Upholstering caned chairs
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Remember the chair I showed you yesterday? One of Jamie’s recent finds at the Goodwill outlet for $5.00. When I asked Jamie “what is the Goodwill outlet” she replied “it’s where Goodwill things go to die”.
We don’t have an outlet here in Louisville. In fact the store closest to me is the smallest Goodwill I have ever seen. Imagine the size of a convenience store gas station. In this picture you can see that it had arms at one time.
I had thought about making some kind of shrug or cover for the back. I haven’t upholstered many chairs, so I just sort of started on it and kind of “winged” it.
After lightly sanding it, I used some spray paint to primer it.
Upholstering Caned Chairs
While the paint was drying I worked on recovering the seat.
Painted it black.
I decided it would be best to remove the finials and take a little “off the top”.
I fell in love with the jigsaw from Black & Decker. Jamie’s dad bought me one for my birthday. However our Home Depot didn’t have the exact one. Mine doesn’t have the line finder on it.
However, I really loved how easy it was to operate to remove that little piece of this chair.
At my house, I have lots of random stuff. At Jamie’s I had to be resourceful! She recently got a new cable box, and this paper is the “quick start” guide. I used it to make a paper pattern of the back.
Jamie recently started selling Pampered Chef. They have awesome boxes! Because some of their products are so heavy, their boxes are extremely durable. Jamie had many boxes set aside to recycle, so I had a lot to choose from.
Jamie had purchased some batting for this project, but while I was staying in the guest room, I noticed several bed pillows strewn around. I stapled the pillow to the chair.
I gave it a new “neckline” in order to spread the “fluff” all the way to the top edges of the chair back.
I used my staple gun to attach the fabric.
I covered the cardboard with the fabric. I used my Elmer’s Spay Adhesive to attach the front of the cardboard. On the back I used some E6000 and tape. As you can see, I left my mark for anyone else who may tackle this in the future. The seat of this chair had already been covered twice before.
Looking pretty good eh? Especially for someone who has no real clue what she’s doing!
Voila!
Ain’t she pretty?
I used Gorilla glue to glue the cardboard in.
It’s going to look great in Jamie’s office/sewing room!
gail
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Gorgeous redo!
The Goodwill outlet is actually where things go BEFORE GW SELLS the products to third-world countries. Yeah, sells.
CraftTeaLady (aka Gina)
Wow Gail you aced that one… it looks fabulous… I am in love with your fabric… I am sure Jamie is going to LOVE it… great job.
Hugs, Deb
That chair looks great, and I absolutely LOVE the fabric you chose. I would be so afraid to tackle something like that – you’re amazing!
Ok…that is just ridiculous…amazing job!
OH my WORD, lady! Are you kidding my right now!?!?! You just blew my mind!
You have some MAD skillz!
Bravo!
I LOVE LOVE LOVE it!
Shelley Smith
houseofsmiths.blogspot.com
Love it! Would never have thought to remove finials. Good job.
That is the best chair redo I’ve seen in a while! Your didn’t just paint it and change the fabric on the seat, you completely transformed it into a fabulous upholstered chair! Bravo! Your tutorial is great, thanks so much!
Cheers!
Tina
HEY! Did you mean Louisville, as in KY? If so, we’re neighbors! ๐ I live about an hour away from there! :)I LOVE the re-do on the chair!! It looks brand new and beautiful! You’ll have to pop over and see what I got over the weekend. :)have a blessed day!
You never cease to amaze me with all your creativity! I love this chair. You could certainly have your own show on TV to teach the rest of us your techniques. You always make it look so easy.
You never cease to amaze me with all your creativity! I love this chair. You could certainly have your own show on TV to teach the rest of us your techniques. You always make it look so easy.
This is SO great. I love how fabulous it turned out. No one would ever suspect what it looked like before!! SO CUTE!!
I would love for you to link this to my Spring has Sprung Party on Friday. It fits in SO well!
Oh my gosh I am so jealous! Actually, I was hoping you were going to show how to re-cane the chair or something. Theres a great one for sale on my local Craigslist but the caning is “holy” like this one.Ive been eye-ing the chair for weeks in hopes someone in blogland would show me what I could do with it. Now Im drooling over your transformation and I may have to make a phone call.:)
Sarah
handbagsnpigtails.blogspot.com
PS-I wanna win the giveaway so badly:)