Editor's Tip. Removing old fabric with screwdriver. Editor's Tip If staples or tacks are firmly attached, loosen them by placing the flat edge of a scraper or flat-head screwdriver under the fastener and tapping the handle gently with a hammer. Replacing batting on chair. Cutting new pattern for chair. Attaching base fabric. Making welting for chair. Sewing welting for chair. Attaching side fabric to chair. Credit: Jay Wilde. Cutting excess fabric off of chair.
Attaching back fabric to chair. Reassemble the chair if needed. Trim any excess string or fabric. Gluing excess fabric. Editor's Tip Use fabric glue or decorative upholstery tacks to secure excess fabric to the back of the reupholstered chair.
Stapling fabric to underside of chair. By Jessica Bennett. Comments 5 Add Comment. View Comments. How difficult was this project? Very easy. Kind of easy. Kind of hard. Very hard. April 22, Difficulty: Kind of Hard. I just want to say, the original emerald velvet was gorgeous and didnt look worn or stained to me, but that cheap, tacky, thin, blue fabric, ugh. The method is not unlike wrapping a present, and the results are more professional-looking than you can imagine.
Verdi's rule of thumb: "Anything with straight lines" can probably be upholstered successfully by a beginner. Side note: Here's how to know if you're out of your league. The square seat of a dining room chair or a rectangular bench top are the obvious contenders for a first project, but Verdi says bigger isn't necessarily more complex: "You can upholster a box spring and screw legs onto it so it looks like an upholstered bed.
View Iframe URL. I started pulling and cutting a little bit at a time until I could tuck the fabric around each support? Pulling, tucking, cutting. Slowly and carefully. When you finally have the fabric looking smooth and tucked just right, then carefully go around with the staple gun and staple it in place. If you have a pneumatic upholstery stapler, you are awesome. I for one simply used a regular old staple gun and an electric staple gun in some areas.
As mentioned above, position your staples inside the little divit in the wood if there is one on your piece of furniture , and in a straight line. After stapling, trim away your excess fabric, cutting it as close to the staples as possible. First, remove the old fabric from the cording using a seam ripper or small scissors.
Re-cover the cording using your new fabric. Or just buy new cording to cover with fabric. Now, most people would use a sewing machine for this. You see, my fabric was super thick because of the blackout lining, and my machine rejected it and then promptly broke and I had to take it in to be repaired.
Sidenote, anyone in the north Atlanta area must check out Atlanta Sewing Center for all things sewing-related. They were amazing and fixed my machine for free since it was such an easy fix! Since I was not patient enough to wait for my machine to be fixed, I hand sewed my cording. All 4 super long strands of it. Basically what you do is cut a 2 inch wide and however long your cording is strip of fabric.
Use a cording foot or zipper foot to sew your seam as close to the cording as possible. This is where I hand sewed instead. Cut away excess fabric as close as possible to the seam. Actually, the cording that was already on the chair had been glued on too. Just leave a small section exposed where you want to attach the cording.
Go slow and work in small sections. Glue inches at a time and attach the cording. Be sure to cover all of your staples. With the seat, I started and ended at the back of the chair.
Will you give reupholstering a try? If you have any questions, let me know and I will do my best at answering them! Thanks for visiting! I am super grateful for the shortcut tips—especially the cording recycling and hot glue. They will be put to use in the next month as I attempt to reupholster four of my own chairs. Wow, they came out looking really good! Unfortunately this looks way too difficult for me, LOL. We did get our couches and kitchen chairs reupholstered several months ago but had it done somewhere.
Thank you Rachel! Wonderful transformation and great fabric choice. Thinking I should add a pneumatic stapler to my wish list, so much more fun and ease than my staple gun. It's beautiful. Thank you for sharing the how-to. It's inspiring!! I totally get Colby. Roan would do the same. This is really fantastic- thanks for the blow by blow instructions!
I have this exact chair that presently is covered with a blanket. I have looked at it a thousand times and just didn't have the guts to tackle it. But now I am all in! Was 7 yards enough for the chair or was it too much? I don't have a matching ottoman. And I did have the ottoman too. I still have about a yard leftover. I think 5 yards would do just the chair.
Love this Amy I have lots of this fabric! One of my favorites Your new chair looks so fab in your room now! Janet The Empty Nest. You did a fabulous job Amy and it looks fantastic in your home! The problem that I have always had down here is that the 2nd hand upholstered furniture I find is usually stinky from mildew since it's a high humidity area. Grrrrr, cannot do much about that except rip it all out! Yes you can remove it and use as a pattern, but a ton of work.
I wonder if you could have just used a lining and the new fabric instead Very nice job Amy. I love your chosen fabric. Amy, the chair turned out beautifully! I have upholstered chairs this way, as well as removing the old fabric and the 3 million staples that go with it!
Upholstering over the old fabric is so much easier! And you are right, a pneumatic nail gun is essential! Love your fabric! I loved your settee and how you recovered yours using a very quick and easy method as well!
When I saw you also went over the existing fabric, I knew it wasn't such a weird idea! I just now Pinned it for when I tackle our settee. Thank you so very much! So amazing! Both pieces look great! This is a fantastic tutorial. I'm inspired now to do my dining chair seats. This makes reupholstering seem much less intimidating, and that fabric is gorgeous! I can totally relate to projects taking longer than they need to because of puppy breaks.
It's just too hard to say no to those sweet faces! Great instructions! I just have a question I'm seeing the raw edges very close to the staples will the fabric not pull out? I have two chairs very similar and fabric awaiting my courage to take charge.
Your tutorial was so helpful I may start tomorrow. The pneumatic staples keep the fabric in place with such strength. As you can see in many of the photos, the old staples were done exactly the same way. Good luck! I am bookmarking this post for future reference! You did an amazing job Amy!!!! So beautiful Love it Amy!
Love the fabric too and it turned out beautifully.. What a clear and easy to follow instruction you give I have an armchair just like it and was also thinking to leave the existing fabric because their really is nothing wrong with it. This helps very much, love your fabric choice, by the way!
Ans the pup is gorgeous! Thanks, Mariette. Great tutorial, Amy! The chair looks perfect in your gorgeous home! LOVE the fabric you chose! Amy, The chair looks amazing! It is just so inspiring that you were able to do it all yourself - makes me almost! And I love the fabric choice. I have seen that fabric before and it is really beautiful.
The chair makes the room now! Sheila www. Thanks Sheila! I love that fabric, and have always admired it as well, and this project seemed perfect for it. What a great tutorial, Amy! I'm so glad I found this. My parents have a sofa that has a wooden frame, like your chair has, and I just put it up for sale on craigslist for them.
But now I'm hoping nobody buys it so I can try this. It's terribly ugly now, but I think it can be so beautiful with the right fabric. I've never sewn a pillow cover before. Actually, I don't really sew. But my mom has a sewing machine.
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