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Give your shabby old chairs a custom makeover!
Our office chairs at CO+K HQ were beginning to look a bit shabby (it must have been from all the hard work we do here on the site ;) ), so we teamed up with Zazzle to give them a makeover using our own print and their new custom fabric collection.

Tom set to work designing a cute print featuring our scissors and cute logo of all the crafts we do and then I got busy reupholstering.

Note of warning: the original fabric was not fireproof, so we had to treat it to make it safe for upholstery use.

Posted by Cat Morley from London, United Kingdom • Published 27th August 2015 • See Cat Morley's 1146 projects »

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Step 1
Start by deconstructing the original chairs while keeping a mental note (or scribbled note) of how it was put together.
Step 2
We had to unscrew two bars and then seam rip the original fabric from the sides.
Step 3
Lay the original seat covering down on a flat surface.
Step 4
Lay the new fabric over the old cover, fold under the rough edge of the fabric so it matches the size of the original seat.
Step 5
Making sure the fabric is taught and straight, pin the top and bottom of the fabric to the seat, in between the original stitched lines of the seat.
Step 6
Sew along the previous stitched lines with your sewing machine.
Step 7
Make sure all the lines look as neat as they did on the original cover.
Step 8
Finally stitch around the outside edges of the seat to secure the new fabric in place.
Step 9
Now the tricky bit... put your new cover back on your old seats, making sure it's night and taught to sit on.