Tuesday, March 5, 2013

Antique Chevron Reupholstered Arm Chair

I picked up this arm chair last spring at a yard sale for $10.  The frame was in great shape but the fabric was torn, the seat sagging, and it needed a fresh look.
 
The webbing was all rotted and broke.  Some of the strings that tied the springs were broke as well.
 
It had the original grass in the seat and back.
 
I gutted her.  It took forever to remove all the staples in the frame.  I retied the springs, gave it new webbing underneath, and sewed the springs to the webbing underneath by hand. I lightly sanded, primed, and painted the frame.
 
I used the old pieces of fabric as a pattern and cut my new fabric. I reused the old sheeps wool along with new stuffing, burlap, and batting. I took many pictures of the demo and put it back together the same way it was with some new materials. Then I used my upholstery gun and stapled the fabric and added trim.
 
I bought an upholstery gun on Amazon for $20 or $30 (can't remember) almost a year before and never used it before this chair.  I love it because it hooks to my air compressor and is so easy. It shoots them in with no effort.  So worth the money!  I have since used it several times on other projects.
 
This project was many many hours of labor over several days.  This is only the second chair of this kind I've upholstered.  I have done many other small projects like seats and benches.  I'm getting a little faster as I learn.  I've had this chair done for six months and just today added the trim to hide the staples.  It feels good to finally have it 100% done!


I love this chair.  So fresh and updated!

I bought the fabric at Hobby Lobby with a 40% off coupon.  It ended up being $5.40 a yard and I used 3 yards.  With the fabric, trim, 1/2 box of staples and the $10 I paid for the chair I have about $35 into it and hours and hours of labor.
 
Now if I could motivate myself to recover this chair in the same fabric I'd be set.  I picked this chair up last summer at a yard sale for $3.  The nice thing is it was already stripped and staples removed.  I painted it, added new burlap to the back and added webbing underneath.  I would love to add springs but I don't have any or know where to get some cheap.  I may just add foam.  Maybe in a year she'll be done. Ha.
 

15 comments:

  1. wow your chair looks marvelous, I know it took a lot of hours to do that, so cool the staple guns now that hook up to the compressor, so much easier, I love both chairs so much, I am sure you will get the bug and finish the second one....

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  2. What an absolutely amazing transformation!!!
    Beautiful job -
    XXX

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  3. You always do amazing work and this chair looks so good now. Aren't you amazed at how many people just can't do or see what we can?

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  4. Awesome job!!! Came over from Coastal Charm's Link party. Looks fantastic! Thanks for inspiring me to stop putting off my re-upholstery projects!!! amy @ www.commona-myhouse.blogspot.com

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  5. Job well done...I love it! Sounds like it was a lot of hard work, but so worth it in the end. Thanks for sharing it at my party.

    Blessings,
    Linda

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  6. I HATE the grass/hay filled furniture. Ewww. You did a fab job on making her over. Thanx for sharing at THT.

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  7. Wow, fantastic job!! I'm your newest follower ;)
    Jamie www.somuchbetterwithage.com

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  8. The chair looks so good! You did such a great job!!

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  9. Great make over. I have a chair to recover and im torn between stripes and chevron! Pinned :) New follow. Follow back at
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  10. What an incredible transformation! I would love for you to join the Pinworthy Projects link party! http://www.atkinsondrive.com/pinworthy-projects-link-party-week-10/

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  11. You did an excellent on job on this chair! The stripes match up perfectly. That is hard to accomplish! I love it! Thank you for sharing it at What We Accomplished Wednesdays. Have a great weekend!

    Hugs,
    Deborah

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