Seats on dining room chairs

Pink.

Hi catkins,

There is a thread here on cleaning fabric dining chairs which may help.

Pink

sooz

cats just love to skulk on chairs under tables, don't they....i've now learnt to shut the dining room door, so the little hairy one can't get in. if you're recovering in a dark fabric, it should not show up the dirt so quickly. i use sticky mitts - from lakeland or kleeneze - to get the fur off. they are quite large and quick to use, or you could use masking tape wrapped round your hand.

perfectly happy people sell dining chair clear plastic tie on covers, thinking about getting one for the toddler when he starts to use a proper chair, not a high chair, but fear guests might think that i think they are incontinent

jaybee

This reminds me of years ago when I was burgled. The policeman arrived to take a statement etc and sat at the table on the one chair that my black & white fluffy cat claimed as her own. When he got up he had a very white fluffy bum on his otherwise immaculate dat uniform!!!!!! I no longer have a cat but I used to find that sellotape wrapped around my hand used to get rid of most of the fur (from the chair, not the cat!)

4Chickens

Hi I hope you peeps can help

I have four dining room chairs and the seat covers a becoming disgusting. This is due to 3 moggies and a pooch with dirty paws.
I would like to re-cover the seats using a material that I can wipe clean but I would like it to have a pattern, a bit like those plastic table cloths in a way. Now, where would I be able to buy approx 1 square metre of this sort of stuff?

Alcmene

Hobbycraft, or Dunhelm Mill or Abakhan, or your local fabric market stall.

tracey357

Hi cindiedunkley,

Like you my dining room chairs where pretty discusting, my dd1 painted them black using poster paint:eek: they were originaly cream.
I tried re-covering them but when I found it too much hassle, in the end I got some chair covers from amazon, I think they were about £12 each.
They Look nice & can be taken off to wash.
(i've thrown the paint in the bin!)
Best of luck
Tracey

Kandipandi

I would cover them in oilcloth. You will have seen it used as a tablecloth, its a cotton with a vinyl coating.

Try googling oilcloth fabric online and have a browse.

Butterfly_Brain

Ikea, hobbycraft ( but they are pricey) Dunelms or try the internet

http://www.fabrics-n-stuff.co.uk/?gclid=CMiRu6W1jaACFQU9lAodyxgweg

http://www.terrysfabrics.co.uk/online-fabric.php

4Chickens

Cheers

You lot are brilliant:T

Counting_Pennies_2

John Lewis, Cath Kidston all do some lovely oil cloth to recover.

I recovered some chairs years ago. I popped out the inner seat and used a heavy duty stapler to put it in place.

hth