How to recover dining room chairs?
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Reupholstering Your Dining Chairs | Upholstery Training Experts
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How To Reupholster a Dining Chair | *Detailed Tutorial* - YouTube
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{Tutorial} How To Recover Dining Room Chairs
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Answer
Here are the key steps to recover dining room chairs:
. With patience and attention to detail, you can easily recover dining chairs to match your decor.
- Remove the seat from the chair frame using a screwdriver or Allen wrench. Set aside the screws so they don't get lost13.
- Pull out all the staples from the chair frame using a tack puller or needle-nose pliers. Remove any remaining fabric and padding13.
- If the chair has a fully upholstered non-removable seat, attach sagless or jute webbing to the top of the seat frame for support. Place a cardboard tack strip over the webbing and staple it in place. Pull the new fabric over the seat, positioning it at the back, and staple the tack strip down to secure the fabric1.
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For chairs with a removable seat, cut the new fabric to size and staple it to the underside of the seat frame, pulling it taut and stapling every 1-2 inches. Fold the fabric over the edge and staple it to the top of the frame.2
- For chairs with a back, start by stapling the new fabric to the outside back of the frame. Add sagless or jute webbing for support, then layer cotton and dacron padding. Finally, staple the inside back fabric in place15.
- Reattach the seat to the chair frame using the original screws13.
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Optional: Use a sewing machine to create piping from the fabric and staple it around the seat edge for a finished look.2
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References
1. Reupholstering Your Dining Chairs | Upholstery Training Experts2. How To Reupholster a Dining Chair | *Detailed Tutorial* - YouTube3. {Tutorial} How To Recover Dining Room Chairs4. The Only Guide to Reupholstering Dining Chairs You'll Ever Need5. {Video Tutorial} How to Recover a Dining Chair
Author: Southern Girl Interiors
Key insights
- ️ Selecting the right fabric is crucial for the project's success.
- The process of screen printing fabric allows for more wear and tear and helps the color stay on.
- 🪑 Using a woven fabric for chair cushions may not be as durable as other options, especially if you have children.
- Determining the fabric needed for recovering chair cushions is based on creating perfect squares, with the exception of specific patterns or medallions.
- 🪚 Reusing the dust cover and removing staples with a butter knife are cost-effective ways to reupholster dining chair cushions.
- ️ Securing the fabric with multiple staples ensures that it doesn't slide around and stays tight.
- Securing the top and pulling it tight with staples is key to achieving a professional-looking finish.
- 🪑 "I absolutely love how my chairs came out and I still love how my chairs turned out."
Video Full Text
- Hey fam it's a southern girl. Today. I'm actually getting ready to redo the chair cushions. I do have a video already that I did some years back on how to redo chair cushion so that you can know step by step on how to recover a chair just by changing the chair. Cushions or the fabric on the chairs can really update your space. Let's go ahead and get started here are your project stats and the supplies you will need will be scissors a hammer. A drill with drill bit screws a butter knife. A tape measure staples a staple gun fabric and a pencil or marker. You want to select the right fabrics. According to use the type of fabric that I selected is called a woven fabric.Read More
- All of the threads are woven together and the colors typically go through. They may not all show all the way through. But it lets you know that the threads have been dyed and this allows for more wear and tear and for the color to stay on to your fabric. Now. This fabric is considered a screen print and what a screen print is where the color is just dyed to one side and the way that you can tell this is if you flip the fabric over and it's pretty much white. No color has gone through.Read More
- I mean this is a fabric you still could put on your chairs but if you do just know that it will not have the durability of the woven fabric. You can't find a fabric in the woven that you absolutely love and you come across the ones in the screen print. What I suggest is to recover this fabric in the steps that I'm going to show you and then go over it with plastic to make sure that this fabric stays intact and this is especially helpful if you have children I hope that helps you in your fabric selection. Typically a chair bottom is 20 to 22 inches across at the widest point. Most tone fabrics are 54 inches.Read More
- A yard of fabric is 36 inches so to create a perfect square and that's what we're trying to do you need to tack on another 18 inches with which is another half of yard which gives us 54 inches. So now we have 54 inches here of course 54 inches across the bottom and 54 inches. On this side. You can divide that into four perfect squares of 27 inches and this is plenty of fabric to cover your chairs now say well. I have more than four chairs. You just need to tack on another 27 inches per chair. So this takes us up to two and a quarter yards now if you have eight chairs you would just add another 27 inches on so a yard and a half plus a yard and a half gives us three yards. Now the exception is if you're trying to put a specific pattern or a medallion right in the center of each chair. That's when you'll probably need the person that's cutting the fabric for you to help you determine what's called a repeat so that it'll line up every time in the same spot. But typically 27 inches is plenty of fabric to recover your chairs. Easiest way that I have found to create your 27 inch squares is your fabric.Read More
- Of course is 54 inches. You just want to fold it in half and that's going to be our first cut and create a little crease. You just want to follow down that crease and remember it doesn't have to be perfect because you're not going to see this edge anyway. So now you have two pieces. You just want to take that half of fabric and fold it back on itself. Now. I have more than 27 inches of fabric. I can tell so what I'm going to do is just mark the 27 inches and then. I'm just going to cut created my perfect 27 inch square do that for the other side as well for the second half lay one of your perfect 27 inch squares on top that you've already created and I had a little excess. Now you can just cut all that excess off because you won't need that and just make sure you cut this piece that was folded in half cut along that line. I have my four perfect squares you just want to remove your chair bottom. Most chairs have about four screws put your screws to the side. We're going to reuse this dust cover so you want to remove all staples using a butter knife. I know mine is a little beat up but I'm still going to reuse it.Read More
- It just makes it look better on the bottom you'll put that to the side. I'm going to remove my old fabric simply because I don't want the bulk and that was what was underneath yuck. You want to position your fabric right where you want it right. There looks great flip your cushion over put one staple to one side and another staple on the other side. Just one staple let's flip. It over again to make sure that our pattern is still in the right position. Now you're going to go ahead and secure it across the bottom. You're going to add maybe about three or four staples here just so your fabric doesn't slide around and secure one side. Only this will ensure that your fabric does not move around on you one. More check looks great now the side that only had the single staple let's remove that and now you can give it a really good tug so that it's tight once you've established how tight you want. It go ahead and secure that side as well.Read More
- Hammer any staples if necessary. Now we can go ahead and put more staples across the bottom but we'll leave the top undone for now and now for the corners. We're going to create what I call the necktie but first you have to cut a smiley face. A smiley face helps you to prevent having a lot of bulk when you're trying to fold your corners down you'll do that to one side check your fabric to make sure you still have enough and then you're going to cut a smiley face on the other side. Now once you see that your smiley faces are in place. You'll go ahead and staple the inside down if you have any slack you can go ahead and give it a nice tug apply your staples to make sure that that area is secure now to make that necktie you're going to fold one corner kind of like a corner. You would create for a bed sheet and then fold the other corner and what this does is give you leverage to pull those corners nice and tight and once you get your necktie just right. Then you'll go ahead and add staples. Three should do the trick oh that looks great. You can go ahead and secure the top and pull it tight add you a couple of staples and you'll do those corners in the same fashion. I have all of my neckties. Let's go ahead and trim them off once you've trimmed them. Let's add some more staples now let's reuse that dust cover staple it back down hammer. Any staples that might be sticking up and you're good to go find the holes from your previous screws using your scissors and let's reattach yay and now you're done.Read More
- So let's have a seat oh but wait. We have more chairs to do. I absolutely love how my chairs came out and I still love how my chairs turned out. This is my tried and true method and I wouldn't change a thing. If you're returning or this is your first time on my channel. I just want to say a big welcome and make sure to turn on that notification bell to see all my new content. If you have any questions or comments make sure to leave them down below and until the next video you.Read More