protecting dining chairs from the kids eating mess

[Mr Squidipa]

im buying dw a dining sweet and it is very costly and i dont want it to get wrecked with the kids making a mess on the chairs what would you suggest would be the best waterproof material to buy for dw so she can make some kind of cover to cover the coushing part of the seat what have you done to protect your chairs? how do you deal with this with messing eating kids?

[Trillian]

I am going to do the same thing when we finally replace ours. I was going to use PUL - Squiddy will know what that is. It was the best fabric I thought would be suitable to make covers for the seats.

[AliBaby]

I can remember as kids that mum and dad put a small towel on our chairs that we sat on. It did the job.

[Mr Squidipa]

atm we use oild nappies but they are not thick enough and they are not water proof we want the dining sweet to last a very long time

[Tinks]

I bought wooden chairs for that very reason. Someone I know had thick plastic put over hers by her apholsterer. It lasted years and didn't rip.

If you're buying a new one maybe you should look out for leather chairs, they wipe off so easily.

[Boo Boo]

we have got leather chairs and they are very practical in terms of spills, wipe up great.

good luck.

[somewoman]

Yep, also suggest buying dining suite in leather. Our is cloth and gets revolting in 5 seconds flat, and I struggled to find a suitable way to keep it clean. In the end I bought a leather dining chair at a garage sale for $15, and it is quite possibly the best $15 I've ever spent!

We will be replacing all of our dining chairs with leather at some stage, just not until after we've thrown money at other areas of our house! I may be waiting a while...

[Nai]

We have wooden chairs for that purpose - they look gorgeous and are low maintenance

[Mother Goose]

we put down old cloth nappies on DD's chair - it does the job wonderfully.

[Mrs McAwesome]

i am interested in this, we just bought a beautiful dining suit on ebay for $300 including bedroom furniture. ( we were very blessed with this purchase, our bedroom suit was white with pink handles that i had used since i was 10). but the seats are that cream microsuede stuff and with little miss hendo coming soon i soo want to know how to keep it clean. What is PUL?

[Daydream Believer]

with my old dining chairs I made covers out of calico & sprayed them with scotch guard & they worked worderfully