Re-covering an Office Chair

   Ok, so I have been on the hunt for a cute, thrifty chair I could re-make into a crafting chair for my side of our desk. Between the thrift stores and yard sales, I haven't had any luck. Today at Wally-World, I decided I would just get a regular office chair, but I didn't want to spend a lot of money on it. I got one of the cheapest ones for about $20 because I knew I could just cover it with something cuter!

Here's what I did...

This is the chair I got, and my hubby putting it together like a beast hahaha.

I told him to wait on putting the bottom and head rest on so I could cover them first. If yours is already put together, just take these two pieces off.

My head rest had a plastic backing on it, which is fine with me because it will hide my messiness! I just had to pop it off the back to get started.

I stretched out one yard of fabric and laid out the two pieces with enough fabric to pull around all sides.

I traced around where I wanted to cut and then cut two pieces out.

To apply the fabric, I used a light duty staple gun I bought from a hardware store, but you can purchase from any craft store or Wally-World too.

I pulled the sides tight and began stapling all the way around, trying not to leave a lot of corner bumps.

After you finish stapling, it will probably look something like this.

Then, you want to cut off a lot of the excess fabric or you will be able to see it hanging down from the bottom of the chair, and that's no good.

Then I did the head rest the exact same way.

I flattened the fabric corners with more staples and popped the plastic backing back on the head rest.

Then I had two chair pads that looked like this!

Jasper interrupted to play a little ball, he's worth the extra time! :)

Finally, my wonderful hubby put the parts back together and, TADA! A better-looking, re-covered chair!

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