West Elm Sloped Dining Chair Repair

Anyone have any ideas on how to fix these sloped / curved dining chairs which cracked where the back meets the seat? Pics: https://imgur.com/a/3kmTPJ8 Backstory: Made a terrible mistake and bought sloped leather dining chairs from west elm for $300 EACH. They looked nice and thought they would last, boy was I wrong. Leaning back on these chairs at all causes the bent plywood structure to start to crack, it simply has no strength for any sort of sitting back. I am not a heavy guy at all. I've removed a bit of the staples holding the leather down to see where its cracked, I'm hoping someone has a clever way of fixing these, I was thinking about installing some metal bracing but being that I only have easy access to one side, I'm not sure I could reinforce it enough. submitted by /u/wakawaka54 [link] [comments]

Apr 27, 2025 - 06:01

Anyone have any ideas on how to fix these sloped / curved dining chairs which cracked where the back meets the seat? Pics: https://imgur.com/a/3kmTPJ8

Backstory:

Made a terrible mistake and bought sloped leather dining chairs from west elm for $300 EACH. They looked nice and thought they would last, boy was I wrong.

Leaning back on these chairs at all causes the bent plywood structure to start to crack, it simply has no strength for any sort of sitting back. I am not a heavy guy at all.

I've removed a bit of the staples holding the leather down to see where its cracked, I'm hoping someone has a clever way of fixing these, I was thinking about installing some metal bracing but being that I only have easy access to one side, I'm not sure I could reinforce it enough.

submitted by /u/wakawaka54
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