How To Recover A Chair Seat
Martha stewart and peter germain recover the seat and back of a chair using fabric and foam.
How to recover a chair seat. Instructions remove the seat. Grasp the fabric on 1 side of the seat and pull it up and over the edge of the seat. This modal can be closed by pressing the escape key or activating the close button. Turn the chair upside down and unscrew the seat from the frame using a drill or screwdriver.
Repeat this for the other 3 sides of the seat. Remove the old foam from the seat. This modal can be closed by pressing the escape key or activating the close button. Then remove the original fabric from the cushion by removing the staples image 2.
If your new seat. End of dialog window. Remove the old fabric. If the staples are.
Cutting excess fabric if needed. This is a modal window. Remove the seat cushion from the chair frame using a screwdriver image 1. Use a staple remover to remove the old staples and fabric.
This is a modal window. Locate the center of the seat edge and place a staple in the center of the edge to secure the fabric. As we streamlined our approach here was the order we followed for each of the 6 chair seats. Beginning of dialog window.
Staple down side a center to ends staple down the opposite side side c center to ends staple down side b one edge to the other folding it like a package.