Dining Room chairs - Before and After

Now that we have the four chairs spray painted for our new dining room table, we have been looking for fabric to reupholster the seats with.   The chairs originally had a stained and worn beige and what I would call "dusty" rose color floral pattern fabric, definitely not pretty.

We narrowed down to our three favorites (all from JoAnn Fabrics):


Waverly Carino / Buttercup - Definitely one of my favorites.  It also comes in blue which would work well with two yellow end chairs.  However it might be a bit too much of a mustard yellow. 

Waverly Porch Swinger / Chambray - The stripe is classic,  love how it's called Porch Swinger.  The blue matches almost perfectly to the chair.

Waverly Language Of The Garden Ballroom Plaid - I really like the plaid but the blues look a bit off and it might be slightly a too country kitsch for my taste.

We ended up going with a pattern very similar to Waverly's Porch Swinger and we love it. 

We spent yesterday upholstering two of the four chairs (one of the wooden seats is cracked so we need the 3rd chair as a sample to trace a new seat seat).   I have never upholstered anything in my life so it definitely was an newbies's attempt.  Not perfect but I think overall a vast improvement to how the chairs looked before.   The fabric was exactly what we were looking for and just so happens to almost match the fabric on the Country Living cover that was my inspiration!