Recovering Dining Room Chair Cushions

I recovered the seat cushions of my 6 dining chairs using faux leather.

Recovering dining room chair cushions. You can reupholster most dining room chairs in about an hour. Supplies needed to recover a dining chair cushion the biggest decision to make about recovering a chair is what fabric to use. Make sure to save the screws for reattaching the seat to the chair base after you are done.

Cut new fabric place your foam and seat on top of your new fabric. So we decided our reupholstery project would involve both a change in fabric and cushion thickness after all we wanted to make these nifty chairs as comfy as could be for our derrières. Unscrew the dining chair seat from the base.

Using a temporary fabric pen trace a line three inches out from the seat and cushion. Also the padding on the chairs was thinner than we liked. If the chair is going somewhere that gets dirty like in a kitchen you should consider fabrics that can be easily cleaned.

Create a new seat from 1 2 inch plywood. Gather supplies and remove seat cushion remove seat cushion from chair frame and original fabric from cushion. Unscrew the seat base from the chair frame.

If the fabric on the cushion is showing age has. They are called performance fabrics and there are lots of different manufacturers. Either trace the old base or measure the seat frame and mark the wood with the dimensions minus about an 1 8 inch all around.

We brought the table and chair set for the looks and ikea didn t have the seat color nor the fabric type we wanted so i. Chair cushions consist of plywood inserts with foam and fabric that comes off easily. When we refinished our table and chairs with annie sloan chalk paint in paris grey this past summer the tan cushions no longer matched.

Use a screwdriver to loosen the screws attaching the dining chair seat to the chair base. How to re cover a dining room chair. If the base is in good condition remove the old fabric and staples with an awl and pliers.