Do It Yourself Oak Dining Chairs
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010 | Great Sites
After making the decision to redesign and redecorate your dining room, the search has begun for all the pieces. You found the perfect table at an antique dealer and brought it home and refinished it yourself. Now the need for chairs arise and in keeping with the theme of “I did this all myself” you find yourself looking for put together oak dining chairs to build and finish to match.
There are quite a few furniture manufacturers out there that offer exactly this. A kit with all the parts to assemble, stain and finish your very own set of oak dining chairs. These kits come in a wide range of styles and sizes and are fairly simple to assemble.
Assembling these kit chairs takes some time, but not near as much as you would think. The pieces are pre cut and ready to put together. It is a simple matter of adding glue in the right spots and fitting the pieces together. Be sure to follow the manufacturer’s instructions included with the kits.
Having some clamps and straps on hand to assist you is not a bad idea either, as these can hold the chair together while the glue dries. Use a rubber mallet to tap pieces in to place rather than a regular hammer as the mallet will leave no marks. You do not want to dent your new chairs before they have even been sat upon.
Then once they are assembled and the glue is completely dry, you can move on to staining and finishing them to match your table. Choose a stain and polyurethane combination so that this is completed in one step. Make sure the area is dust free while doing this and while they are drying, this alleviates the need to sand or steel wool and recoat.
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