Had a lengthy write-up for this post and accidentally closed the tab (so the Back button wouldn’t recover what I’d written). OK, here goes the rebuild—
No post for yesterday; I was finalizing a new laptop purchase.
Three years ago, I repaired a dining room chair. At the time, I didn’t have a clamp long enough to span the width of a chair. But now I do, as we are embarking on recovering our kitchen chairs and I discovered that one joint had come apart. (I don’t recall when/why I bought a longer clamp, but it was probably for a repair at one of the kid’s houses.)
If you were hoping to zoom in on the label inside the frame, yep, this is an IKEA chair: “Börje.” Purchased in July 2007, so it’s had a good run up to now.
» IKEA no longer sells this chair, but the assembly instructions are still online!
» This chair with seat
AJ at Woodified has a video we watched, “How to Recover a Chair Seat -- Easy to Fold Corners”. In the video, he makes the obvious observation: “Yes, white covers. I don’t know why they even sell white covers. … After one meal of spaghetti sauce, with kids… Yeah, they were— they were stained; they were ruined.” And that’s what we’re replacing (after almost 16 years): white covers.
Retired economics professor (“dismal scientist”). Married 40+ years to the love of my life; we have two grown daughters, both married, two granddaughters and a...
@marlboromaam Clamps are very handy tools! I wish I had more, but as I pointed out in an earlier post, they have to have a place to live when you're not using them. Storage is a consideration!
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