Fifteen dollar Slipcover Chairs

Hello Sweet Friends.

Happy New Week.

I found a real bargain on FB Marketplace.  Found these two slipcovered dining chairs for $15 for the pair.  I saw these and thought even with how dirty they are I think I can do some magic to them and make them pretty again.  

I forgot to take my own before pictures so all I have is the picture from FB Market Place.  As you can see they have seen better days. 

As you can see they were very dirty but no rips and a few juice stains.  The pads were really worn down.
For $15 for both chairs I thought I would try to see  what I could do with them.  

I got my arsenal of things I thought might whiten and brighten and remove the stains on these chair covers.  All of these you can find at Walmart, Target or your grocery store.

I sprayed with shout on all the stains and heavily soiled areas.  Then I put them in the bathtub with bleach and water mixture.  If you look on pinterest you can find the exact measurements to do this.  I just put the whole bottle of bleach and filled the bath tub with hot water to cover all of the slipcovers.  I left them in the mixture to soak for 2 hours going in about every 15 minutes to stir the slipcovers and turn them to make sure all of the covers got soak with the bleach and water mixture.

Then after the bleach bath I put them in my washing machine and added the brite white and let them soak for 30 minutes.  Then I washed them in tide with oxy clean and a cup of vinegar.  The vinegar keeps the bleach from eating at the fabric after soaking them for so long in the bleach bath.

As you can see the stains and dirt are gone and they went from a cream to white.  If you look at the bathtub picture above you can see how dark of a cream they were.  This process really works to bring them to white.

I really was not happy with the dark legs or the fact that the cushions were not in great shape and the covers shrunk.  Plus as hard as I tried I could not get the juice stain out of the cushion covers.

I decided to just pitch the cushion covers.  The chairs are still comfortable enough without them.

The final thing I want to do is paint the legs white.  Too dark for me lol!

 I paid  $15 for the pair with the intentions of experimenting and seeing if I could get them white.  I thought I have not spent a lot of money if this experiment does not work. 

Then if they came out I was going to sell them on FB Marketplace.  Now that I see how cute and nice they are I am not sure I want to sell them!! 
All I have left to do with these is to paint the legs white.
Have a great new week.

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