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Reupholstery can seem very intimidating if you’ve never done it before, but with a good tutorial and some patience, you can ...

Learn how to reupholster a chair seat and back (and even a couch), and you’ll be able to bring custom design into your space while extending the lifespan of a cherished piece of furniture. Upholstery ...

Take a look at your dining chairs? Are they sad? Stained? Do you wish they still looked the way they did in better days from before your kids “accidentally” spilled grape juice on them? Well, you’re ...

Times are tough. Prices have double in a year’s time, but our wages haven’t. Everyone is looking for more and more ways to safe money wherever they can. Nobody wants to spend money they don’t have to.

When I am out gallivanting around my favorite thrift stores, I’m hard-pressed to not come home with a chair of some sort. No matter the silhouette or size, and, too, the more tattered and torn the ...

Upholstery is the materials—which include fabric, padding, webbing, and springs—that make up the soft coverings of chairs, sofas, and other furniture. The process began in the Middle Ages and grew in ...

Q: We have a pair of matching upholstered chairs. Recently, we found that the springs inside one are broken. Both chairs are old, so we would like to have both renewed when we have the broken chair ...

Add pizzazz to an old chair from a flea market with bright, colorful fabric and you'll make it a focal point in a room. Reupholstering a straight-back chair, as opposed to a larger overstuffed one, is ...

1. To remove the seat turn chair upside down and place on a flat work area (like a table or the floor). Unscrew the seat, making sure to keep the screws in a safe place for later. 2. If the seat ...