leather seats. All I can imagine is that someone rescued these chairs from an unfortunate situation, attached an unfortunate plaid seat back and they re-entered the market.
So. Here we are. Now that I know these are actually really awesome, mid-century chairs, with beautiful teak seat backs (see picture in link above), I want to actually clean them, etc.
I'm looking for some suggestions on what the best process would be. There are tiny holes in the seat backs from where I ripped out the awful plaid seat back cushions (also in the imgur album liked above), but I don't know if trying to fill them would be worthwhile. The teak is beautiful.
Here's what I was thinking: 1) Take the seat cushions off 2) Give the chairs a nice clean with Murphy's, let them dry in the sun outside 3) Reupholster the seats 4) Add some wood glue to the joints that are coming apart, tie frames together while glue sets 5) Seal the teak somehow? Is this something i should even do? Should I just sand off the little nubs where I pulled the nails out? 6) Re-attach seats, enjoy very cool chairs
Would love any advice/suggestions!
Thank you!!
Submitted April 30, 2015 at 03:42AM by Trixie_Firecracker http://ift.tt/1bVXzJz
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