Hello Hometalk peeps.. I have a barrel chair that I love. Ineed help!!

what are your thoughts about reupholstering or painting the fabric? What are you planning to use it for later? Do you want it to be able to roll?

Carefully remove the fabric in an unconspicuous spot to see what material is inside. It would probably look and feel much better with new stuffing and updated fabric. I would paint the wood with Annie Sloan chalk paint so it won't need to be stripped. Or leave wood as is if it's in decent shape. Hard to tell from the photo.

If you decide to reupholster yourself, you can use the existing fabric pieces as a model for the new fabric. Good luck!

I would keep the seat if it's good and rap the top with wood from an old pallet and make it look like a barrel

I was able to lighten the photo. Looks like the wood is in pretty good shape so you have options to either paint or use a stain scratch-cover pen on any scratches if you want to keep the wood-grain. Looks like an easy to cover chair but you also have the option to paint the upholstery. As Susan suggested above, carefully remove the fabric and keep for patterns for your new upholstery fabric. I would start on the bottom and remove any staples---there will be lots of them---taking many (!!!) pictures as you go so that as you are replacing the pieces, you know exactly where and how they should look/attach. Replace the upholstery with your new fabric in reverse order that you took it off. From the photo you provided, it looks like there may be only six pieces if the back is one solid piece wrapping from the front of the left arm, around the back to the front of the right arm, including the dust cover under the seat. Good luck on your project and please share with us when you finish

I redid a lot of chairs similiar to the style of the main part of the chair when I had my upholstery shop. If you do decide to recover it and its like most curved back chairs you are to going to have a metal tack strip to work with that attaches the back piece to the chair. the front of the back is 3 pieces of material. The back piece is usually 1 piece. The best thing to do 1st is to take the covering off the bottom on one corner back about 5 to 6 inches. At the bottom of the seam that attaches the back to the front,carefully slide a flat blade screw driver into the seam if it has the tack strip the seam will start to come apart.the next step if that is the way it is attached is to invest in a tack puller. Then carefully pull each tak out to remove the back. Very good luck in your endeavor. If you have any questions just just let me know.

I did several chairs from ancient to modern style, and I like to do this.

Remove the fabric toping carefully and keep it aside. Remove the wheels and keep it aside as well. Use sand paper to remove old paint and or varnish on the wood parts. If you want to have it lighter than it was, remove any colour under the varnish as well. Then, you can apply what I used : dark wood stain. instead of paint, it has the nice purpose to show wood veins under it. Aply twice with very thin sand paper after the first layer.

Then, you can deal with the toping. You can change the fabric, or use synthetic leather like I did. Use the old fabric pieces you kept aside to cut the new toping pieces and fix it exactly the same way. If you follow my advices, you can ad some black iron furniture nails with big heads. It's a bity long but you'll love it...

Then, put the wheels back in place, andyou're done.

I'm sure anybody will ask you where you got that magnificent seat. Believe me, it happen each time to my clients...

I have seen many people paint upholstered furniture if the padding is still in good shape. There are different products available, I suggest you research. Otherwise you may have to deconstruct the chair as I doubt you would be able to find a slipcover. The wood portions can be painted or if you sand them a bit, you could stain them a different color. I suggest you research here on Home Talk and other sites for how people tackled a chair re-do.