3 Easy Steps And Items Needed To Measure A Recliner For A Slipcover
The frame of your well-constructed recliner sofa can last for many upcoming years, but your recliner sofa upholstery fabric and padding covering your sofa’s frame will not always last for many years. Normal tear and wear, along with a bit of help from your pets and children, will leave your sofa upholstery thread-bare, dirty, and smelly. By using your slipcover you can easily hide unsightly damage, but it cannot help with the ingrained smells. Recovering your old recliner sofa can not only save you from buying the new furniture, but this also gives you the convenience to update your recliner sofa’s presentation with a contemporary fabric to match your decor. In order to recover your recliner sofa and measure it for a slipcover, you just need to gather certain items that are necessary to finish this task. Here is the list of required items & steps for this process:
Items Needed
- Note Pad
- Flexible Vinyl Tape Measure
- Calculator
Steps For This Process
After gathering all the required items, now you need to follow all the given steps to finish your task:
- First of all, you need to list the different areas on your recliner sofa that need recovering on your note pad, such as the cushions, arms, sides, back & front. Some of these sofa areas will have an assessment for the front and a sovereign measurement for the back, while the other areas will have outside & inside assessment, such as your sofa wings and back. Your recliner sofa arms may even have a third assessment for the fabric covering your sofa front. Your sofa cushions also have three assessment for the bottom, top and height.
- After that, you need to measure the depth, length and height, and also the width of each area in inches of your recliner sofa. Now you need to simply use your flexible vinyl tape measure to ensure that you measure any curved areas of your recliner sofa meticulously. Always try to measure the widest widths of your sofa area. For your t-shaped seat cushions, you need to use the width measurement of your t-shape along the front of your cushion.
- The final thing is to multiply each respective height and width or length and depth of your recliner sofa area altogether to achieve your square footage. Also, add the total, and then you need to divide by 36 in order to calculate the yardage needed to recover your recliner sofa. Now you need to add 20 percent to your final taken measurement to account for the seams, mistakes, and waste. If you contemplate using the decorative piping then you also need to add at least a yard to your final taken measurements. If your recliner sofa has a decorative skirt then you also need to add at least two yards to your final fabric taken measurement.
Tip For This Process
- Some type of fabrics have pattern repeats that can vary from fabric to fabric. You simply need to ask your fabric store associate if the upholstery fabric you have chosen has a pattern repeat. If it does, ask your associate that how many additional yards you need will match your pattern when recovering your recliner sofa.