How to Reupholster a Chair at Home

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How to Reupholster a Chair at Home

• Nicholes Ammons

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Why Reupholster Furniture?

• Furniture made in the olden days was found to be
  more sturdy and attractive.
• These cost a lot more now.
• Therefore, you can simply reupholster your old
  furniture sets to make them look new
• Reupholstering includes repairing and
  redesigning a piece of furniture.

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Introduction

• We had a chair that belonged to my grandfather.
• It was all worn out, yet quite strong. This is
  when I got it reupholstered!
• You too can do it yourself or call a professional
  to do it for you!

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Equipments required for upholster

• These equipments would make your work easy

• The chair
• Staple gun
• Screwdriver
• Foam (chair-specific)
• A pair of scissors

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Get the worn out chair

• Get the chair and turn it over.
• Keep this chair on a raised platform so that you
  have clear view of its bottom.

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Gather the Required Fabric

• Gather your favorite color fabric that you want
  to upholstery.
• For long lasting fabric, it is recommended to get
  upholstery grade fabric.

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Try to find screws on Chair

• Find out exact number of screws that are fastened
  with the frame of the chair and the seat.
• Remove all screws one by one with the help of the
  screwdriver. Remove frame of chair aside so that
  you will get more space to work on seat.

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Use Of Favorite Fabric

• Put your fabric on the floor with the designer
  side facing down
• If you feel that you have to replace the foam as
  well in your old chair, you would need to remove
  the staples from the chair seat.

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Replace the Old Worn out foam

• Then place your chair seat on the new foam with
  which you want to replace the worn out foam.
• Cut Fabric according to shape of the chair seat
  with two or three inches extra in the fabric that
  you cut.

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Place new foam and Other Material

• Place the foam or other material you want to use
  on the flat side of the seat and staple it with a
  staple gun.
• Staple fabric in such a way that the decorative
  side faces down.

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Fine tune your job

• To avoid loose end fine tune all your work .
• In this way the middle as well as the edges
  should be secured.
• Chair have enough staples so that the foam or the
  fabric does not come out easily.

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Put the chair seat back on the frame

• Put the chair seat that was kept aside back on
  the frame
• Accomplish it by tightening the screws.

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To Conclude with
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Reference

• http//www.instructables.com/id/How-To-Reupholster
  -A-Chair-1/
• http//www.finewoodworking.com/item/118860/how-to-
  reupholster-a-chair-at-home
• https//www.youtube.com/watch?vS3e6EMaYi4k
• http//www.austinfurniturerepair.org/
• https//www.youtube.com/watch?vu4fQHcQWFGg
• http//www.wikihow.com/Reupholster-a-Chair
• http//www.design-char.com/how-choose-right-uphols
  tery-fabric

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