✔ My Lazy Girl's Conduct To Reupholstering Chairs {A Tutorial}
There are ii types of projects I really love: quick ones together with slow ones. Upholstering slice of furniture is ordinarily neither of those. Unless you lot are doing a uncomplicated chair topographic point re-cover (unscrew seat, staple cloth onto seat, screw topographic point dorsum onto chair), together with then upholstery projects are going to possess got fourth dimension together with effort. I pride myself on finding the cheapest, easiest solutions whenever I can. Ok, I don't really pride myself on it. Truth is I'm just lazy together with cheap. (Ha! I'm kinda kidding.) So if I tin honour an slow work-around to something together with possess got it cease upward looking ok, together with then I'm all for it. I'm non going to prevarication to you, this projection is non slow - or at to the lowest degree it wasn't for me. But it was good worth the fourth dimension together with effort. Much of the difficulty came from this beingness my start assay out - I experience similar if I took on some other upholstery projection it wouldn't live on as hard. Hopefully this tutorial volition help brand this procedure a trivial easier for you lot than it was for me!
When I decided to assay out my manus at reupholstering for the start time, I really had no see what I was getting myself into. I knew it wouldn't live on a slice of cake, but genuinely wasn't certain what to expect. So I just pigeon correct in. There's no "true" agency to live on lazy when reupholstering, but I at to the lowest degree eliminated the pace of totally removing the topographic point cushion together with all of the one-time fabric. Ultimately, the cease resultant was this:
I'm going to present you lot how I upholstered these cane barrel chairs (which I posted well-nigh here), using the easiest method I could figure out. My goal was to recover them without removing the one-time cloth or disassembling the chairs inwards whatsoever way. I halfway succeeded at that. I'm non an upholstery skilful (in representative you lot hadn't figured that out past times now), together with I didn't desire to totally ruin the chairs. I also didn't desire to practice anything that couldn't live on "undone" just equally easily, inwards representative I e'er desire to alter out the cloth again.
These chairs were a grapple Craigslist honour (thank you lot Craig together with your awesome list!). They were precisely what I was looking for, together with they are perfect for our top dog sleeping room sitting area. I honey the size, shape, goal and... oh wait.. nope, non the mauve fabric. That tin go. I opted for navy velvet, together with really industrial plant life the perfect cloth inwards the shape of a window drapery from Target.
Anyway, onto the process. Since I was using lawsuit together with mistake (and to some extent, you lot volition too), I spread this projection out over a few days since it took a few hours each 24-hour interval to larn things "just right." For instance, I would take away staples ane day, sew together cording ane day, attach cloth ane day. It wasn't super quick. I possess got a feeling that the to a greater extent than times I practice this, the quicker it volition get.
Here are the steps:
1. Carefully take away cording.
Using pliers together with teeny tiny scissors, I carefully removed the cording, keeping it all inwards ane long strand thence that I could reuse it.
2. If tufted, take away buttons.
I carefully removed the tufted buttons, which I opted non to reuse. If you lot desire to conk along your chair tufted, you lot tin recover the existing buttons alongside the cloth of your choice. (Just brand a circle out of your fabric, together with then utilization cloth mucilage to encompass the master copy button.)
3. Remove cloth on the top purpose of chair.
Now, here's where it got tricky. I had no alternative but to take away the top/back purpose of the chair completely. There just wasn't a agency to arrive aspect correct from the dorsum together with front end unless I completely redid it. The goodness word is, this purpose wasn't equally hard equally I see it would be. After removing the cording, carefully pry each staple out together with take away the front end cloth first, together with then the foam together with batting, together with then the dorsum fabric.
4. Use the one-time cloth equally a blueprint to cutting your novel fabric.
Try to conk along the one-time cloth inwards tact, together with utilization it equally a template.
5. Replace cloth together with foam on top one-half of chair.
Face the front end of the chair, together with insert your "backing" cloth facing away from you lot within the top dorsum purpose of the chair, together with staple it inwards place. Place the foam together with batting inwards front end of it, together with then the front end cloth layer together with carefully staple that inwards house too. Be careful alongside your staple placement! Try to business them upward equally best you lot tin together with topographic point them within the trivial divit that runs along the wood. You volition live on roofing the staples alongside cording, thence you'll desire them inwards a conduct line.
6. Now for the seat.
Ugh. The seat. Ok, most people volition take away the topographic point the same agency I removed the top/back of the chair together with utilization the existing cloth equally a template for the novel fabric. That's a non bad see together with if it's slow for you, together with then you lot should practice it. However, my chair topographic point was non going to budge easily, together with I started removing the cloth but it was taking a hundred years to pry each staple out. I in conclusion decided it would live on a whole lot easier to just move out it equally is together with encompass it. The start chair was a nightmare. It was lawsuit together with error, alongside an emphasis on error. The hardest purpose is getting the cloth to agree smoothly together with carefully cutting it to agree to a greater extent than or less the parts where the back/sides come across the seat. (I didn't possess got the existing cloth to utilization equally a template, remember.) It was bunching awkwardly together with I kept cutting it to the scream for of butchering it. I in conclusion industrial plant life that it was best to a) non insert a unmarried staple whatsoever until I possess got the topographic point cloth looking perfect together with smoothen together with positioned precisely how I desire it, together with b) start from the back. I started pulling together with cutting a trivial flake at a fourth dimension until I could tuck the cloth to a greater extent than or less each back upward (? stick? arm? wooden thing?) where the back/sides come across the seat, together with then I would motion onto each side, together with in conclusion the front. Pulling, tucking, cutting. Slowly together with carefully. Don't live on likewise scissor-happy!
When you lot in conclusion possess got the cloth looking smoothen together with tucked just right, together with then carefully larn to a greater extent than or less alongside the staple gun together with staple it inwards place. If you lot possess got a pneumatic upholstery stapler, you lot are awesome. I for ane but used a regular one-time staple gun together with an electrical staple gun inwards some areas. As mentioned above, topographic point your staples within the trivial divit inwards the woods (if at that topographic point is ane on your slice of furniture), together with inwards a conduct line. You tin utilization a pocket-sized screwdriver or something similar to tuck whatsoever excess cloth within the divit thence it doesn't autumn below your staple line/cording. After stapling, cut down away your excess fabric, cutting it equally closed to the staples equally possible.
7. Make your cording.
First, take away the one-time cloth from the cording using a seam ripper or pocket-sized scissors. Re-cover the cording using your novel fabric. (Or just purchase novel cording to encompass alongside fabric.) Now, most people would utilization a sewing machine for this. I would possess got been ane of those people if my sewing machine didn't determine it hated my guts. You see, my cloth was super thick because of the blackout lining, together with my machine rejected it together with and then promptly broke together with I had to possess got it inwards to live on repaired. (Sidenote, anyone inwards the due north Atlanta expanse must depository fiscal establishment check out Atlanta Sewing Center for all things sewing-related. They were amazing together with fixed my machine for costless since it was such an slow fix!) Since I was non patient plenty to hold back for my machine to live on fixed, I manus sewed my cording. All four super long strands of it. Basically what you lot practice is cutting a 2 inch broad (and soundless long your cording is) strip of fabric. If your cloth isn't long enough, you lot tin just add together to a greater extent than length alongside a minute or tertiary strip. Use a cording human foot or zipper human foot to sew together your seam equally closed to the cording equally possible. (This is where I manus sewed instead.) Cut away excess cloth equally closed equally possible to the seam.
8. Attach your cording to the chair.
Now, I don't possess got upholstery needles or knowledge, thence I hot glued my cording on. Actually, the cording that was already on the chair had been glued on too. I just used my mucilage gun, carefully roofing the chair alongside one-time towels thence I didn't larn whatsoever gnarly mucilage strings all over my newly upholstered seat. Just move out a pocket-sized department exposed where you lot desire to attach the cording. Go ho-hum together with operate inwards pocket-sized sections. Glue 3-4 inches at a fourth dimension together with attach the cording. Be certain to encompass all of your staples. For the chair back, I started together with ended the cording at the bottom thence the seam isn't all that noticeable. With the seat, I started together with ended at the dorsum of the chair. The cording is really attached rattling tightly together with it would live on hard to take away it, thence I'm perfectly fine alongside the fact that it's glued on.
9. You're done! Now larn possess got a nap. You deserve it.
Now let's aspect at a twain of photos of the terminal product!
Will you lot give reupholstering a try? If you lot possess got whatsoever questions, permit me know together with I volition practice my best at answering them!
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