4 Ways to Dress Up Your Holiday Seating: Mismatched and Ugly Folding Chairs No More!
Here are four great ways to dress up your Thanksgiving chairs. For more information and fun video content, please click the individual project links!
Why not create a luxurious feel with a little faux fur? For about $20 a yard, you can drape that random assortment of folding, office, and dining chairs in soft, fluffy fur and create a stunning, pulled-together look.
Materials:
Faux Fur (60” wide)
Suede Cording
Tools:
Scissors
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Instructions:
1. Cut the faux fur to the width of your chair, plus 8-12 inches.
2. Lay it on top of the chair to cover it and give it a natural, bunched-up look.
3. Using the suede cording, secure the fur in a zigzag fashion, looping the cording up and around. Tie off the cording, leaving long tails as decorative accents.
Modern vinyl-wrapped folding chairs
We’ve found a great way to dress up these potential eyesores, simply using strips of inexpensive vinyl. With a few snips and some very basic knot-tying skills, your chairs can add a little modern dramatic flair to your holiday parties.
Materials:
White vinyl cut into long 2-inch strips, or vinyl ribbon
Folding chairs
Tools:
Scissors
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Instructions:
1. Cut your vinyl into long 2-inch strips if you’re not using vinyl ribbon.
2. Cut a small cross into one end of the vinyl strip.
3. Wrap the strip around the chair back, and feed the end through the small cross, then tie a slipknot to secure the strip.
4. Repeat until the chair back is covered, or until you’ve achieved the desired look. You can line all the knots up, or scatter them across the back of the chair
Cornhusk Brooms for the Kids’ Chairs
This year, use those husky papers to create something fun for the kids to play with. Cornhusk brooms are a blast to zoom around on and double as festive chair decor — for when it’s time to sit down and enjoy the feast.
Materials:
3- to 4-foot stick, about 2 inches in diameter
Cornhusks
Duct tape in wood print
Suede cording
Tools:
Scissors
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Instructions:
1. Cut off any bits of branch or knots on your stick so that it is as smooth as possible.
2. Gather cornhusks, a fat handful at least, so that all the tips are in one direction.
3. Tap the bundle on table, so that the ends are as even as possible, and insert the stick into the middle of the bundle.
4. Wrap tape around the husks as tightly as possible, leaving a 2-inch excess of “husk ends” above the tape wrap.
5. Fold the ends down and over the tape.
6. Leaving a 3-foot tail, begin wrapping the broom with suede cording as tightly as possible over the husk ends. Tie a knot using the suede tail left out and the finished end of cording.
If you’re a chair collector or just happen to have a few mismatched chairs that you’re not quite sure how to tie together, we suggest you unite them with color and stripes! This way you’ll have a perfectly matched mismatched set when guests come around.
Materials:
Mismatched chairs
Spray paint
Duct tape in three colors
Instructions:
1. Spray all your chairs one color and allow them to dry.
2. Using duct tape in three different shades, create a striped pattern across the seat of your chair.
3. Repeat the exact same pattern on all chairs for a unifying look that will give you a complete set.
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