Share with your friends I have been called the denim whisperer, because of all the things that I make with old jeans. From sunglasses cases, magazine racks and pocket organisers. I just love upcycling with old denim. So when my office chair was in need of a makeover then this Ikea hack had to involve denim. This isn’t my first denim chair upcycle, in the past I’ve upcycled a dining room chair and foot stool with old jeans. I’m sure it won’t be my last either. Upholstering in denim is a lot easier than it looks, especially with a bit of staple gun magic. This post contains amazon affiliate links for your convenience. Click here to see my disclosure policy. Draw round the seat pad onto a large piece of denim allowing for 1cm seam allowance and cut out. Repeat so that you have 2 identical denim pieces. Pin and sew right sides together leaving an opening for the pad. Turn the denim right sides out, squeeze in pad into the cover and stitch up the opening. This project only took me a couple of hours and I love this Ikea hack of my office chair.

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Share with your friendsi am finally getting a chance to blog about the new ikea poang chair slipcover i made...  do you know how hard it is when the kiddos are awake to find time to blog? where to buy original barcelona chairright now wyatt is pulling on my leg saying "mommy, mommy" and leo is trying to wrestle with him while watching cartoons... you would think i might blog when the kids are napping... but seriously there are too many other things to be done... or tv shows to finally catch up on... :)dining room chair inserts i apologize for not having pictures of each step by step process... i had originally meant to follow a tutorial i found online and not take any pictures, but when i started i realized that that chair tutorial didn't account for the attached head pillow like mine has... so i had to work from scratch...clear plastic chair suppliers

so it was easiest to do a slipcover that went over top of the old cover... no messing around with padding etc...  where to buy outdoor rocking chairplus i could wash it easily (potty accidents and throw up happen you know!) and if we got bored of the new look, i could just go back to the old one for a while... i also found my fabric at an amazing price ... $14!!! i think a replacement cover at ikea is around $75... so if it turned out, it was definitely worth the try! i actually got 3 meters of fabric for $14... but i think you only need 2 since i have tons leftover. fabric should be 54" wide. i also used about a 20" piece of velcro for folding over the fabric at the end (under the pillow). i started by laying out the fabric on the floor and placing my cushion on top. cut 2 equal pieces of fabric with about 2-3" extra on either side of the cushion (not sure how much to account for thickness, i didn't want to cut too short).

lay out one piece of fabric on the floor, face up. place the cushion on top and lay the other cushion face down on top of the cushion. pinch the pieces together and pin. remove the cushion carefully, then sew down the 2 sides - leaving each end open. slide the slipcover onto the cushion to check to see how snug the fit is... (i ended up having to pinch and re-sew an extra inch in to get the snug fit i wanted..) with the slipcover ON the cushion - and cushion right side up - pin the fabric at the bottom of the cushion, conforming tightly to it. (see the tutorial to see what I mean). the idea to pin at the bottom of the cushion was so when it was turned right side out, the seam would not be as noticeable. you are pinning the corners at an angle - look at that tutorial to see how. carefully remove the cushion again and sew the bottom. try the slipcover on and see if it's a nice fit. (i realize how annoying it is to take it on and off multiple times!!)

once you have the desired look, then you can trim the extra fabric on the sides and bottom to about a 1/4". turn right side out and put on cushion once again. put the cushion on the chair and pull fabric tightly around the top cushion. mark where the fold is and where you will need to put velcro.. i didn't leave enough extra fabric at the top for this part, so my velcro is lower on the pillow than i would have liked...  but it still looks great.. here is where i did the velcro - this is the underside of the pillow.. when sewing on the velcro pieces, you should also fold under the ends of the fabric so that it has a "finished" look to the ends when you are folding and velcro-ing later. what it looks like using velcro - i just pulled and bunched the fabric tightly and velcroed it down... there might be a better way of finishing this, but this was quick and looked fine. faster than a zipper. close up view of the underside of the pillow with the velcro done