Very often people simply throw out old furniture, buying for themselves new products in the store. But in many cases, new items quickly fail. The quality of standard furniture from chipboard often wants the best. But you could spend quite a bit of money and effort to try and restore the old chair or sofa by replacing the material . This is perfectly possible for a simple person who is a little familiar with such simple tools as a construction stapler, a screwdriver, scissors and pliers.
How to draw furniture yourself?
- For example, take a simple chair, on which the upholstery is already very old and requires replacement.
- We buy in the store a new beautiful fabric and foam rubber, which will be needed for this work. Matter needs to be bought always a little with a margin. It is impossible to accurately calculate its size, and the remnants can always be found applying, sewing pads or wrapping a small stool.
- All purchases are made, tools are prepared, and you can proceed to the constriction of upholstered furniture with your own hands. First of all, you need to disassemble the old chair in order to carefully remove the old cloth. In our case, the material is fixed with the help of staples, which you must try to carefully pull out.
- It is necessary to do this very carefully, so as not to break it. Old bolts can sometimes cause problems. Often they just do not twist and turn. It will be necessary to trim the tissue in this place, if it interferes, then to get to the cap of the bolt.
- We support the staples with a screwdriver.
- Now you can easily pull them out using pliers or ticks.
- When all the braces are fully pulled out, remove the old cloth from the seat of our chair. Do not throw it away immediately. Sometimes it may be necessary for a template to correctly make a pattern of a new workpiece.
- Remove the old foam rubber. The seat, devoid of upholstery, is very ugly, but now you can proceed to the next stage.
- It is necessary not just to pull up the upholstered furniture with your own hands, but also to make it as comfortable as possible. To do this, we cut out the new foam rubber, after removing the dimensions of the chair seat.
- You can put foam rubber on the seat and align them so that you can cut off excess, outward material. It is desirable to put a sintepon over the foam. The furniture will last longer, the foam rubber will not be so quickly wrinkled, and the products will get a more spacious look.
- We will unfold a new fabric for an upholstery and we will put on it the prepared details.
- We begin to tighten the material of the frame of our seat, bending and pressing the hand to the bar of its edge.
- To the wooden base we attach the fabric with the help of a construction stapler. Working with this tool is very convenient and does not require much experience or special skills. In addition, the bracket is easy to pull out if necessary.
- The same operation is done with the other sides of the seat.
- Once again, after measuring everything, we trim the excess material with scissors.
- Now nothing hinders us from completing our work, and we can fix the rest of the fabric to the wooden frame.
- Particular attention should be paid to the corners. Here, many start with problems. )
- We try to make the bend as neatly as possible, leveling and in turn pressing each edge of the matter, fixing it with staples.
- Alternately, we perform the same manipulation with each angle, the appearance of our product depends on this. Bottom also everything should look beautiful and nothing should be over the edge.
- We install a new seat on a chair and we can admire the result of our work. Pulling over old furniture with your own hands was a success, it's time to start the next chair .
It is clear that working with the sofa will be much more difficult, but it is also a workable task, as well as tightening furniture with your own hands. This occupation is more complex and responsible. Here you will already need the ability to work on a sewing machine to properly and beautifully sew new cases. Begin with armrests, then upholster the backrest and seat, changing everywhere fillers. This work is very laborious and laborious, but it is also quite possible for a hard-working person.