Is your home stacked with one or two worn out chairs? If yes, there is no reason to worry as you can easily bring them back to life and shine. You just have to reupholster those chairs. Upholstery repair will not only give a new look to your drawing or living room, but also save you from that unnecessary expenditure of buying new sets of chairs or other pieces of furniture to replace those worn out pieces.

1. How to Reupholster
a Chair at Home
Nicholes Ammons

2. Why Reupholster Furniture?
 Furniture made in the olden days was found to
be more sturdy and attractive.
 These cost a lot more now.
 Therefore, you can simply reupholster your old
furniture sets to make them look new
 Reupholstering includes repairing and
redesigning a piece of furniture.

3. Introduction
We had a chair that belonged to my grandfather.
It was all worn out, yet quite strong. This is when I
got it reupholstered!
You too can do it yourself or call a professional to do
it for you!

4. Equipment’s required for upholster
These equipment’s would make your
work easy
 The chair
 Staple gun
 Screwdriver
 Foam (chair-specific)
 A pair of scissors

5. Get the worn out chair
 Get the chair and turn it over.
 Keep this chair on a raised platform so that you
have clear view of its bottom.

6. Gather the Required Fabric
 Gather your favorite color fabric that you want
to upholstery.
 For long lasting fabric, it is recommended to get
“upholstery grade” fabric.

7. Try to find screws on Chair
 Find out exact number of screws that are fastened
with the frame of the chair and the seat.
 Remove all screws one by one with the help of the
screwdriver. Remove frame of chair aside so that
you will get more space to work on seat.

8. Use Of Favorite Fabric
 Put your fabric on the floor with the designer side
facing down
 If you feel that you have to replace the foam as
well in your old chair, you would need to remove
the staples from the chair seat.

9. Replace the Old Worn out foam
 Then place your chair seat on the new foam with
which you want to replace the worn out foam.
 Cut Fabric according to shape of the chair seat
with two or three inches extra in the fabric that
you cut.

10. Place new foam and Other Material
 Place the foam or other material you want to use
on the flat side of the seat and staple it with a
staple gun.
 Staple fabric in such a way that the decorative
side faces down.

11. Fine tune your job
 To avoid loose end fine tune all your work .
 In this way the middle as well as the edges should
be secured.
 Chair have enough staples so that the foam or the
fabric does not come out easily.

12. Put the chair seat back on the frame
 Put the chair seat that was kept aside back on
the frame
 Accomplish it by tightening the screws.

13. To Conclude with…

14. Reference
 http://www.instructables.com/id/How-To-Reupholster-A-Chair-1/
 http://www.finewoodworking.com/item/118860/how-to-reupholster-
a-chair-at-home
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3e6EMaYi4k
 http://www.austinfurniturerepair.org/
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4fQHcQWFGg
 http://www.wikihow.com/Reupholster-a-Chair
 http://www.design-char.com/how-choose-right-upholstery-fabric

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in watching this presentation.
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