 Dining club chairs are a perfect way to combine club seating with dining. These are quality chairs that can be used with tables for dining as well as forIf your upholstered club chairs are looking worn and outdated and you cannot afford to replace them at present, then the only option left for you is to reupholster the fabric. By reupholstering them, you can give your club chairs a new look and your club a new life.
As contrary to the belief that reupholstering chairs is a very expensive and tedious task, getting the club chairs reupholstered or reupholstering them yourself can be managed with a little planning and expertise. You can easily do it without taking any help from the expert. To accomplish this task, all you need is some tools and a bit of patience.
How to Get Your Club Chairs Reupholstered
Here are a few tips that are going to help you in reupholstering your club chair.
- To start with, gather your materials. It includes measuring tape, seven yards of upholstery fabric, staple gun, strips of upholstery tacks, wadding, magnetic hammer, regulator, staple lifer and scissors. Before you start the whole process, make sure that you have all the necessary tools and have the work area covered with newspaper.
- Strip away the old fabric that's covering your club chair. Get rid of wadding too, if it is looking worn and dirty and needs replacement.
- Measuring the widest portion of the backrest is very critical in reupholstering your chair as without measurement you cannot cut the new fabric. You might also need to measure the length from top to bottom. When cutting the fabric for reupholstering, it is advisable that you add two inches on all measurements side to have some extra fabric for joining.
- Next, you need to staple the new upholstering fabric to the chair frame neatly, overlapping fabric on the inside part of the chair.
- To fit the inside of the backrest you need to cut three layers of wadding. Staple the inside of the backrest to the chair frame. In addition, it is quite essential that you cover it with the fabric through staple gun. Make sure that you keep the staples to the frame edge.
- To get even row of tacks, cover the staples with strips of upholstery tacks.
- To give club chairs a completely different look, cut double thickness of wadding for the seat. Staple gun can come in real handy in securing it on the exact location.
- It is necessary to fold the excess wadding into the corners in a neat manner. But before that, fit the fabric over it so that all the folding is done at once. To give your chair an elegant and classy design, staple the fabric in place along the frame edge.
- Make sure that you attach the webbing to the frame with staples, just inside the far edge.
- Finish the whole process by covering the staples with strips of upholstery tacks.
 When reupholstering your club chair, use an upholstery webbing stretcher properly. Upholstery webbing stretcher comes in wide array of designs that helps immensely in increasing the tension on the webbing. Before using upholstery webbing stretcher it is always better to familiarize yourself with this tool first. Shaped pretty much like a paint roller, upholstery webbing stretcher has a fixed bar on the end of the handle. Use this stretcher only with canvas webbing or tough jute as it makes holes in the straps.
If you find yourself unable to carry out this task of upholstering or find it difficult, consult professional furniture makers for upholstering your club chairs. Doing it wrongly might spoil or damage your chairs. Getting your club chairs reupholstered is a very economical task that will give a new lease of life to your chairs as well as club.
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