How to reupholster chairs in 17 easy steps, the rmless2 way →[More:]
1. Find nice wooden dining table and chairs on the street that unfortunately have
dingy ugly seat covers.
2. Live with them for 3 years wishing they were different.
3. Buy random fabrics and occasionally lay them out on the chairs and ask passersby if they look good.
4. Move twice, then decorate your apartment in colors that match none of your previously-bought fabrics.
5. Go to Ikea and buy better fabrics that match.
6. Put them away for at least 4 months to "age" in your closet.
7. Borrow someone's staple gun and figure out how to get it out of its packaging and put it together at about 10 pm one night.
8. Cut fabric, then realize it has some serious wrinkles from the closet aging process.
9. Iron fabric with your hair straightening iron which only does 1.5 inch strips at a time because you don't have a real iron.
10. Figure out how to take apart your chairs.
NOTE: it should be at least midnight by now.
11. Practice
stapling on the pumpkin you just carved until you figure out how a staple gun works.
12. Wrap fabric around seat, making sure screw holes are left uncovered for putting-back-together purposes, and staple more or less haphazardly around the back edge, leaving corner tucking for last.
13. Try to put chair back together. Fail. Try more, fail more.
14. Give up and pet the
bunny for ten minutes.
15. One more try, ok it works!
16. Wash, rinse, repeat for the rest of the chairs, which luckily go back together better than the first one.
17.
Done!
NOTE: it should be well past 2 am now, and you have to be at work at 9 for a marketing meeting.