Chairs.

May 25, 2011 7 Comments
  This post was supposed to go live about two weeks ago, right after the Dinning Room post, but then Blogger crashed… and the post was deleted… so here it is – almost two weeks later…

Now that you have seen my dinning room, I want to show you how I upholstered the chairs. The truth is that we have been sitting on hard chairs with no cushions for a few months… I decided to finally do something about it and this is what I did:

In case you forgot, our chairs began like this.
I took Ross’s hammer and carefully pried the wooden seat off of the chair. I made sure to leave the little nails in the wooden seat throughout this entire process.

I took foam (bought from JoAnn’s) and traced around the wooden seat.
Then cut the foam.

Then I traced around the wooden seat adding about 4 inches around the seat (that way you will have plenty of fabric for covering the foam and the seat.).

Layer fabric, foam then the wooden piece.

I stapled the center of one side then the center of the opposite sides until all four sides were stapled, leaving the corners open. Pull tight, but not too tight or else it will cause ripples in the cushion – and that’s not cute. (Confused? See next pic)

I staple in this order:
Make sure to leave the corners out like this:

See?

For the corners, I pull the fabric to one of the sides:

Then pull back to the center, making sure the fabric is folded nicely and staple very well.

Then you have a pretty corner and a newly upholstered cushion!

See the little nails that are poking through the fabric? Line then back up with the nail holes in the chair.

And hammer that puppy back down! Then…

You’re Done!
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Comments

  1. Bec@littlelucylu says:
    May 25, 2011 at 1:53 pm

    LOVE that fabric with the color of the chairs!
    Awesome!!!
    ~Bec :-)

  2. alison says:
    May 25, 2011 at 3:32 pm

    your chairs look fabulous! i've got a few of my own that i need to recover…i'm going to use drop cloths i think…thanks for the tips!

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  5. Lisa Johnson says:
    May 26, 2011 at 2:23 am

    Precious, Natalie! Ok, so now I need to find chairs. I am on the hunt on the side of the road. ;-)

  6. Jenny says:
    May 30, 2011 at 6:32 pm

    Natalie these are awesome! Did you refinish the chairs yourself, too?
    Jenny
    seaminglysmitten.blogspot.com

  7. Natalie @ Johnny In A Dress says:
    May 30, 2011 at 9:19 pm

    Thanks Everyone! And Jenny, Yes I did! Here is the link to that post http://johnnyinadress.blogspot.com/2011/01/little-distressing-how-to.html

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