Upholstery for Beginners

If you lot possess got e'er read my “About Me” hence you lot know that I’m a self-taught DIYer, crafter, photographer… exactly close everything! When I demand to practise something… I exactly try! That’s why I’m sharing this quick Upholstery for Beginners post. I thought, maybe if this was my outset fourth dimension trying upholstery, at that topographic point must be someone else who hasn’t tried! 

At the Create With Me party final month, YOU voted for me to purpose leather or mistaken leather inwards a projection (come dorsum Mon to vote over again for side past times side month!). Since I had a vintage chair that I was screaming for a makeover, I decided to purpose leather on it! Truth endure told… I belike would’ve tried to purpose anything you lot voted for on that chair! lol.

Materials:

Faux leather or vinyl

Fabric scissors

Staple gun

Staple

Chair amongst cushion

Upholstery for Beginners: Quick Tips

Here’s the chair nosotros started amongst ^^. I was drawn to it correct away because of the frame together with the vintage feel. The cloth had to go. If you lot desire to attempt a outset upholstery project, notice a slice similar this at your local thrift store! One cushion. Easy foursquare shape.  Thin. This is definitely the house to start!

I decided non to possess got off my previous fabric. I was a rattling sparse layer, together with didn’t possess got a foreign texture to it, hence I figured it would all the same hold off fine together with endure comfortable. This also helped me continue the cushion base of operations together with padding inwards house without whatever extra travail – if you lot take the outer fabric, brand certain to salve these! If you lot did take the former upholstery (with pliers or a staple remover), continue that slice together with purpose it every bit a template to cutting out the novel fabric. Since nosotros didn’t, nosotros but pose our cushion on overstep of the cloth together with cutting the cloth the gauge shape, making certain to possess got plenty of a border to become upward the sides of the cushion, together with possess got a yoke inches folded onto the back.

We started past times grabbing i corner, folding it upward towards the centre of the seat, together with stapling it inwards place.

Then nosotros worked on i side at a time, pulling it upwards, together with keeping it tight hence that at that topographic point were no ridges or bumps along the border of our cushion. Staple it inwards house together with practise the other side of the corner. If you lot desire pleats (on a dining room chair perhaps?) exactly plication the cloth the agency you lot desire earlier stapling.

As you lot work, you’ll possess got to continue checking the overstep of your seat, to brand certain at that topographic point aren’t whatever ridges forming. Pull tight all the agency around together with staple inwards place. Out outset corner looked pretty rough, but they gradually improved. Practice makes perfect right! You exactly desire to brand certain everything is pulled tight, together with non likewise bulky underneath.

Finally, add together some cardboard tack on the bottom to reinforce everything. Can’t fifty-fifty meet my errors now! I spray painted the chair amongst a gloss dark pigment earlier adding the novel cushion to freshen everything up.

This actually was the best projection to start upholstery with. I’m cook to tackle the ugly former chair inwards the basement now! Well… maybe.

How did your outset upholstery task go? I bet it was harder than this one!

Monday I demand YOU to part your leather projects at the Create amongst Me party! I can’t hold off to meet what you’ve made!

Plus you lot tin vote on what I’m creating amongst side past times side month.

VOTE HERE!