Showing posts with label Kroehler chair upholstery fabric dyi. Show all posts
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Tuesday, July 8, 2014

Have a seat

A little upholstery took place last few days... As one of my bday gift i got stanley upholstery gun ( woo woo - thank you babe) i could finally give a new life to classic Kroehler chair. Thats how it looked at very beginning when we just got it: 
Thats the guy on the right. mr spector wanted us to keep original upholstery so at first we tried to wash it.......



That did not go well - the ivory fabric turned yellowish at some spots - i had no idea why but that mystery was resolved after i decided to give a try in upholstering it and had to take the old material off....


Inside that fabric was covered with sth i would described as thick glue so apparently when i was trying to wash it and added hot water this gluey substance melted and went through fabric so that it made those ugly spots.... But then again i was pretty happy we can try with different fAbric as. Original one was kinda out of date... I removed kroehler sign, legs and started to getting fabric off




We get rid of buttons and trim is dome completely diffferent - it was my first upholstery of a chair  and i was trying to follow some rules i would fund on different blogs but in the end u just try to figure it outt your own way


And finally - thats how it looklike now : still needs a few more nails here and then but in my opinion - and mr Spector says it too- it lookspretty nice....


We still need to stain legs as well but i am already happy for how it looks like now :)




UPDATE:

There it is with stained legs :)