A New Chair

I've always wanted to learn how to re-upholster furniture. There is just something so cool about turning something old into something new again.  My husband's grandmother had an old worn out chair that I saved from a garage sale with the intention of making new again with a little reupholstery. However, when I finally got around to picking out fabric and getting down to it (2 years later), I realized I was in over my head. So, I took it to a professional. In turned out pretty good!

         BEFORE

AFTER

I worked up some confidence to tackle a less challenging chair for my first re-upholstery project. I'm telling you, anyone can do it. Here's my step-by-step tutorial for completing a simple chair upholstery project. 

I needed a new chair to use for my desk/work station. I went to an antique store and found something I thought I could easily tackle.  And at just $16, I knew if I screwed it up, I wouldn't be too upset about it. 

Here's a couple of before pictures of the chair I found. 

Isn't the floral fabric cute! (sarcasm). We sent my in-laws the before and after pictures and my father in law thought the before picture was the finished chair! ha!

The first step was to remove the seat from the chair by unscrewing it from the bottom.

Next, I sanded down the chair

I used two cans of spray paint to brighten up the chair. And then used 3/4 yard of fabric to cover the chair, stapling it to the bottom of the chair. I ended up stapling right over the existing fabric as the cushion of the chair was still in fairly good condition.  I gathered the fabric at the corners to make them as smooth as possible. See pictures below.

The final step was to screw the bottom back onto the chair

And here's the final picture! 

Thanks for stopping by my first blog post! I hope to share more creative projects and stories in future blog posts!

Jill