Office Chair Re-Cover

Wanna Turn a regular old office chair.....

Into that?

You can do it! Here's what you need:

Some cute material
An old chair you want to re-cover
A staple-gun
A hammer
An iron/ironing board (if your material is wrinkly)

Here we go....brace yourself for a quick, fun, and easy project!
First, iron your material.
Next, remove the back of the chair, and the seat of the chair.
If your chair is like mine, you need to remove the front part of the backrest, from the back part. {Excuse the icky ironing board...we (the ironing board and I) had a little applique mishap a couple days ago....}
Then lay all your pieces on your material to make sure you have enough.
Fold the material over the edges of the seat, etc to make sure you have enough to pull over and staple.
Do that on all four sides.
Cut off your excess material.
Staple away! I think it's easiest if you do one staple on each of the four sides (pulling it tight as you do each side). This keeps it from shifting as you staple the rest of the material to the chair. *The KEY is to KEEP PULLING TIGHT. Pull tight before each staple.*
On the corners, just try to pull as tight as you can and make the edge look as smooth as you can. Doing a nice "hospital corner" or "military corner" or whatever you want to call it, will help with this.
You'll notice after it's all stapled that you've got a lot of excess material hanging down.
Trim the material as close to the staples as you can (because you don't want it hanging down under the chair or it will look sloppy.)
Once it's all trimmed, it should look like this underneath!
Do this same process to all of your pieces: Seat cushion, backrest, and back of the backrest.
Now re-attach the two halves of the backrest. I used staple-gun nails They were so small you could barely tell they were there.
Now re-attach all the screws, etc and get your seat put on.
Voila! The seat part is done!

Yay! The backrest is on, and lookin' sharp. See, you can't even tell where I put the nails, can you? (Okay, if you click on the picture and enlarge it you can, but STILL!)
Your chair is now complete, and doesn't it look pretty?
Now my chair and craft desk are matchy-matchy.

Any questions? Feel free to ask.

Happy Crafting!