DIY // How to Transform an Upholstered Chair
Hi there, hope you all had a nice weekend? I promised in my Chair Reveal from last Friday, that I would share my tutorial with you on how to transform an old upholstered chair.
Since this tutorial has multiple steps, I created a little gallery for you. You can find all the material I used below, with a summary of the spendings for this project. I would love to hear what you think about this tutorial!
DIY // How to Transform an Upholstered Chair
Material used for this project:
- Fabric from HomeFabrics and Rugs
- 1.5 yards of the main leaf print fabric $5/yard
- .5 yards of brown textured fabric for the back $5/yard
- 10″ inches-green linen fabric for buttons and trim $5/yard
- Total: about $15.00 incl. tax
- Decotacks Upholstery Nails/tacks 7/16″ – 100 Pcs – $6.90
- Fabric covered buttons – dark green – $10.00
- Dritz 44296 Dust Cover Upholstery Fabric, Charcoal, 36-Inch by 5-Yard (already owned) – $8.49
- Staple gun (already owned)
- Dritz Magnetic Upholstery Tack Hammer (already owned) – $12.82
- Dritz Upholstery Tack Strip, Natural (already owned) – $9.89
- Foam, batting (already owned) – $4.00
- 8 .oz Oil based Ebony Stain from Minwax (already owned) – $4.78
- Total cost, including fabric: $35.90
Since I already owned some of the items, I did not include them in my total cost. So, my spendings for material was only $35.90 plus the chair $22.00, makes this makeover a whooping $57.90.
I’d love to hear your feedback on this makeover.
Very informative and detailed tutorial! Thanks for sharing it. I’m always on the lookout for treasures like your chair to salvage and redo! Well done.
Unbelievable! That looks so great.
Thanks kat, we are stocked about it as well, love seeing it every morning when I walk into the room!
Do you know the name of the fabric? I love it and can’t seem to find it on the website link.
Yes, it is the isunda gray. Search isunda gray covers and it will get you to the right place
This turned out amazing!!! I am very impressed.
Looks fantastic! I searched for ‘Isunda Gray’ and I could only find a gray couch from Ikea with that name
The fabric is called Isunda Gray, the couch is called Karlstad!
Which couch? I was commenting about the floral fabric on the chair you have upholstered.
Nice job, But why the buttons on the seat? How did you attach them?
Hi Paula,
I only added the button to the seat for looks. I had attached them to the wires underneath.
The shared tutorial about the transforming an upholstered chair was nice. I hope it will be inspiring many people to change their normal chairs into decorative upholstered chairs. Decorative upholstery nails that bring in a beautiful and luxurious look to your gorgeous chairs, sofas, tables or beds with lots of options available in these decorative nails.
Congrats you’ve converted an expensive, great looking chair that should be kept into something ugly. The fabric is hideous.
To be honest all that matters is if I like it, and so does the new owner!
Wow!! Rude much? Some people just can’t help being keyboard warriors!
Thanks for the tutorial! I just purchased 2 great chairs with the same skeleton as this chair and this will be my first upholstery project. Just curious, why did you sew the back panel pieces together instead of using one single piece?
Hi Erin,
I had to cut the fabric because it was curving and I couldn’t stretch it to fit the chairs frame.
I recommend to use the old fabric as your template, once you take it off you should see how it was installed previously.
very well described..you created a cozy looking chair. To be honest, the old covering look
cold, not inviting…The critic who didn’t like it has no taste I guess. to each his/her own…I liked it
Annmarie Thank you, for stopping by and leaving me your sweet message. I had lots of fun giving the chair a great makeover if someone doesn’t like it, it’s not going to change that fact! 😉
Hi,
Would you mind telling how thick of foam you placed on the chair?
Thank you!
PS. You did a great job!!!
Sure, it was 4 inches thick.
Thank you so much! 4 inches thick for all around the top half and the seat bottom? I was only able to find 2 inch thick at Joann’s fabric.
Yes, I used it for the back and the cushion. On the back i had to cut some off to make it flow nicely to the edge.