Can You Recover Bar Stools

Published on jan 23 2017 this is such an easy and cheap way to dress up or change your decor.

Can you recover bar stools.

Give your bar stools a new life with these step by step instructions for doing a bar stool makeover. Divide the bar stool seat in quarters visually and tack one section of fabric or vinyl to the bottom of the stool from each quarter using a staple or nail. Flip the stool as you tack to verify the fabric or vinyl remains flat on the seat. Consider making a slip cover for the back and recover the seat stapling underneath.

This way you can finish and paint the legs. Remove the seat from the rest of the bar stool if at all possible. Just pick out your fabric upholstery fabric about 1 yd for each bar stool should be enough get. The longer they sat in our basement though the more i considered attempting to give them a second life.

If the upholstered bar stool has metal legs wipe them clean and scrape away any chipping paint. I invest only one hour of time per bar stool. Step 6 continue to pull the fabric to the bottom of the bar stool and tack it in place with a staple or nail. After redoing our kitchen last fall i had originally planned to just get rid of these bar stools.

Lay your fabric face down on a flat surface. You could try to recover on top of existing. See the how to reupholster results at the end of the video. It looks like this will be a difficult task as you can see the entire back of the stool.

You just need to repeat the process with the remaining stools and you will have what looks like brand new stools. Now you have finished reupholstering your first bar stool. If the stool has wooden legs use sandpaper to finish and smooth down the surface of the legs and to remove any unwanted paint. Let s face it you don t have to purchase a bunch of fabric to recover a bar stool so you re allowed to splurge a little.

I am using a high quality velvet fabric with a luxurious touch. Step one i combined a few simple actions in step one. Remove your bar stool seats mine just pop right out you may need to remove yours with a screwdriver or drill.