How to Reupholster Seat Cushions

2 Materials
$100
2 Hours
Easy
I found the most amazing set of vintage cane back chairs at an antique store not far from my house. I scored FOUR of these for only $75! You can't even buy one dining chair for that price any more! Although they were in really good condition, I wanted to give them a makeover, starting with the seat cushion.
Normally, I would remove the old fabric first, but this fabric was in pristine condition so I decided to cover right over it. I spread out the new fabric across my kitchen table and centered two of the cushions on it, face down.
I trimmed the fabric so that there was just enough to wrap around to the backs of the seats without too much extra.
I used a staple gun to secure the fabric in place, leaving the corners for last. For those, I folded it sort of like wrapping a present, pulling it as tight as possible and then stapling in place.
Here is what the finished corners look like.
Here is one of the chairs with the cushion back in place.
I also painted the chairs white. The linen colored cushions with the white chairs match much better in my breakfast nook, which you can see  all decked out for Spring here.
Suggested materials:
  • Staple gun   (hardware store)
  • Fabric   (craft store)
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  • Linda Linda on Mar 23, 2018

    Where can you purchase the wicker for chair backs

  • Linda Linda on Mar 23, 2018

    Where can you purchase the wicker for chair backs

  • Stacey R Burgess Stacey R Burgess on May 28, 2018

    How do I add more cushion to my dining room chairs with out reupholstering the chairs

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  • Stacey R Burgess Stacey R Burgess on Aug 11, 2018

    Sounds good. I’m going to try this method

  • It's always nice to reupholster and refresh your look which you have done. I have reupholstered many times and would suggest a different way to do your corners so there isn't a folding piece visible.


    This will be difficult to picture without a photograph, but I fold inwards from the middle of the corner and then fold the other two sides ontop of the first fold, pulling the fabric tightly on the wrong side of the chair.


    When you secure it with staples make sure that you have a clean corner and you can't see any of the folds on the right side. It's a little tricky as you don't want to lose the shape of the corner.

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