How To Clean Cloth Bar Stools

Happy Friday and Happy May 1st – tin can yous believe how fast the time is going? Even with the slow pace of things in the globe at the moment, for me it seems similar time is still flight. I have been busy! And today I'yard back with another super easy DIY – how to recover a bar stool!

When we first got our gorgeous Chippendale bar stools , I knew that I'd eventually want to recover them. That'southward merely what I do! I love to find easy, inexpensive ways to update our home, and this is ane of those projects – anyone can practise this, I hope. The all-time part? I've done it in such a unproblematic fashion, you lot can knock this out in a couple of hours.

Keep scrolling to see what you need, and how incredibly unproblematic it is to recover a bar stool!

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HOW TO RECOVER A BAR STOOL – THE Like shooting fish in a barrel WAY!

I wanted a new look in our kitchen, something light and coincidental that volition live through the seasons – for at present that is! I'll probably tackle this again, because it's a fantastic way to exhale new life into any space. I've recovered our living room ottoman at least four times now and it always is a game changer.

Earlier I get into the steps – below is a look at the before. I loved them with the uncomplicated off white fabric before, simply you can't deny the gorgeous new Toulouse Stripe from Tonic Living elevates the look so much! I already had the fabric so it was a no brainer! If y'all'd similar a tour of my kitchen, check out my Spring kitchen here !

Can you lot believe the difference? Information technology's subtle, but has so much affect. The grayness stripe echoes the grayness in our roman shades, which I really dear. They await fresh and updated and the add-on of a new pattern in our kitchen is but what I was looking for.I nearly went with a blue allover impress for summer, but decided for at present I wanted to proceed information technology more than neutral. The new striped fabric adds a coincidental elegance and is just perfect in our kitchen. Proceed scrolling to run across how to recover a bar stool!

MATERIALS NEEDED TO Embrace BAR STOOLS

You just need a few materials – no sewing or gluing required! Gather everything you lot need to get started:

UPHOLSTERY Class Textile

Pair of scissors

SCREWDRIVER

STAPLE GUN (AND STAPLES!)

PLIERS

RECOVER YOUR BAR STOOLS Pace By STEP!

STEP 1 – I combined a few simple actions in step ane. Remove your bar stool seats – mine just pop correct out – you may need to remove yours with a screwdriver or drill. Lay your fabric confront down on a flat surface. Identify your bar stool seat face down on top of the opposite side of your new fabric. Brand certain information technology is centered on the fabric and the pattern is straight. Cut cloth in a square, leaving about iii inches all around the seat. Secure your fabric in place past stapling each side in the middle. This volition continue information technology from shifting all over. Discover that I left the existing seating fabric and backing. I didn't desire to deal with removing all those staples and and then reapplying the backing as well. I'll modify this fabric again, so the easier, the ameliorate…and no one tin can encounter it anyhow! Step Ii – Staple all four sides, working your fashion from the center of each side to the corners. I prefer to go out the corners until concluding, so you lot have more than flexibility with pulling the material if needed. If by any hazard yous make a mistake – remove the staple with a screwdriver and pliers, no big bargain! Trust me, I had to remove many! My staple gun was acting up on me, so information technology took a little wrestling to get it all done! STEP 3 – Kickoff with your first corner. Fold the cloth in to create a triangle, making sure to pull it tight. STEP FOUR – Belongings the folded corner (don't staple it notwithstanding!), fold one side over that folded corner, pulling whatsoever excess textile to keep it from bunching upwards. STEP FIVE – Over again, while holding everything in place without stapling, fold the other side over the folder corner and the beginning folded side. Pull the fabric tight on both sides, making sure it's even and in that location are no bumps or excess along the outer edges of the bar stool seat. Pace SIX – Secure the folded sides and corner with a staple, as shut to the corner as possible. This volition go along everything in place. Echo steps five and half-dozen on all four corners Pace SEVEN – Trim some of the excess fabric at the corners, nether the folds with your pair of scissors. This will minimize majority before you consummate stapling the balance of the folded cloth. Last STEP – After securing the corner with the first staple and trimming the excess fabric, continue to staple along the edges of the fold. I used two or three staples. Echo on all corners. Add whatever staples y'all think you demand to secure everything. Trim off whatsoever excess cloth forth the edges and voilà! Y'all now have a brand new, recovered bar stool!

OUR RECOVERED BAR STOOLS!

We couldn't be happier with the way our bar stools turned out. My cloth is quite thick, and our seats fit into a frame, not on height of the frame. We had to put some pressure to become them to fit back into place, but they fit like a glove. You lot may want to remove the original fabric (and backing of course) if information technology's on the thick side. Ours was not, it was thin enough to cover with the new fabric.If you take stools like ours, I even suggest trying one stool first if you don't want to remove the fabric, to ensure it volition fit back into place. Ours took some coaxing, but they fit perfectly. We absolutely love results!

I hope you found this tutorial helpful! If you desire to do this yourself, I hope yous'll find it then simple to do and worth every second! It'due south a simple, inexpensive mode to update any space.Thank you as always for reading with me! How to recover a bar stool is so much easier than you lot remember. I'd love to hear from yous if you lot tried these simple steps! Tell me how they turned out! Happy DIYing and Happy Weekend! xo