Thankfully, I am going to dedicate this year's nablopomo to work on those projects, or show the projects I have successfully finished within this last year. Hopefully I have enough to cover 30 days, or at least most of it.
Today I will start to show how I reupholstered the side chair of the guestroom.
This is a chair that we bought in Crate&Barrel that we liked because the color made sense with our living room and it was comfortable. Unfortunately, the color became a disadvantage for us and we stopped liking it and ever since the chair started to go from room to room. The chair's final room is our guest room on our new house. we don't hated there but we don't love it. it is way too blah.
I decided to give it a new life by reupholstering it. Now, I have done this before but it has never done in a big scale and for me this one is. The top part of this chair has fabric in the back as well. I tried to figure out how to detach the top part but was unable to do it. I tried to see if there was enough wood that could sustain staples but I just couldn't figure out how. That part of the project was a big fail, however, that did not change the will to remodel the chair for me.
I decided to give it a new life by reupholstering it. Now, I have done this before but it has never done in a big scale and for me this one is. The top part of this chair has fabric in the back as well. I tried to figure out how to detach the top part but was unable to do it. I tried to see if there was enough wood that could sustain staples but I just couldn't figure out how. That part of the project was a big fail, however, that did not change the will to remodel the chair for me.
I had bought this fabric to bring color to the room. The walls are pastel green and I got a quilt that has white and green on it. In order to break the color from a blah bedroom I decided that red coral-ish would work as a block color and bring a bit of life to the room.
My husband and children thought that it would be too much so I went with the back of the fabric.
First, I detach the bottom of the chair from the chair, then I cut the fabric big enough to cover the bottom of the chair.
As you see in the picture, I adhered the fabric with sewing pins. This is actually the first time I do this, because this fabric has a pattern that needs to be straight and since I have to work with the bottom upside down I would not be able to control whether it is straight or not.
Once I pinned the fabric and the bottom of the chair is upside down, I decided to pin the fabric on this side as well before I staple it.
I noticed there were parts where I knew I could cut more fabric so I did.
I folded the fabric and started putting pins to hold the fabric in.
Once it was pinned down I started stapling the fabric. The key is to pull steady but not too hard, since you do not want to make the chair cushion to get hard and probably uncomfortable.
Don't be afraid of readjusting staples if the fabric doe not look good or need more stretch.
These are the materials I used.
Voila!!! The chair is done, and It looks better. So I am happy!
In retrospect, the fabric does not need to be folded, and that way it makes it easier on putting the staples in.
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