Can You Recover Bar Stools

Recover your bar stools step by step.

Can you recover bar stools.

Consider making a slip cover for the back and recover the seat stapling underneath. Just pick out your fabric upholstery fabric about 1 yd for each bar stool should be enough get. You might be able to find a coordinating print for the seat and leave the back only recovering the seat. 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.

It looks like this will be a difficult task as you can see the entire back of the stool. Flip the stool as you tack to verify the fabric or vinyl remains flat on the seat. I am using a high quality velvet fabric with a luxurious touch. Give your bar stools a new life with these step by step instructions for doing a bar stool makeover.

Step one i combined a few simple actions in step one. The longer they sat in our basement though the more i considered attempting to give them a second life. Lay your fabric face down on a flat surface. 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. You could try to recover on top of existing. 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. If you encounter an excess fabric you may want to trim it down after you ve tightly secured it to the stool.

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

This way you can finish and paint the legs. If the stool has wooden legs use sandpaper to finish and smooth down the surface of the legs and to remove any unwanted paint. Remove your bar stool seats mine just pop right out you may need to remove yours with a screwdriver or drill.