Read more on PRF select your local store We’ll collect your products and have them delivered to you! Get a hand with assemblingyour purchases. Realise your dream today with our 6, 12 or 24 months interest free offer. Enjoy your purchase today. Need help getting it home? Let us take care of that for you. CA, East Palo Alto Go to Upholstered chairsIn a whirlwind of activity last night, I completed the dining room chair seat covers in a decorative mossy green and blue fabric. My parents arrive tomorrow and it was one of my last sewing tasks to be completed. Now I can focus on grocery shopping and the menu for the week ahead! We recently purchased this small dining room table from IKEA, as we needed something compact. Although the store can be hit or miss in quality, it generally offers functional furniture that fits my nomadic lifestyle. I picked out the round table shown above but wasn’t thrilled about the chair options.
I liked the Borje chair style but the chairs came with nasty, cheap white fabric cushion covers. Fortunately, the cushion covers were removable so we bought the chairs with the plan that I would sew new seat covers. I’ve updated seat covers before and think it’s such a great way to turn a boring chair into a customized, beautiful object. All you need is an inexpensive staple gun and fabric, and a little creativity. My only concern with the chairs was on which fabric to use. Not only did I order more than I needed, the company mistakenly sent me a couple extra yards! I love the fabric but wasn’t sure if it was the pattern or color I wanted in the living space. Since I haven’t had time to shop for anything better, it became the lead choice by default. Making an IKEA Seat Cover If I were upholstering the cushion in fabric, I would lay the cushion on the fabric and cut around it, allowing enough excess fabric to compensate for the cushion thickness. I would then use a staple gun to attach the fabric around the cushion with staples placed on the underside.
I could have done the staple approach but liked the idea of removable cushion covers. I’m a spiller so being able to remove the seat covers and wash them will be a benefit. Since I already had a seat cover in hand, I cut apart the main seams so I could use it as my cushion cover pattern. I put it on my fabric and marked around it before cutting the fabric to size. It’s important to make sure you don’t rush. I like to rush. Make sure that you align the pattern the same way on your fabric for each cushion you cut out. I have one chair on which the fabric pattern runs in the opposite direction. It’s not a big deal, but I notice it and it annoys me. Also, I found it helpful to take photos of the existing cushion cover before and after I cut it apart. You may think that you’ll remember what it looked like, but once you cut it apart there’s no going back. I quickly forgot how the corners folded and ended up taking off another cushion to see how it had been constructed.
Overall, it only took me about an hour to whip these out last night. The fabric color is growing on me but is making me reconsider our couch cushions. For now, I’m going to enjoy the upcoming holiday and worry about that some other time.Coffee Table For Small SpaceCoffee Table With StorageLift Up Coffee TableSpace CoffeeLift TableTable SmallCafé WestElm RusticTables WestForward23 Insanely Clever Products For Your Small Space | A coffee table that lifts up to become a desk. $549.00 at West ElmPersonalise your IKEA chairs with Bemz covers, available in 250+ beautiful fabrics. Published on October 30th, 2013 | Materials: Poäng Chair and Footstool, Korndal Beige Cushions Description: I love my Poäng, but I had nowhere to put it after moving to my new house. I also needed a comfortable new office chair for work and the Poäng fit the bill. I like having a place to sit back when the stress level is high, and I can type while sitting near the end of the chair. I decided to make a new chair cover because the cushions were stained after several years of use.
Unfortunately, I can’t sew well enough to make it look professional (I did manage to make new covers for my Börje dining room chairs, but that only required scissors and a staple gun). I also couldn’t find any fabric I liked for the job. But I can crochet… I found a free flower pattern on Pinterest and started making motifs using a G hook and all of the blue and purple yarn in my stash. After making a rectangle about the size of the front of the cushion, I crocheted a stretchy back V stitch (double crochet, chain 1, double crochet, repeat) for enough rows to just barely stretch across the back. Then I joined the top and bottom (slip stitch, chain 1, slip stitch in other side). I stretched the edges and joined them in a similar fashion. After working in all of the ends, it looks great! It’s not easily removable, but it cleans easily with fabric cleaners. And it only cost about $10 because I needed to buy new yarn for the back. I really like the V stitch on the back and I think the entire cushion would look good covered with that as well.
It shapes around the cushion very easily. Stripes would be very easy to do that way. Granny squares might also work, but I don’t think they would stretch as well. The requested page title contains invalid characters: "%C3". Return to Main Page. make / manufacturer: IKEA model name / number: BÖRJE size / dimensions: 21 5/8 x 17 3/8 x 39 3/8 " $150 OBO for all 6 chairs. MSRP = $49 x 6 = $294 Chairs are in excellent condition. Recently reupholstered (though already stained by our little girls and their friends). Covers are easily removable for washing/cleaning/reupholstering. Reupholstering is a cinch and a great way to give your dining room fresh makeovers. All you need is a staple gun and material. It took my wife just an hour or so for all 6 chairs. Please contact me only if you're interested in all 6 chairs. Frame: Solid oak, brown-black stain Seat: Fiberboard, Polyurethane foam 2.2 lb/cu.ft. Width: 17 3/8 "