First make a trip to the fabric store. (As if you'd need an excuse to do that anyways!)
Choose a fabric that appeals to you. Then, buy enough to re-cover the fabric on half of your chairs. Be a good budgeter and wait till later to buy the rest.
Also buy foam padding, because you know the old stuff needs to be replaced. But this time only enough for one chair. Yikes! It's spendy. You can do this project over several months, so don't worry.
Now put your fabric and foam aside for two months. Maybe three. Every once in a while, think with satisfaction how lovely your new fabric is, and how nice it will be to recover your chairs once your child stops having accidents. And even though that last thought is true, be a big girl and 'fess up--you're really just procrastinating. :)
Take your supplies out again in summer. Find a few big helpers, who will be just as excited to use a hammer and screwdriver as play dress-up with the fabric.
Decide to reuse the old foam padding on your chairs. It's perfectly shaped to your chair anyways, and you really can't detect an odor emanating from it. (Eeew. Did I really just say that about my furniture?)
Recover two of the chairs with your little helpers, and be sure to have fun. Now here's where the money-maker comes in.
Remember that new foam you bought? Take it back. With the money you get, pay for enough fabric to cover your other two chairs. Hey, you made thirty-five cents in the exchange! Go to the hardware store to purchase that washer and screw set that's missing from the bottom of one of your chairs. Use the thirty-five cents. Get your kids popcorn. Boy, how they love decorating projects.
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What fun it was to realize that not only could I recover two of our dining room chairs, but I wouldn't have to spend any more money to finish the other two as well. I had to reuse the old foam in the process, but that's acceptable to me.
Amazing how much you can do with limited funds, and how good God is to satisfy even our desires to decorate our homes. :)