If your old chair does not fit into new interior of the apartment after repair, do not hurry to leave usual thing. If desired and ability make you can change completely old furniture, having inhaled in it new life. One of the most effective ways to remake chair is to draw its new upholstery fabric or skin, depending on requirements of the existing registration of the room and your taste.
It is required to you
- - Upholstery fabric;
- - tools for mounting and dismantling of chair;
- - centimeter;
- - paper, pencil and scissors for pattern;
- - threads and needle;
- - sewing machine;
- - vegetable oil, lining and glue for skin, the sewing hammer (if necessary)
Instruction
1. Prepare suitable upholstery fabric for chair. Precisely to calculate necessary amount of material, it is necessary to remove carefully old upholstery from furniture and to make new pattern on its basis. Dismantling product, try not to damage its wooden parts. Separate from seat armrests, then – back. Having unbent furniture brackets, "undress" chair.
2. Spread out old upholstery on floor and carefully consider exterior of future updated chair. If you are sure of the amateur skill, then can think up interesting combination from cloths of different color gamma. For example, to use the scrappy equipment, to combine linen upholstery with genuine or imitation leather, to use woven picture (tapestry) for registration of the central part of back. At last (if it allows the existing interior), it is possible to sheathe completely upholstered furniture genuine leather – it in root will change product.
3. Make necessary measurements. If you have stopped the choice on the scrappy equipment with use of genuine leather, or have decided to make chair completely leather, then make material reserve. Leather can be bought from furriers in the form of variegated rags (or the cut sewed from pieces) with natural roughnesses and roughnesses, deviations from the main coloring.
4. Draw pattern of new upholstery for your chair from paper (it is possible to use old newspapers) and check its accuracy. Cutting out parts from working cloth, do not forget to leave podgibka 1.5-2 cm wide on edge. Process all edges on the sewing machine (if the structure of cloth allows) or manually concealed joint.
5. Carefully work with genuine leather! It is extremely whimsical, and you risk to spoil expensive material. Making "clothes" for chair of leather, adhere to some recommendations: - place emphasis on the accuracy of pattern and work especially accurately as to remake at you it will not turn out – on skin there will be holes from needle; - use special lining for leather products; - during operating time do not fix leather cloth by pins, it is better to use adhesive tape; - doing line on the sewing machine, oil working surface of skin sunflower; - do not sew allowances, and tap the hammer and paste them to inner side of leather upholstery special glue.
6. Draw chair in such sequence: inside of handles and back, seat, all external parts of product. Fix cloth by the furniture stapler. At last, establish into place all components of the updated chair.