Re-covered dining room chairs (2016)
September 5, 2016 - No Comments
This is a little different than my usual projects — I bought the upholstery fabric, and then tore the dining room chair seats down to wood, rebuilding them with modern stuffing and covering and the new upholstery.
Someday, I’d like to have my own hand-woven fabric on my dining room chairs, but the suggestion is that upholstery fabric should be woven at 60epi. That’s kind of daunting. So, hopefully I’ll get there, and in the meantime, this upholstery fabric has to last 🙂
Master chair, re-covered
Master chair, re-covered
Re-covered set!
Re-covered set!
Closer look at re-covered chairs
Beauty shot of the first re-covered chair
First re-covered chair and one not yet done
One re-covered chair among the rest a-waiting
First chair -- upended and ready to take out the 4 screws holding the seat on
Seat panel
Corner finishing detail of original covering
Close up of original fabric
Original seat fabric
Finishing detail of original work
Under original fabric -- naugahyde!
Fabric was glued to the naugahyde covering
Naugahyde was separately stapled into the seat -- probably *the* original covering.
Closeup of naugahyde attachment.
Paper straw was the "stuffing" on top of the wooden plank seat
Paper straw "stuffing"
Seat plank
Between the paper straw and the naugahyde -- mystery stuffing
Between the paper straw and the naugahyde -- mystery stuffing
Between the paper straw and the naugahyde -- mystery stuffing
Placing the new fabric to centre the design
Taking on the thin quilt batting -- in place of the naugahyde :^)
Stapled down corner
Comparative study -- seat board for one of the 5 regular seats, on the master chair
Closeup comparative of the seatboard from a regular chair on the seat of the master chair
Front of packaging of the thin quilt batting I used
Back of the packaging of the thin quilt batting I used
Stuffing I used
The package from the individual non-foam pieces I placed directly onto the wood seat board
Templates -- the plastic one has the tracing of the fabric pattern so I could centre it for cutting out remaining chairs
Notes on the paper template
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