Today I decided that while the washing machine was doing it's thing I would re-cover the dining room chairs. The original covering was a cream fabric which has become a bit tired looking and I had used an upholstery cleaner on them several times because when the grand-children were small, sticky fingerprints could not be avoided.
As I don't want to spend my retirement doing unnecessary jobs, I bought some dark cream faux leather covering a few weeks ago becuase it can be wiped off with a damp cloth. This had been left on the side in the dining room, out of the bag so that it could breathe. Being made of polyurethane or similar chemical based fabric it did pong quite a bit and I don't really want to start glue sniffing at my age!
I gathered the tools I needed such as scissors, screwdriver and staple gun and knelt on the sitting room floor where I cut the covers out. The table and chairs had been self assembly when I bought them and I had put them together myself. However, some nine years on, I found that my fingers weren't quite as flexible as they had been when I assembled everything but eventually I got the seats off and started to put the new covers on.
As I like to do things properly, I took my time but the job took me a lot longer than I thought it would. Now the chairs look very smart and even a blind man on a galloping horse wouldn't be able to tell that they had been re-covered.
As for my fingers (and knees), they're feeling quite stiff so I think I'll spend some time massaging in some handcream later.
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