New Chair Upholstering

I found this beauty of a chair left beside the dumpster a while back. After checking thoroughly for any bug problems I took it in and gave it a new home. It moved with me to my new apartment and since I'm making a new home just for myself, I decided to give the chair a new look as well.

The seat comes off nicely from it's frame. It was simply covered with fabric and nailed with furniture nails. I took the nails off and noticed the chair had been re-upholstered several times, and the seat was full of nail holes. So nails were out of the question.

The Chair without it's coverings

The out-driven nails and the foam I used for padding

Next I cut the foam padding in shape and glued it on the sides of the seat so as to keep it in place. I placed the fabric underneath and cut it in form as well. Then it was time to tighten the fabric  onto the seat with strings.

Like this.

Last I just gently pushed the seat back into the frame. All finished! The orange fabric is leftover from an old linen table cloth which I dyed and used to make a jacket for my grandma. Re-purpose everything!