Remove seat cushion from chair frame and original fabric from cushion. Tip: When selecting the new fabric, choose one that coordinates with the decor of your dining room. Place seat frame with cushion side face down on lining. Trace three inches out from edge of cushion around entire frame using temporary fabric pen. Attach lining to frame using staple gun. Begin by stapling lining to frame at center point of each side, and then at each corner, pulling fabric tautly around frame. After sides and corners are stapled in place, continue securing lining to frame by working from center point to corner. Trim excess fabric along outer edge of staple line. Place lined seat frame face down on fabric. Tip: If using a patterned fabric, appropriately position the design on the seat cushion. Attach fabric to frame using staple gun. Begin by stapling fabric to frame at the center point of each side, and then at each corner, pulling fabric tautly around frame. After sides and corners are stapled in place, continue securing fabric to frame by working from center point to each corner.
Pull fabric snuggly around curved corners to eliminate tucks on top side of cushion. After seat cushion is covered with new fabric, reattach to chair frame using original hardware.Your Guide to Buying Modern Dining Room Chairs imageDining chairs tend to be the glue which holds together dinner parties and nightly family dinners. Modern dining room chairs come in a wide variety of options. Regardless of the type of design style a consumer...Read More about Your Guide to Buying Modern Dining Room ChairsSome chair covers are machine washable. Chocolate is a treat after any meal but can leave less-than-sweet stains as evidence of your enjoyment, especially if you have children in the house. Chair covers can be removed for easier stain removal, but take them off as soon as possible after a spill to keep the stain from spreading to any fabric on the chair itself. Check the chair cover for washing instructions specific to the fabric, then work quickly to keep the chocolate stain from permanently marring it.
Too Much of a Messy Thing Whether chocolate was spilled, squashed, dripped or dribbled onto your dining room chair cover, you need to remove as much as possible before you continue the stain-removal process. Use a blunt-edged piece of silverware to gently scrape any solid pieces of melted chocolate from the cover, and blot with a damp towel to remove any excess chocolate. You may need to place the entire chair cover into the freezer to harden excess spilled chocolate for easier removal. Rinse and Repeat Hold the back of the stained area under warm water and rinse as much of the chocolate from the fabric as possible. Work quickly to remove the chocolate before it dries and sets, which makes it much harder to remove later. When the water runs clear, add a few drops of dish-washing soap and gently rub into the fabric, then rinse again until you cannot remove any more of the stain. Super Soaker Test a small, hidden section of the fabric before treating the stain on a part of the cover that shows in your dining room.
Soak the stain in an oxygen-bleach cleaner, a solution of 1 teaspoon of vinegar dissolved in 1 pint of water, or a solution of 1 tablespoon of borax dissolved into 1 pint of water. Press the solution into the stain with a damp towel and allow it to soak for two to three minutes. Erasing the Evidence Rinse the stain thoroughly again with warm running water to remove the soaking solution and the remaining chocolate. If the stain remains, apply a laundry pretreatment solution and allow it to set according to package instructions. Wash the dining room chair cover according to fabric instructions and the stain should disappear. If it still is there, you may need to take the cover to a dry cleaner. References Cleaner Carpet and Upholstery: Chocolate Stain RemovalAnton's Cleaners: How to Remove Chocolate Stains Photo Credits Jupiterimages/Stockbyte/Getty Images Suggest a CorrectionEveryday Elegance Chair Covers are the perfect way to spruce up the look of your kitchen or dining room while protecting your chairs.
These dining chair slip covers are easy to use with a simple velcro flap–no crawling under chairs and no need to have an Eagle Scout badge in knot-tying to use these little gems! Everyday Elegance Chair Covers are washable and waterproof, yet they don’t have the sticky plastic feel like the ones Grandma used to use on her chairs. These are dining chair slipcovers with class and style. Any when the seasons change, so can your chair covers! With five different colors to choose from, you can pop one set off and another set on in no time and for very little cost, and your whole room changes to reflect the feeling of the holiday or the season. From formal to casual, from Spring to Fall, end everything in between! As the mother of 9 small children, and with a background in nursing, Robyn knew there had to be a way to deal with the ever-present, ever-occurring scuffs and stains that happen on kitchen chairs. Whether it be guests, children, pets, or just everyday use chairs can take a real beating.
Having tried other chair covers, she found that there was no great solution. Some were “water-resistant”, not water-proof, which meant that liquids leaked through and still stained chairs. Others may have helped protect chairs a little better but at the cost of the chair cover itself–they stained easily and did not clean up and were not washable, so they wound up being “high-cost, single-use solutions”. Others may have been waterproof and wipe-clean, but they were made of the sticky, uncomfortable plastic that Grandma used in the 1970’s, and no adults or children want to sit on them. Others were so complicated to put on, forcing you to climb under the chair and lay upside-down to tie intricate patterns of knots, only to have to spend hours to reverse the process a day later when a spill occurred. So, not seeing any good alternatives on the market, Robyn felt compelled to create her own solution. Thinking of the old-time washable hospital “Chux”, Robyn spent long hours researching and finding the right material that could do the job.