Chair Socks!

For so many years we have always used those sticky felt pads for the feet of our chairs and tables to keep them from scratching our floors when they moved. I was tired of constantly replacing them because they would move off the bottom or move up the legs.  Then there was the constant collection of dog hair, dust and dirt that stuck to them.

We have these in many shapes, sizes and colors.

Gross, Gross, Gross!!

When we moved into our current house I did some Googling and found chair socks and fell in love. I bought them for my kitchen chairs in our house and decided to buy them for the table and chairs for our Florida condo. While I have never had an issue with them at home, the socks on the condo chairs were always falling down and drooping.

Droopy socks.

When we were at the condo this Fall to do our deep cleaning we decided to buy new socks for the furniture and also change the color.  We went from black socks to brown, which matched the furniture a little better.  But, we still needed to figure out a way to keep them from drooping. My husband came up with the perfect solution.

If only they stayed on the leg like this.

Zip Ties are the answer.

After pulling the socks onto the chair leg tightly he took a zip tie and wrapped it around the sock about and inch or two below the top of the sock. He pulled the ties very tightly with the head of the tie on the inside of the leg and cut the tail off at the head.

The zip tie was put on tightly and the head is on the inside of the chair leg.

The sock is folded down over the zip tie.

Then all you have to do is fold the top of the sock down over the zip tie so the sock looks like it has a cuff. BRILLIANT!  We also used the zip tie for the living area side chair. They look great, save your floors, and now stay in place.

They look great and hopefully will stay on now!