How to Recover a Chair

Video Transcript

"My name is Judy Williams representing expertvillage.com, and today we are talking about different ways to decorate your dining room. I'm going to demonstrate recovering a chair cushion. When I decided to redecorate this room, I still liked the fabric, which was a just a cotton glow sheen, but I wanted something a little elegant, which I was just ready for something new. You will notice that basically I have the same colors; it is just that I put them into a stripe. They are closer together so they seem more dynamic. So going to this flower to this stripe fabric. All you really need is a staple gun and staples and a screw driver for this job. Most chairs just have screws that are right here, and you unscrew each one and remove your cushion. And I'm just showing you how right now where they are located. Now I have cut my fabric; it takes a yard in a half to two yards of 54 inch upholstery fabric to cover 6 chairs. Again depending upon your width and the depth of your chair or the depth of your cushion. This cushion doesn't require any sewing to redo. What I did is decide which of these stripes is to be my center. In every cushion I'm placing this blue stripe on the center, that way it is consistent when they are lined up. They look nice, they are repetitious in their look, in the pattern repeat. How do you determine the amount of fabric does have to deal with your pattern repeat. If it is a flower pattern, when you measure around and add four inches on each end, then you divide that by your pattern repeat and that gives you the cut and length of your material."