When my mom came to visit me to help me "purge" my house of unneeded items we decided to recover my dining room chairs :) Not only did we recover them BUT they WERE held together with bungee cords that we removed and replaced with the screws needed :)
It was a hand-me-down table and chairs but now it has fabric and tablecloths (on sale at Wal-mart) that coordinate with my wall portraits in my kitchen :)