Recovering Dining Room Chairs?

I read the title and thought of chairs getting over an addiction. :p

I always just picked a fabric to match the window treatments, I am strange that way. They are really easy to cover. I have always just gone over the existing cushion. Just cut the cloth larger than you need because you snip the extra. Take a staple gun, when I say staple gun I don't mean office depot, I mean Lowes. Half inch staples. Anyway, staple one side underneath, then the opposite, then the sides. Keep adding staples ever two inches till you get two inches from the corners. Then you do some decorative tucking, kind of like wrapping a present, then staple that in place. Then reattach the cushion to the chair.

It's actually not that hard and pretty much what you describe. I used a heavy duty stapler. I didn't use any particularly resistant fabric, but go to the upholstery section of the fabric store for more sturdy fabric options. I also turned ours dark red so the stains don't show (vs the white we had prior). If you give yourself enough fabric to fold over nicely and staple on the back, you can trim away the excess and everything will look nice.

Go with oil cloth. There are some beautiful, modern prints and solids that look like high-end fabric but you can easily wipe them clean.

It really is what you described. Unscrew the seats, wrap the fabric around the cushion, staple in place and then re-fasten the cushions to the chair.

Sounds like you've pretty much got it down. It is really that easy. I would look for a microfiber. Microfiber is stain resistant and cleans up well.
If you want, you could also cover the chair(s) the child(ren) use afterwards with heavy duty saran wrap. It can be replaced as needed. And extend the life. I had a high chair booster in one of my chairs, so I did that to protect the chair underneath!

It's easy to do.

If I can do it (and I did), anyone can do it. :)

Pick a fabric that you can wipe down since it is the dining room chairs.
I had to learn the hard way and had to re-do them.
I'd, also, recommend choosing a print rather than a solid for this reason.

Turn chairs over.
Unscrew the seat.
Put the fabric on, pull tight & staple.
Re-screw seat back on. Done!

I used fake leather. It's cheap and looks expensive and best part, cleans up nicely. In my kitchen about 10 years now and still looks great!

I have recovered my dining room chair cushions. It's so very easy. Yes, you unscrew the pieces from the chair, remove the cover and the padding. I used upholstery batting for the padding but you can also use foam. You can purchase both from a fabric store. Cut the padding out using the old padding as a pattern. Do same for fabric. I added a bit more to the size of the cover so that I'd be sure to have enough to fold over the padding. Staple the fabric to the seat bottom. Replace the seat on the frame and screw it back on.

Go to a fabric store that carries upholstery fabric. They can steer you to stain resistant fabric.

omg pinstrest has tons of ideas