How long?

I wasn’t up for painting today, so I suggested to Brian that we finish upholstering one of the dining room chairs. We started this job probably two years ago now. We have six chairs to do in total, and when we started we only managed to complete one. We then did half of another six months later, but it was when we were here one summer and it just got too hot to finish it, so it has been a job that’s just been hanging around. I found all the tools and paraphernalia you seem to need and we reviewed what we had previously achieved.

We decided that the struggle we were having with them was that using upholstery tacks was proving really difficult. And recent video posts we had seen of people doing upholstery showed that they had used a staple gun. Although I like the look of tacks, I think unless they will be seen, and I intend to stick some braiding over ours, why struggle. So we loaded up the staple gun and got to work.

An hour later the second chair was finished. Only four more to go, however they need to be destapled, and repainted before we can start to cover them, so more on that over the coming weeks/months. I’m positive though that it won’t take us another two years to finish two more!