How Do You Reupholster A Wingback Chair?
Buying new furniture and sprucing up a room in your home can be very fun. But, buying anything new may not always be feasible. By following a few easy steps and freeing up your weekend, you can reupholster a wingback chair or any other piece of furniture and give your home a whole new look for less. Purchase your materials. To reupholster a wingback chair, you will need upholstery fabric, batting, needle-nose pliers, piping or welting, a rubber mallet, fabric scissors, a staple gun with staples, cardboard, rigid metal and flexible jaw metal stripping, a hot glue gun and an ice pick. You can find cardboard stripping, ridged metal and flexible jaw metal stripping at an upholstery store. Since most wingback chairs are about the same size, about 11 yards of fabric should do the trick. Strip your old chair. Be careful when stripping the fabric off your wingback chair because you will be using it as your template with the new fabric. You will also need to pull out any staples with your needl
