Furniture reupholstery

Learn how to reupholster a chair in just 5 easy steps and turn that old chair into a custom piece of furniture you are sure to love. This detailed tutorial will go through all 5 steps and includes before and after pictures!

Do you want to update that boring, battered chair? See the step-by-step process of how to reupholster a chair.

With basic sewing skills, you can master these common upholstery techniques.

Our next video in this Chair Project series addresses making and attaching decorative piping.

This post was written in collaboration with Zibra Brushes but all thoughts and opinions are my own.Have you ever painted upholstery fabric before? I tried it fo…

Do you have outdated or ugly dining chairs that could stand to be recovered? Let me show you how you can easily reupholster your dining chair seats in a couple of hours with this tutorial! This is a project anyone can do!

In my upholstering experience I have tackled a number of arm-chairs, several stools, a couple of headboards, and now most recently, a...

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Tips & Tricks to reupholster a victorian style wingback chair. Chair reupholstery can be a lot more work than needed, it doesn't have to be.

This is where we left off… I talked about the soda blasting process and how I deconstructed this chair, in this previous post. I was so happy with the chair and how it was looking, all deconstructed! It was still a little too yellowy for my taste and I wanted to give it more of

I’ve recently started doing my own upholstery, but since I’m a beginner I need to start acquiring the proper upholstery tools to do the job right. My small collection of vintage upholstered furniture has great lines and awesome construction, but my five cats have found such furniture to be their favorite scratching surfaces.

DIY Upholstery Tutorial: How to reupholster a chair - from the deconstruction process to choosing materials, attaching fabric, making decorative piping, and constructing a no-sew upholstered cushion. Video series walks through the entire process of reupholstering a vintage chair from Facebook Marketplace. Follow along at www.hymnsandhome.com or Instagram @hymnsandhome

Reupholster chair guide

This chair was spotted in the free section on Craigslist, and listed as the “Attack Cat Chair.” Apparently, the owner couldn’t bear junking it, and Cat (yep, that’s her name too) was happy to take it on as a project. Cat used discounted remnants to reupholster the 1961 chair. It was more complicated to work on than she expected (especially when it came to the tufted back and buttons) but she made it through!

Have you ever wanted to know the basics of upholstering a chair? Today, I will to continue showing you the upholstery basics used on this Victorian chair!