Reupholstery Tools Scavenger Hunt
I have come to the sad conclusion that in order to bring home my grandmothers sofa… eventually… I will probably need to recover or slipcover some piece of furniture. The problem is that her sofa and green chair have bright jewel-tone green and plum running through, and mine have olive, gold, sage and the smallest bit of wine. It doesn’t sound so bad. And it isn’t sooo bad. But I think when we get it all in the same room it won’t be pretty.
I think we actually have all of the tools for reupholstery, except welting. But I’m going to have to brave DHs scary domain aka the garage to find out. Weirdly, I found a staple gun, in an unopened package at Grandmas house. Which is as funny as her having sewing supplies.
Learn to Do It Yourself: How to Reupholster Furniture
Necessary Tools
In order to begin your reupholstery project, you will need to collect a few reupholstery supplies. It is important that you have:* a pair of needle nose pliers
* a staple gun (with staples) or upholstery tacks
* a rubber mallet
* a pair of sharp scissors
* welting (cloth used to trim along the edges of furniture)
* glue gun
* cotton batting (to make the furniture soft to sit on)Depending upon the piece of furniture that you are reupholstering, you may also want to find a friend to help you out. It can sometimes be tricky to tackle reupholstering on your own.
I have a few options for reupholstery avoidance, all of which are equally ridiculous in my mind:
- Soon to be 18 year old stepson moves out; and we get to reposses his bedroom. He claims to be moving out in a week. But I’m sure we won’t repossess his bedroom anytime soon. He has one more year left of high school. And last time he “moved in” with his biomom she kept him for a total of three days.
- Even if #1 happens, we’d put the grandma furniture in the room adjacent to the family room, which means it might look weird next to each other anyway.
- DH will have a meltdown over all the Gaulic furniture and demand that I get rid of either one set or the other; in which case the other unmatching set would go to somebody else’s house. (The meltdown could totally happen. But I don’t think I can part with my Grandmas sofa. And for sure I can’t part with my great-great-grandfathers library chair. So we’d be on antique furniture which is fine for me, but not so much if you’re six feet tall.)
- The other sofa (that doesn’t live here, is at Grandmas and I haven’t measured) is smaller than I think and will fit in my bedroom or other slightly odd, but okay place.
I’m sure you can see why 16 yards of upholstery fabric on clearance and a staple gun are looking good right now.
