cville! Did you redo your dining room chairs?

[sequins]

Can you tell me how you did it? Steps etc? cville

Thanks!

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If anyone else has done it, you're welcome to share your experience as well!!

[cville]

I did! And I was the one with 100 staples per chair.

These were cheap IKEA chairs--foam pad on a board so I didn't have to deal with batting.

I just popped them off, removed the covers (after awhile I just removed a couple staples and cut the damn things off) and then stapled on the new covers. You need some sort of staple remover tool (ask at a hardware store) to get the staples out, and an electric staple gun will totally save your arm.

I used a removed cover as my pattern for the new ones. I used indoor/outdoor fabric AND sprayed the cut out covers with scotchguard before stapling them on since I have messy children.

I had a super geometric print so I was a fanatic about making them match exactly. Don't get a geometric print if you don't want to drive your perfectionist self insane.

You might have to redo one chair if things get askew or if you haven't pulled the fabric taut enough (or too tight). You want it shipshape and springy, but if you pull too hard it makes the fabric get all stretched out and wonky.

Whatever you estimate or see estimated in terms of time, double it. Takes forevah. Like a full day. But every time I go into my dining room I'm so happy I did it.

[cville]

Oh, and you want home decor fabric. If you use cotton quilting or whatever it will wear too quickly and show pulls between staples more.

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Jul 28, 2015 18:32:59 GMT -5 cville said:

I did! And I was the one with 100 staples per chair.

These were cheap IKEA chairs--foam pad on a board so I didn't have to deal with batting.

I just popped them off, removed the covers (after awhile I just removed a couple staples and cut the damn things off) and then stapled on the new covers. You need some sort of staple remover tool (ask at a hardware store) to get the staples out, and an electric staple gun will totally save your arm.

I used a removed cover as my pattern for the new ones. I used indoor/outdoor fabric AND sprayed the cut out covers with scotchguard before stapling them on since I have messy children.

I had a super geometric print so I was a fanatic about making them match exactly. Don't get a geometric print if you don't want to drive your perfectionist self insane.

You might have to redo one chair if things get askew or if you haven't pulled the fabric taut enough (or too tight). You want it shipshape and springy, but if you pull too hard it makes the fabric get all stretched out and wonky.

Whatever you estimate or see estimated in terms of time, double it. Takes forevah. Like a full day. But every time I go into my dining room I'm so happy I did it.

I was really excited to do this till I realized I have tufted backs. My extremely non-craft self cannot do tufting  I'll try to see if I can get rid of the tufting.



Can you pip your finished chairs (when you're not breaking your head about daycare? ) 

Also. I'll laugh forever at the blogger who said this would take an hour max, lol.

[cville]

I think you need upholstery tools to do tufting properly. Maybe not?

Here are my chairs. I probably spent 6? total hours? I can't remember exactly. Including all the removal and cutting out the new covers.

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Jul 27, 2015 20:08:17 GMT -5 RamblingRose said:

Jul 27, 2015 19:34:00 GMT -5 sequins said:

Can you tell me how you did it? Steps etc? cville

Thanks!

You mean change the fabric on the seats? It's super easy, especially if you get a good quality electric staple gun.
This is a pretty good tutorial.

You seem knowledgeable. Can you tell me if I can get rid of tufting and turn it into a regular chair?

My chairs look like this 

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Jul 28, 2015 18:45:35 GMT -5 cville said:

I think you need upholstery tools to do tufting properly. Maybe not?

Here are my chairs. I probably spent 6? total hours? I can't remember exactly. Including all the removal and cutting out the new covers.

Wow! That looks really nice. 

[cville]

Jul 28, 2015 18:48:25 GMT -5 sequins said:

Jul 28, 2015 18:45:35 GMT -5 cville said:

I think you need upholstery tools to do tufting properly. Maybe not?

Here are my chairs. I probably spent 6? total hours? I can't remember exactly. Including all the removal and cutting out the new covers.

Wow! That looks really nice. 

Thanks!

[ohiowan]

fabric and the batting cost roughly 30, but I only have two chairs and bought enough to do four. Removed the cushion and took off the fabric, cut the batting and new fabric using the old fabric as a pattern, and then stapled them on together. When you staple it on, staple opposites each time. So if you put one staple on the right side, put one staple in the left side, then the one on top, one on the bottom etc. it took about an hour to do two.