How to drag a chair with your own hands?

Not everyone wants to buy chairs from year to year. Namely, they from the most frequent operation quickly lose their attractive appearance, especially if the initial upholstery was far from the best quality. There is an alternative - independent repair of furniture at home. Hauling chairs with your own hands is a fairly simple process, and it does not include anything wise. But as in any other business, this process has its own nuances. Therefore, to know how to drag a chair with your own hands, check out this article.

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The first stage is preparation

In order for your chair to acquire a completely new look, you will definitely need the following materials and tools.

Prepare the following tools:

• Screwdrivers;
• Wrenches for bolts;
• narrow-nose pliers and pliers;
• Furniture stapler;
• Sandpaper or sanding machine;
• Scissors;
• Tassels.

Important! Also, it is best for you to stock up on acrylic paint or stain, varnish for the restoration of wooden elements, glue. The materials you can use may be different.

For upholstery:

• Artificial or genuine leather;
• Velours;
• Nubuck;
• Flock;
• Jacquard;
• Tapestry;
• Shenill

To fill the seat:

• Synthetic winterizer;
• Foam rubber;
• Batting;
• Seaweed;
• Horsehair.

Prepare two pieces of rough fabric to make a layer between the filler and the seat itself, as well as between the frame and the seat. Use only professional foam rubber for furniture, as its density is 22–25 kg / m.

Important! Keep the old upholstery intact so that you can use it to make a pattern from an already new fabric.

Dismantling an item

The restoration of wooden chairs with their own hands begins with the dismantling of the structure. Take a picture of your chair from all sides or draw a design to make it easier to assemble later. Unscrew all the bolts, separate the separate parts of your chair, remove the old upholstery, and then the filler.

Important! In the event that you have to restore the Vienna chair with your own hands, do it exactly as you would restore another chair - disassemble the structure, and after that - start updating the frame.

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The second stage is the restoration of the frame:

1. Using sandpaper or a sanding machine, sand the surface, eliminating all the remnants of the old coating. The surface of the chair should be sanded with sandpaper No. 80 and No. 100.
2. After you sanded your frame, clean it of dust and paint all the wooden parts with the paint of the shade that you prefer.
3. After the paint has dried, cover the entire surface of the structure with the final varnish.
4. Wait until the frame is completely dry.

Well, at this time, you can do upholstery updates.

Important! With the help of stain you can toned the chair and it will resemble a natural tree: oak, walnut, beech, mahogany.

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The third stage - we update the filler and upholstery

The obvious advantage of hauling old chairs with your own hands lies precisely in the fact that you have the opportunity to give them a look that will be in harmony with the style of your interior, and to realize a variety of creative ideas.To do this, you must choose the furniture fabric of the desired shade and texture, after which you can safely proceed with the repair:

1. According to the parameters of the old filler, cut out a new piece of foam.
2. Along the entire perimeter, coat the frame with special glue, and then press the filler that you cut.
3. Cover the flannel rough fabric filler and secure with staples.
4. Observing the dimensions of the old upholstery elements, make a pattern, that is, circle with chalk on a new fabric, and then cut your workpiece along the intended perimeter.
5. Face down, place the new fabric, attach the seat on top, wrap the edges of the upholstery. Fasten everything with a furniture stapler, trying to carefully stretch the material.
6. Cover the bottom of the seat with a specific piece of rough cloth, then secure it around the entire perimeter with staples.

Important! For greater reliability of fastening the layers of the seat, glue them around the entire perimeter with glue, and already put the load on the finished chair for 2 days, for example, a bucket of water.

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The final step is reassembling the chair.

Connect all the components of the chair, having missed all the fasteners with glue, and when this becomes necessary, replace the old fastener with new bolts.

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Design Ideas

Doing a chair with your own hands is not a necessity to update the appearance of furniture, but also an incredible opportunity for the manifestation of creative skills. As a new upholstery, you can use not only specially purchased furniture material.

For this purpose, you can use self-made compositions:

• Pavloposad shawls;
• weave leather belts;
• denim;
• other materials of the original texture, as well as with a variety of patterns and drawings.

Important! If you have artistic skills, the back and legs can be painted with patterns, aged, trimmed with various decorative elements, also created with your own hands.

In order to process the edges of the seat, you can trim it with contrasting colored braid, sew it with large buttons or beads. You can also completely make a new back cover, thereby giving the chair the look of a comfortable chair.

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Stock footage

As you can see, the whole process of hauling a chair with your own hands is not only a technical process, but also a creative one. Therefore, do not deny yourself the pleasure - fantasize, create furniture masterpieces that will contribute to the practical comfort in your home, and aesthetic.