Yup this is pretty much self-explanatory. I made oura rocking chair usable again. To start at the beginning, we bought a simple rocking chair from Wal-Mart (first mistake possibly…) before Tyler was born for, well you know, all that rocking new babies need. We used it for quite awhile until Tyler outgrew all that rocking around 4 months, but the chair had developed some problems along the way. The springs were just metal zig zags that were stuck intp drilled holes in the seat. Needless to say when the springs got a little bent they popped right out, and there was no going back.
The chair before. The springs have been removed as well as the seat pad. If you sat down, you’d fall right through!
My plan of action to make this sucker usable again was to make a new seat like the lawn chairs that have the plastic weaved on the metal frame. Since I didn’t have that plastic stuff that was used for that, I dug out some old burlap that I’d had for about 2 years now. Since burlap isn’t exactly a fine weave, I decided make each strip doubled.
Cutting each strip of burlap to weave across the chair seat.
Each strap was measured to allow about a half an inch extra material past the side of the chair seat “hole”. To secure my loose weave burlap a little bit more, I sewed the ends shut with my trusty dusty sewing machine. I created 6 straps, 3 for each direction. It was then time to attach them!
The new “springs” for my rocking chair.
I attached each strap with the staple gun, which I never used before. It was way easier than I was expecting! My plan was just to do two on each end of the chair, but to be on the safe side (and because it was fun!), I just decided to put as many staples in as I could. This was a cheap chair, it really didn’t have to be a pretty fix!
With the cushions back! All fixed and ready for some rockin’!
I tested it out after I finished just to make sure it held. Tyler loves to rock in it (even before it was fixed), so I didn’t want it to fall apart immediately. It seems to be holding on pretty well so far! Now I don’t have to get rid of a chair that only had one very easy problem to fix!
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