How to Reupholster a Chair

Recently land thrift store shopping, I came across the cutest niggling chair for 5 dollars. After a niggling DIY upholstery work, it turned out fifty-fifty cuter.

Here's how the chair looked when I start brought it home. It was a dark, scratched upward woods together with the topographic point encompass was covered inward a strawberry print.

Pretty much awesome.

Strawberries or not, I idea it had the sweetest niggling shape together with I loved the item on the wooden frame.  I decided to pigment the frame a lite bluish together with recover the cushion. I used a $6 tablecloth for the topographic point cushion fabric. It was a heavy duty canvass cloth together with was a much cheaper alternative than paying $40/yd for normal upholstery fabric. (See my tips on choosing a impress here.)

Here's how this cute niggling chair turned out.

I trimmed the topographic point cushion amongst argent nailheads to add together a niggling extra glam!

Where exercise you lot intend I should purpose this cute niggling chair? I'm thinking mayhap the bedroom office/sitting room.

Now, let's become through reupholstering a topographic point cushion stride past times step. It's together with therefore tardily together with very anyone tin give the axe exercise it.
Here are the supplies you'll need.

First,  flip the chair upside downward together with purpose a screwdriver to unscrew the topographic point cushion from the frame.



Then haul the frame outside.

Now it's fourth dimension to paint.

Here are my half-dozen tardily steps to ikon the perfect chair.
1. Lightly sand
 (use 150 grit sandpaper).
2. Use Spray Primer to coat the entire chair.
 (This volition driblet dead along the woods stain from seeping through your paint, together with volition build the pigment stick to the chair. I honey using spray primer on chairs because it's together with therefore quick!)
3. Lightly sand when dry
 (use 150 or 220 grit sandpaper).
4. Paint ii coats of your chosen paint
(sanding betwixt coats).
5. When dry, exercise concluding lite sanding to teach the smoothest finish.
 (220 grit).
6. Coat amongst your selection of either wax or varnish. 
(I used Blair Spray Varnish because it's quicker than brush on together with it's durable plenty for a chair. See to a greater extent than most how to select a clear coat here.)

For my pigment color, I bought a sample of Behr Light French Gray. It's the perfect color of gray-blue together with I've equally good used it here and here.

Now that your chair frame is painted, it's fourth dimension to reupholster the cushion.

First, lay your cushion upside downward on the underside of the fabric. Cut but about the cushion, leaving roughly 4'' or to a greater extent than on each side.

I similar to build my cushions super-plush, together with therefore I chose to describe the stuffing out of an one-time pillow together with pose it betwixt the cushion together with the fabric. Next, plication your textile over each side, pulling equally tight equally possible, together with staple but about the edges. For an inward depth stride past times stride on making corners, delight run across this post.

Do this all the means but about the cushion.

After the cushion is upholstered, it's fourth dimension to add together the boom caput trim.

Simply hammer the nailheads inward 1 past times 1 inward a forthwith trouble but about the border of the chair.

And that's it! You bring a build novel upholstered chair for a fraction of the cost! To run across my top 10 favorite chairs I've redone, delight view this post.

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