* I can’t do corners or around legs without them looking saggy, baggy and very creased. I know you’re meant to take the legs off, but these are nailed in tight and the wood has split slightly in places. They don’t look easy to remove and if I could remove them, I think they just might fall apart. So they stayed put and I had to go around.
* I didn’t buy appropriate fabric for recovering an armchair. I bought this fabric on a whim – just thin cotton – and it wasn’t until I got it home I thought “oh, this pattern might look good on a chair”.
* I can’t nail in those little bulleted nails (at the front on the bottom) straight or without bunching up the fabric. And I don’t have enough patience or care factor to redo it.
* I don’t know what those little bulleted nails are called.
* I bought the wrong-sized staples for the staple gun and had to hammer them in after stapling because they stuck out too far.
* I didn’t bother covering the underseat so if you got down low on the floor you’d see the excess fabric sticking out and possibly some too-long staples I didn’t nail in.
But other than all that, I like it! Steve wants me to do my nana’s chairs in the same fabric but I’m not convinced it’ll last. Might do a trial and error with this chair first… What do you think?
FYI: the lamp is from Freedom, the wooden blocks are Muji’s New York City in a Bag from MomaStore and the cushion is by Pony Rider. I will try and remember to post credits from now on things I think you might be interested in. I know how annoying it is to not have that info immediately!
{images by me}
i bought a cute french style stool and was considering getting it upholstered but i dont have the extra $$$ so i think im going to try and do it myself!!! im inspired!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ps. are we calling it the ‘cabin” again?
two for $25 cathy? good find! did you recover yourself?
miss mellie, it’s not too hard – try to follow what they’ve done themselves. it’s a bit fiddly and sometimes you wish you had an extra pair of hands to pull the fabric. good luck!
julie – haha! i guess i am. have called it that forever so i guess it’s hard to change!!!
I’m in love with the cushion in the first picture!
They sell eveything you could need, but the most useful thing will be that book. It covers every type of furniture and how to restore & recover from webbing & springs through to fabric selection.
The fabric is probably not too bad as long as you cover your flock underneath with calico first. And keep stretching & tacking, and repeat until you have a nice smooth finish.