How to Upholster a Chair -Simple and Easy! | TAOutdoors

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In this episode Graeme shows you a simple and easy way to upholster a chair. Or in this case, he is re-upholstering Mike's dining room chair set. You can save money upholstering chairs yourself and it can be very satisfying when completed. We hope you enjoy the video and be sure to check out our other video playlists below:

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welcome to the totally awesome outdoor show this is a DIY section I'm going to tell you people out there how to up holster your chair pets now you can go through an upholstered of course you can get them done professionally I've been for years and years and years i'll probably have hundreds of it when I have my furniture shops sit in there part of the time cover them it is not difficult in fact i'm finding quite therapeutic well because you save the money here is a chair pad remove from the chair a regular dining chair I've already removed this but i want to show you how to do it the easy way now let's turn over that obviously was joined to the chair code you have foam underneath and you're going to have a fold this could be a wooden frame around here on the older chairs or modern ones like this it's like chipboard yeah it's not great stuff now what I would normally do with the wood one is i would use either a screwdriver or a given up or breville and I would hit here tap away like this go under either tax or staples lift it all up and then pull them all out however most of the time you won't be working with wood you'll be covering over this chipboard or MDF now if you hit this hard on the edge like this try to get those staples up you probably will end up breaking away this chipboard here and then you've got a rough edge you don't want this so the way I do it and this one is a fairly important one because just be fitted with staple guns i'm done with it at a factory with a staple gun you want to i've already done this I'm just trying to get it to show you it would be joined like that ordinarily be really tempted to bang all those staples out it's time consuming and you might chunk out get yourself I think they call them a box cutter in America we call them just a regular cutting blade like that they are sharp do be careful with these I have cut myself I have been to the hospital and the injection to stitch you up is more painful for the cut so be very very careful cut away from you do not cut and your legs perfectly do this on a bench I'm only doing it just to show you how it should be done I cut along as close as I can like that to the staples you cut right through there all the way through there if you go all around the edge you can fold it back easy peasy ler fold it off and you haven't damaged the foam underneath like this so there you are you get rid of your own staying covering which is what you want to replace and you're going to think oh how am I going to recover that with a new stuff now years ago I used to use just Audrey curtain II for covering the chairs because I was just selling them so I used any basically anything like you get home girl I've got hold of some nice material here we're going to show you how to cut it but a little tip is when you do this upholstery you're going to be placing it over there like this you're obviously you're going to be pulling it tight you don't need to iron it really but what you should do if you have something like a Regency strive or any sort of vertical pattern when you pull it tight like this you'll see the fibers start to curl away so if you pull too tight one side our not tight enough you're going to have a wavy pattern so my suggestion if you're covering chairs and you're not really tied to a color pattern or color code in your house a fashion thing just use plain because then it's more forgiving for that stretching you don't quite see the pattern move so much this is how I measure it up okay lay your material down in this case it's a sort of universal one is the same both sides you might have a material this and got an inside and outside so obviously the inside is going to go like here you should be able to get two cuts and two pads out this one I'll get my pad as you can see here I'm going to turn it upside down you do not want to disturb you might have kpop the old fashioned kapok here packing or like this foam the foam is much easier to work with has already been pre-shaped and precap so you're going to turn it over like this I've actually marked each chair which it comes out of so for that i put the front that's the front of the chair f3 the chair up on the other side of the room which you never seen it i've got f3 so I know each pad comes out the same now you want to allow enough to come over by about half inch over the staples that you've got in there like that and the same all the way around don't just do it one side because when you cut too tight here thinking you'll stretch it it might be a little bit sure so just allow yourself

little bit more than you want because you can always cut it back as you can see if i put it bang in the middle there and I fold this over this you'll see just about this one half meter of material I'm actually the bear I'm going to be able to cover two pads out of one piece 18 inches wide son get the scissors sharp pair of scissors and you can judge their say two inches outside just check it again two inches their side make sure it's all nice and straight and I'm going to run the scissors exactly alone like that don't force the scissors just work using the very throat of the scissor and you want sharp scissors what don't think you'll get a very good edge not that you need a good edge it's just a neat way of doing it if you use a box cutter or Stanley blade and don't look you couldn't understand it right on that because you're going to cut through your carpet underneath all this I would ordinarily be doing on a workbench I'm just doing it here because we've got better lighting for the camera now problem people do make is they leave the original covering on and then they just stretch yourself because it's a lazy way of doing it they stretch it a force it over the existing covering and then they got a double the corners over well you shouldn't do that because then when you go to hammer it in you're going to force the joints of the chair apart and you're going to have the loose joints so always take away the old material and put on the new so that's dead easier than that so I'm all central there what I do first is just pull this over here and I'm going to run some tax no I don't have a staple gun if you have staple guns you could probably do it with that I'm going to learn Rohit axle on here what texts i'm gonna be using you ask this is only chick ball so i can get away with using small tax thing gets and i'll show you I used to call these gimp pins with actually call them text now you're a very very small tech what do they call or we'll have a look so some people sort of fanatic about what size they are called they are cut tax fine 10 millimeters 38 or one inch which I do like to hear because it's still in inches now i'm going to be using a regular old school old fashioned tack hammer which i probably have for 50 years now you'll notice it's got a tape the back if you have a small length like this that shorter than the width of your fingers and you try and hammer it in yes you're going to hit your fingers aren't you so these are specifically designed to start those first few taps through the center and then you can release it turn it over to finish it just like this or just take a bit of tension on them on the material I'm coming over where I've stapled it or just pinching it there's a flat end of that how am I going in there look take it away that's the first one I'm going to continue that and put a row along here right so I've run a row attacks along here you can put these texts even closer than that if you want but this is a good chair that's got a support here that would actually pinch that as well now I've already pulled this one tie and if you come up like this this is the one you want to pull tight over here you can imagine if there was a straight line here like a Regency stripe you have to pull this very evenly to make sure the stripe is straight in this case just with a bland single color like this a single tone it's much easier so I just get my nose screwed up like this and I'm going to go quite hard lay it down you can see it's lovely and talk lovely i'm tight fold it over keep it tight just get one of the attacks now what you want to do this last section is to keep let's get that in nice even pressure pressure keep moving it over like that and keep it constant pressure on there just finish these off there you can see it's nice and smooth it's lovely on time now the way I do it is to do the corners is the joint of the chairs going to slot in there the main up I support so I do this first I'm not interested whether this is the right way to do it I've done this for 40 years with hundreds of these and I'm telling you this is just my way of doing it I'm going to pull this over there you can see it tuck in there but they're not going to be left with absolutely loads of folder which might live to join up so what I do is this this is how I do it I want to right angle coming along here i'm going to show you along this line here easy if i show you as i'll cut it I cut down can't want to overcook it so it's level yes they're all right so you can see I've cut there I then fold the other side over I'm going to want to cut down there I've left left itself like loads of material here all now they wouldn't keep this much material there we go take your time going down now you can see I've just got a little a couple of bits of tag NZ I want to lose all of this so I cut all on looking for look is enough to pull over there so I'm going to cut to where my thumb is here what going to cut down there I'm going to cut stretching it a little bit down there so I've got rid of a huge amount of wastage there I'm going to pull the corner in first just covering over that staple put the tack hammer there just so I can get a bit of tension on it now that he's nice and tight in there now what do i do is i just got a little folder i don't use it outside edge because it could come unraveled it i just put a little role in it like that put it very very very tight as hard as i can on my fingers i'm going to come down over the top there in goes the tack the same here I don't want to leave it like that I don't leave it already I just put one fold in it nice until I put it right across there in goes the other tech now you might have text going along here so you'll have to move around here finding where the gap to get into the wood chip board or MDS ok so that's basically it I'm going to do the other corners ok you can see there I've got all the corners nicely done but you've got this big surplus there you could cut off with scissors I'm just going to use the blade here if you've got an old blade you go oh god they're all blunt if you've got yourself a whetstone you can actually sharpen these blades up just another way of saving money so there we go keep your fingers away be careful and just bring it on a nice pull straight down there just outside the tax not too close all the way there and you can just come across the doubled up bit there let's go through vs scissors that way work away slowly and there you can see look lovely and even same along this side just draw the blade pushing down all the way through and you tag end you can remove with the scissors now that that way the night doesn't skid off and if you go decided attacks you could have released the pressure you're going to be messing the cheer up you want to cut inside of the tax cut that bit off and then we are pretty well done lovely a smooth all finished what you can do if you want it if you had a wood frame one and a gap there to the padding it wouldn't have webbing through there that's all been left sometimes used to get hessian sack in and tack that on me you probably can get some nylon coverage just a meanie up in our case here they're dining chairs kitchen chairs doesn't really matter and this is the reason as you can see i got front there here's the front of the chair I've marked on the inside there because you can see it could go what either way and you don't want to force it you want to make sure it goes in the right way so there's the front I turn it over there's the little notches I told you about that's got to go into the chair into the actual corner of that now as you can see here i'll just show you here if you hadn't left the old covering on there you can see why i'm talking about it's a classic case with our posters it's just a lazy way people do it they cover every existing covery i'm going to have to hammer that in there what is that going to do it's going to push these joints here apart and you've got a weak chair all for the sake of a bit of time bit of trouble remove the old covering I just bang that in there say many other corner that's in now this chairs pretty good because it could make they've actually got supports here as well and I've got screws I can fire in there we

we'll put all that in nice and tight well that's hair done let's look at the set of chairs and I'm quite impressed with them there you go all done finish this cost me nothing except time and labor and nice set of chairs they almost look like new again look anybody can have a go this is just a way of rejuvenating your furniture at minimal costs you don't have I knew if you can help you if the joints are all good why would you want to change them but don't forget if you're going to wood flooring get something like some felt pads stick on self-adhesive felt pads put them on the floor on the on the base of this so you don't scratch your floor up thanks for watching the Tony awesome outdoor show keep watching for more DIY tips you