Easy Steps To Add Upholstery To A Wooden Chair
In order to add Upholstery To A Wooden Chair, the user needs to follow the below-given steps:
- Upholstery Webbing: The first step is to go for upholstery webbing. For webbing it is very important to fold the beginning so that it can break easily, then with the help of the staple gun attach it to the half of the wooden frame, try to pull the webbing as tight as possible and then secure with the staples. Follow the same procedure for the rest half of the frame.
- Rotate: The next step is to rotate the frame and follow the same process so that there will be two new strips which are perpendicular to the first one.
- Fabric: Now the user needs to take the piece of the fabric and cut it about 2 cm bigger than required area, now place the fabric on the top of the frame and with the help of the staple attach it to the wood but fold the edges.
- Thickness To Middle Of The Seat: For that add some upholstery batting on the centre where there is no wood.
- Cut: Now the user needs to cut the upholstery foam in the square shape but it must be 2 cm bigger than the area of the seat, after that the next step is to place it on the batting and fix the sides of this to the sides of the wooden frame, in case of the angles, carefully cut them out and attach the foam to the wood.
- Cut The Fabric: Now the step is to cut the fabric, according to the seat, the fabric should be enough to cover the area, then lay the piece of the furniture in upside direction then start stapling the 4 cardinal side points first. Now continue to attach all sides of the fabric to the wood.
- Corners: Once the user has attached all 4 sides, then try to pull the fabric at the corners as tight as possible then secure with the staple gun, and then trim the excess.