Long Over Due!

I finally did it!  I re-covered the chairs for our kitchen table!!!  Yay!  I've had the table for about 10 years now.  I purchased it from a sweet older lady who was moving in with family and selling all of her furniture out of her home.  The table was only about a year old then.  So, that makes it 11 yrs of original fabric!  Wow, definately overdue for this change!  So here is the picture of the original chair:

Boring tan/neutral fabric. I've been meaning to recover these bad boys FOREVA!!!!  I finally found this fabric the other day at hobby lobby:

I purchased 2 yards at $9/yd and used my 40% off coupon.  I figured if I got it home and hated it I'd lost about $12 and I NEEDED this change! 
When we bought our current home my hubby did ALL KINDS of DIY projects.  He stripped wall paper, painted, hung moulding, lights, fans, laid all kinds of flooring...you name it, he did it.  So when I went to recover these chairs and thought of needing his help...I thought twice.  Thought back to the "I never want to do this again"  Ha, ha!  So how did I do it?  I did this as easy as possible.  Here are a list of the supplies I used: 

• staple gun and staples 
• fabric
• drill 

I turned the chair upside down and used an ottoman for a helper.  This enabled me to use the drill to unscrew the cushion from the base without a second set of hands.  Once the cushion/seat form was off I needed to figure out how to cut my fabric.  I laid the cushion face down on the fabric and decided how far out to cut (making sure it would wrap nicely around it).  I cut out one piece and used that as a template to cut the other three.  I'm lazy,anal, efficient like that!  After getting all my fabric cut out it was time to recover the cushions.  I made sure to clean them all before recovering.  ;-)  With two little ones that was a must!  So I grabbed up my staple gun, loaded it with staples and started recovering.  I didn't use any fabric glue or fray check or burn the fabric to keep it from unravelling.  I just folded the edge so that the raw edge was folded under like a hem and THEN stapled it to the cushion/form.  =)  Once they were recovered I used my ottoman again to hold them steady, grabbed the drill, and reattached them to the base of the chair.  Here is the outcome:

The wicker probably needs a coat of paint, but the fabric?   I'm loving it!  I'm thinking of making some curtains (no sew ofcourse) to go with.  I have a sewing machine but I have so little time to use it.  That means that it takes FOREVER to figure it out when I do use it.  ;-)  Anyway, I'm not trying to get to far ahead of myself.  I have to find the time ofcourse!  LOL!
And here's the 'big' picture....what do you think?

Hope you all had a productive weekend!  We stayed busy!  I will be following this post up with one for the grandparents on all our summer fun so far! 
Have a blessed night!