Dining Room Set Re-do Part 2

In Dining Room Set Re-do Part One I showed you the beautiful dining room that I had found on Craigslist and has been in our dining room for a little over a year, functional but really needed redone.

I got the kick in the butt motivation I needed when I learned that my husbands sister and brother in law were coming to visit for a week from England. Even though we didn't sit down to eat at it (they don't have a Cheesecake Factory over there) I'm feeling pretty good about finally getting it finished. :)

The chairs had already been previously sanded down (yay!) 
So after wiping them down I was able to start staining them.

I was unsure of what type of wood/color would work best so I choose the Red Oak and it seemed to match the table quite well.

Luckily it was one of the few nice days we had in April and I was able to stain them in the driveway.

   

 This is probably the biggest stain job I have ever taken on, I use a foam craft paintbrush that would extremely well, it really held a lot of stain and spread it very well. The one suggestion I have is to make sure that after it dries that you wipe it down really well, a couple of days after I was still finding sticky spots.

Two of the chair cushions looked like this^ 

I took the first piece off to use a template and this was underneath, with these two I just covered right over them, figured there was no need to change the padding and it was a lot cheaper.

 I laid out the first piece of fabric and cut around it, just a rough estimate, I don't like to measure anything if I don't have too :)

The second two chairs had these cushions on them, I was tempted to leave them unattached and just cover them, but I want the table to look somewhat uniform. When I took this covers off, underneath was two feather cushions, I ended up covering over them.

The feathers made quite a mess!

Rin-tin stopped in to rest his head and share his two cents!

Final result of the cushions, the two in the back are the ones that were unattached, they look a little bumpy and not as firm. 

Final Result!!

Before and Afters :)

Dining Room Set Re-Do Part One

About a year and half ago after we moved in the our house I purchased this awesome dining room table set from Craigslist for 40 bucks!!

Please ignore our pieced together dining room :)

I love this table because its is different then most tables, I love the backs of the chairs!

I was so excited about the price and the fact that the seller had already had the chairs stripped and sanded down and ready to re-do.

So that was my plan. To re-finish them. 

Fast forward to today and they are still unstained. Yep, Life happens.

So we are expecting my husbands sister and brother in law in April, they will be visiting for a week, so now its crunch time!!

From the first picture you can see that two chairs have the padding attached, the second two have cushions. Should I attach the padding or should I buy matching chair cushions?

Any thoughts or ideas?