Still Unpacking Boxes - How To Style Bookcases 373rd Inspire Me Tuesday The Update Of The Pool The Story Behind My Antique China CabinetGive new life to your rocker by replacing its worn out rush seat with a fresh new cushioned seat. Simple wood chairs are a treasure because their looks can be adapted to so many styles of decor. Rush seats can be handsome on Colonial and country-style chairs, but worn rush seats may benefit from a change or replacement. Replacing a rush seat with an upholstered cushion seat is easy, even for beginning DIY decorators. Simple tools and materials give an old favorite chair new life. Cut and pull off worn rush fibers with heavy shears and pliers. Trace an outline of the chair seat on the cardboard. One way to do this is to lay the cardboard on the edge of a flat work surface, and then turn the chair upside down and lay the seat on the cardboard. Measure the dimensions of the chair seat and the size of the tops of the legs where they meet the seat.

Trim your cardboard pattern so you can lay it flat on top of the chair seat rails, letting the tops of the legs protrude. Allow 1/8 inch of space at each corner so the newly upholstered cushion will fit close to but not over the tops of the legs. Trace your pattern on the plywood, and cut it out with the jig- or coping saw. Lay the seat pattern on the 2-inch foam, and cut out a piece of foam 1/8 of an inch larger than the plywood on all sides. Coat the plywood with glue and press the foam down onto it firmly. Working one edge at a time, apply a very thin coat of glue to the vertical edge of the cushion to make a rounded edge. Press down with your fingers or a pencil, holding the pressed edge long enough for glue to set and hold. Continue gluing and holding until you have rounded the edge of the whole cushion. Cut a sheet of foam padding 2 inches wider and longer than the padded seat form. Cover the cushion with foam, wrapping it snugly over the edges of the wood.

Staple the foam to the plywood. An easy way to do this is to staple the foam once in the center of each side. This anchors the foam while you gather and staple down the material at each corner. Then staple the edges between the side centers and corners. Trim away excess foam with scissors. Cut fabric to cover the foam cushioning. Cut a small nick in the hem of the fabric at the middle of the front and back edges. This will help you line up the fabric for stapling over the cushioning and is especially important if you are using a fabric with stripes or other linear patterns. Wrap the fabric over the cushion, lining up the centering nicks by eye. Pulling the fabric firm, staple it to the plywood. Fit the seat cushion onto the chair, and turn the chair with its cushion upside down on the work surface. Drill two evenly spaced screw holes on each of the seat rails, making sure you drill into the plywood but not into the cushion. Fasten the cushion to the chair rails with screws. Trace the cardboard pattern on muslin or other light material to make a bottom cover for the chair seat.

Keeping the chair inverted, staple or glue the cover fabric to the bottom of the chair rails. Things You Will Need Heavy shears Jigsaw or hand coping saw 1/2-inch terylyne or polyester sheet padding Sheet-weight or other midweight fabric Wood screws, 1/2 inch longer than the chair seat rails are deep Muslin or similar weight plain-colored fabric References This Old House: How to Upholster a Dining Chair Kessels Upholstering Limited: Recover Your Dining Seatsoffice depot desk chairs on sale Love Your Room: Quickly Change That Rush Bench Seat!brown office chair walmart Photo Credits Comstock Images/Stockbyte/Getty Imagesmakeup artist chairs sydney

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