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Upcycling Dining Room Chairs

Some years ago I bought 10 dining room chairs on EBay from a local restaurant.   I didn’t want or need 10 chairs, but that was the offer.   In fact, in retrospect, it wasn’t a bad buy at all.   A couple of years after this I bought a large pine table from a garden centre!   Quite bizarre, I know, we actually went to buy a Christmas Tree :-). Anyway, the chairs were not quite the colour I wanted, and as I hesitated on viewing them the seller offered to include 10 chairs covers.  I was persuaded, and bought them all for a very reasonable price. I was never completely happy though with the russet colour and often on special occasions, or just for a change, we used the swanky covers :-).   However, as I know have more time on my hands, I decided it was time to upcycle them with bright new covers. I have to admit I was shocked by the price of upholstery fabric.  Even searching on line for sale fabric remnants I found little to fit my budg...