A few Simple Changes

I wanted to take another look at the Drop cloth chair re-upholstery and point out some of the things that I changed while re-upholstering this chair.  Design changes that make the re-upholstery job quicker and easier!

If you take a closer look at the arms of this chair before shot - - you can see that they have been sewn together without cording.

 

When I re-upholstered this, I found it was much easier to add cording to both sides of the arm. 

 

By adding cording to both sides of the arm – that allowed me to easily use curve-ease to put the sides of the chair on.

On the original chair, they used upholstery tacks to attach the sides – this a decorative way of adding details, but it is:

A. not the look I was going for

B.  not easy to do at all!!

If you need a tutorial to help you with curve-ease, you can visit mine here.

 

By using curve-ease, you can see that I got a very smooth finished side that shows of the shapely curves of the chair!!

 

Just a couple of little changes, that made my re-upholstery job much easier, and added new details and definition to the chair.  As you do more re-upholstery projects, you will become more confident in knowing what things you can change around in your projects!!  I try to use curve-ease whenever possible because it makes the job so much easier and the finished look is so much nicer looking!