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is your favorite chair old and filthy? Then you need reupholsteryplex!
it will make your furniture mega, mega, mega new!
we found some gorgeous carved wooden chairs on the side of the road and
decided to reupholster the cushions
to remove the cushion I simply
turned the chair upside down and unscrewed
the three screws holding it in to the frame
and then I popped off
the top. Removing the fabric is probably the toughest
part of reupholstery even though it's a cushion it does have a lot of tacks in it
so what you want to do is wear gloves
and use a flathead screwdriver to pull up
the old tacks. Also a pair of pliers is good for this
type of work. I actually had to stand on
the cushion
to get the fabric off to get enough leverage.
I'm going to reuse the fabric
but first of course I'm going to wash it thoroughly and bleach it out.
I'll use it on the inside of the cushion to hold in the batting.
Since I didn't have enough fabric from the old couch all in one large sheet
I'll have to piece it together
I want to trace a line
because the front of the frame has a strange curved design
so I want to make sure that the
cushion on top follows the same design of the frame
so now I want to pin the front
of the cushion fabric together with the top of the cushion fabric
I'm just going to
make sure that
it is given a
slight over hang
So I will pin it from the top
make sure it is even on both sides
and you see the marker line
that I have already drawn in, that is where I will sew it
directly on that line
and it will make a nice seam that will follow the pattern of the frame.
okay so now I have sewn in
the markered line
and as you can see it follows
the design pretty well and now I'm going to show you how I sewed in
the sides
I didn't want to sew it together at the top
because that created a lot of problems
So just remember to leave a little flap at the top so they aren't sewn together where they shouldn't be.
I stapled the white
fabric to the top of the frame and stapled it all around the rubber supports
so now it's ready to hold in the batting
now that I have the white
fabric to hold in the batting I'm going to put
in the cushion cover
I sewed in a front piece, side pieces,
and a back piece.
I want to make sure that the edge of the seam
aligns perfectly with
the top of the frame before stapling it in
I don't want to staple it in crooked.
Somehow the footage of me inserting the batting got lost
so I'll give a brief demonstration.
I left the back unstapled
I left that open so that it could insert the batting and then with the yard
stick I would push the batting up in to the corners
and smooth it out
and just did one line at a time
until
it looked pretty even
and full. To finish up the back,
I tried to pull the material as tight as possible
and stapled it in
Then all that is left to do is just to attach the cushion to the chair
Here is a picture of the finished product
I don't think it took too much effort
and now I will have something to keep for many years until it is my turn to set it out on the curb