New Life to an Old Chair

(moving this post over from a blog I started a loooonnng time ago and them immediately forgot)

So the next step in our office decorating was to cover our chair. I have a love/hate relationship with this chair. It's comfortable and the perfect height for my tall table. But the fabric is bad. BAD-BAD. The fabric is hot and itchy and staying in it for a long period of time is pretty well impossible.

So we decided to change all that. The only thing I purchased for this project was a staple gun. I've never used a staple gun before and was a little skittish at the beginning, but by the time I was finished, I was a natural.

The hardest part of the whole recovering was getting the original staples out. I don't own a staple puller and have no clue if they'll remove this kind of staple, BUT I did have a teeny tiny screw driver and pliers. That's how I removed all the staples.

I removed the old fabric and pinned it to the new, then cut around it to get the general size I needed. I first staple a double layer of craft batting on both the seat and the back for a little extra cushioning and then followed suit by stapling the fabric on top of that.

Can you tell I cleaned between the two pics? lol

Detail

Overall, for my first try reupholstering something, I think it went pretty well. I can't wait to try something else.

Thanks for looking!