When upholstered furniture becomes unusable, the owner has only two options: to purchase a new one in a furniture showroom or to restore the old one in a specialized workshop.
Do-it-yourself sofa upholstery will significantly save the budget and time spent on finding a master and transporting the product.
Repair of upholstered furniture is a very specific process that requires knowledge of the technology and properties of materials, certain skills in working with tools. In furniture production, there are several concepts that for the layman have practically no differences.
Nevertheless, initially it is worth determining what work can be done at home without resorting to the services of professionals:
Upholstery is the work of replacing the upholstery and interior filling of the sofa. May include work on a slight change in the design of the product. All work can be done at home without the use of specialized tools.
Repair of upholstered furniture is a process associated with the restoration of the functionality of the product. It may include the replacement of frame elements, repair or replacement of the transformation mechanism, hauling. Do-it-yourself sofa repair requires knowledge in the field of carpentry and plumbing, possession of a variety of tools. Such work is best done in a specialized workshop.
Restoration - includes repair of the frame in full or partial replacement of elements, hauling, restoration of functionality, design, paintwork, decorative elements and fittings. All work is carried out with the preservation of the original stylistic solution of the product. Furniture restoration implies a fairly extensive list of works, the implementation of which is best entrusted to a professional.
If you are not a professional furniture joiner with a workshop equipped according to all the rules, then you can do only relatively simple work with your own hands - minor repairs and upholstery of upholstered furniture.
The first thing to do is to determine the scope of work that needs to be done as part of the hauling.
A very common cause of restoration work is the deformation and failure of the springs and the jamming of the transformation mechanisms.
In the models of the first half of the last century, a lump (algae), sawdust and horsehair were used as a filler. In sofas, a sample of the second half of the 20th century, as a rule, batting and a leveling layer of foam rubber were used as a filler. In modern budget models, the springs have been replaced with several layers of polyurethane foam, latex, padding polyester, pressed felt. In sofas of the middle and premium price segments, struttofiber or periotek are used as a filler - non-woven materials with high strength and elasticity.
Spring sofas can be equipped with a spring block of a dependent (independent) type or “snakes”, which are a support for the filler.
Sofas equipped with serpentine springs have not been produced for a long time and have practically gone out of use. That is why we will consider the stages of work for a classic sofa-book with a spring block.
Regardless of the condition, filling with hair, algae, sawdust, batting, felt must be replaced. Foam rubber and latex are changed as needed.
To pull the sofa, you need to prepare some materials and a standard tool that almost any man has in the bins. The only thing that stands out from the standard set is a furniture stapler, which can be pneumatic, mechanical or electric. The first requires a compressor with a receiver, which is not worth buying for the sake of one constriction. Mechanical samples are autonomous and relatively cheap. The electric stapler is very convenient to use, but requires a power supply.
The choice of materials for the waist should be discussed in more detail.
Materials should be purchased as needed. In some cases, the upholstery can simply be sewn up, (if there is minor damage) washed and re-stretched onto the soft part of the product. How to sew a sofa with your own hands? Very simple: you need to remove the upholstery, put a patch on the inside of the damage, after which the cut can be reused.
If the upholstery has become unusable, then fabric will be required to sew the cover. The choice of material for upholstery is a very difficult process, because each fabric has certain properties and characteristics.
Among the large number of upholstery fabrics presented on the domestic market, it is impossible not to mention the various options for leatherette. These materials have excellent strength characteristics, resistance to moisture and abrasion, ease of use. The disadvantage of all leather substitutes is flammability and deformation when exposed to high temperatures.
In addition to the above materials, modern sofas can use holofiber in the form of a mat, which perfectly retains its structure during deformation. The most common material used in classic budget sofas is foam rubber. Of all the fillers - foam rubber is the most short-lived and cheap material.
Since sofas are subject to intensive use, experts do not recommend using foam rubber as the only filler.
To disassemble the sofa, you need to perform a number of operations:
In principle, this process of disassembly can be considered completed. Now that all the elements are in sight, you can assess the damage and determine the scope of work.
To do this is quite simple. Use a screwdriver to pry and pull out all the retaining brackets. This process must be done as carefully as possible so as not to damage the upholstery fabric, which, even with heavy wear, can be used as a pattern for sewing a new cover. The anti-stapler will significantly increase the quality and speed up the time to complete this work - a simple but effective tool that can be purchased very inexpensively at any specialized store.
Filler layers are hidden under the upholstery fabric. As a rule, in spring sofas this is foam rubber, under which there is batting, latex or other, more modern non-woven material. Next, there may be a layer of felt or burlap, which play the role of a layer between the filler and the springs. If there is damage, then the entire filler or its separate layer must be replaced.
Changing the foam rubber in the sofa with your own hands is very simple, because this material is held on the filler or frame with glue. We tear off the old and glue the new material. For these works, any glue based on acetone, dichloroethane is suitable. You can simply purchase inexpensive and affordable glue No. 88.
The springs in the sofa are most often prone to damage due to high loads. If there are no broken and sagging springs in the block, the frame of the block is intact and there is no play between the elements, then it makes no sense to replace it. If there is at least one broken spring, then it is better to change the entire block at once. The thing is that replacing the springs in the sofa with your own hands is a very laborious process that requires certain skills, experience and the availability of a tool. To change the block, it is tedious to remove the brackets holding it to the frame, install the new one in its original place, fix the frame on the frame with brackets or nails.
When replacing, pay attention to the substrate, which protects the frame from abrasion and helps reduce squeaks. For the substrate, it is better to choose a sheet of pressed felt, 3-5 mm thick.
Now everything is simple: after installing the spring block, (if necessary) replace the filler layers, pull on a new cover and shoot it to the frame with brackets using a construction stapler. The last stage of the do-it-yourself sofa upholstery is assembly, which is done in the reverse order: installing the soft part on the frame, fixing the transformation mechanism, attaching the armrests.
In this publication, we examined in detail how to drag a sofa with our own hands step by step. In fact, the process of upholstering upholstered furniture is quite simple. The difficulty usually arises when creating and stretching a new case. Cutting and tailoring is better to entrust to specialists.
To avoid sagging fabric, make the upholstery of the sofa crosswise: start in front, then stretch the fabric and shoot from the opposite side. After fixing on four sides, you should stretch the fabric between the back and seat and “shoot” with staples to the frame.
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How to pull a sofa with their own hands at home, it is interesting to many rational and economical owners and housewives. The goals that they pursue are not only updating the interior, but also saving money. Buying a new sofa to replace one worn out or damaged by animals is a very expensive pleasure. A huge amount of positive feedback about this procedure is also pushing for a constriction, as well as a myriad of beautiful photos of constricted sofas marked “before” and “after”.
Sofas have long entered the life of people. The first copies of this upholstered furniture were a large number of pillows stacked one on top of the other and randomly laid on the stage or directly on the floor. And today, such designs can be seen in most Turkish and Asian restaurants.
Upholstered furniture is always present in modern apartments or houses. Modern sofas are more complex in design than their predecessors, and are represented by a large number of models. Most of all, this upholstered furniture is in the living rooms. Also often sofas are used instead of beds in children's rooms and bedrooms. Not quite standard models can be seen in hallways, on balconies and loggias, as well as in kitchens.
All sofas are distinguished by functionality. The easiest to use and cheapest are impromptu kitchen corner sofas. They are followed by book sofas. They got their name due to the similarity with the book. It was these sofas that formed the basis of the assortment in Soviet furniture stores. Currently, the nomenclature of upholstered furniture and its model range has expanded significantly.
Sofas are chosen according to their massiveness and functionality. For living rooms, corner sofas or fixed structures are most often purchased. The upholstery material is often leather (both artificial and natural) or expensive jacquards with silk threads. The color scale allows to satisfy the most refined tastes of consumers.
For small rooms, the following types of roll-out blocks are considered the most suitable:
Leather or leatherette sofas in the bedrooms are inappropriate to use. First of all, because the material wears out quickly. And such furniture will be slippery. Sofas that replace the bed are upholstered with breathable materials. They are inexpensive and practical. Such furniture is elastic to the touch and is often made on spring orthopedic blocks that provide healthy sleep and comfort to the sleeping person.
Kitchen sofas are mostly narrow and rather hard. Sleeping on them is unlikely to work, and sitting on them for a long time is also uncomfortable. Sofas for the kitchen most often have wear-resistant upholstery that is easy to clean and resistant to dirt.
Over time, absolutely all sofas become unusable. In them, not only wooden structures break, springs sag or mechanisms fail, but the coating also wears out. And if serious damage to the frame is difficult to fix at home, without experience and special devices, then updating the upholstery is quite within the power of everyone at home. You will learn how to do this with a minimum of costs in this article.
Do-it-yourself sofa upholstery is a difficult process. In order for the work to be of high quality, it must be done without fuss. That is why the upholstery of the sofa should begin with the preparation of materials and tools.
To update the coverage you will need:
You may also need a camera or camcorder. With this device, you can easily recreate a picture of the process of disassembling the sofa. This will help you stay calm when assembling your "new" sofa and avoid mistakes.
Materials that may be needed when hauling a sofa at home are:
In addition to all this, when replacing upholstery, sometimes you may need a glue gun and rods for it, ordinary glue and brushes for applying it, foam plastic, bars, plywood, nails and screws.
The technique and complexity of the upholstery depends on the design of upholstered furniture. The more complex the mechanism and the more decorative or voluminous details, the more time and effort it will take to disassemble and reassemble the sofa.
The main criteria by which sofas can be classified are functionality and upholstery material. The appearance and price of upholstered furniture depends on these indicators.
Sofas in living rooms and halls can be classic - straight or corner. In most cases, the design of such furniture is simple and non-functional, and the sofas themselves are rather bulky. In bedrooms, on the contrary, folding models are most often used that can quickly transform into a full-fledged sleeping place, as well as baby sofas, which, when assembled, take up very little space. Sofas in living rooms can be upholstered in natural or artificial leather, as well as expensive fabrics. Such furniture usually has many decorative elements and decorations. In addition to all this, these sofas do not have rigid spring blocks inside the pillows.
The choice of the main fabric depends primarily on the conditions under which and for what purposes the sofa will be used in the future. The best materials for upholstering sofas used in various rooms are listed below:
Kitchens and hallways:
Living rooms and halls:
As an auxiliary fabric, cotton fabrics, canvas, interlining and nylon are used. A synthetic winterizer and other fillers are needed to fill rollers and sofa cushions, as well as to fix foam rubber on curved parts. Foam rubber and other substrates are distinguished by density and thickness. Notably, by changing the amount or thickness of the pads used, the softness of the furniture and its appearance can be changed.
It is very difficult for a non-specialist to determine the amount of material required for hauling before disassembling the sofa. It is also not easy to identify what kind of material may be needed in the work. Among other things, it is very likely that when opening the upholstery, there will be a need to replace leaky frame laths, plywood or fasteners.
All those who have decided to try their hand at resurfacing a sofa with their own hands should remember that the process of changing the appearance of upholstered furniture without sewing and designing skills is impossible, and the time to achieve the final result can last from three days to several weeks. You should also be aware that the cost of hauling at home will not be much lower than the price of similar work in specialized workshops, because fabric and other components will need to be purchased at a retail price. In addition, the workshop will not only be able to renew the outer layer, but also
If you are ready to do it yourself or do not know where you can return the furniture to its original appearance, then the next section will be useful to you.
Step-by-step instructions, following which you can make the old sofa look like a new one, looks something like this:
You can see the sofa upholstery in more detail in the master class on the video attached to this section of the article. In the video tutorial, the master furniture maker will talk in detail about the rules and show the whole process of updating the appearance of the sofa. By analogy with it, you can drag soft chairs.
In conclusion of this section, I would like to give some useful tips regarding what you need to focus on when reupholstering sofas with your own hands.
Once done with your own hands, changing the upholstery of the sofa will help to believe in yourself. And over time, this activity can become a great hobby and a source of additional income.
As evidenced by the reviews of many owners of mini-workshops for the repair of upholstered and cabinet furniture, it was the change of fabric on an old sofa that became the first impetus for opening your own business, which, by the way, brings good profits in a short time.
We hope that this article will instill in many readers the confidence that it is quite possible to pull over the old, but very beloved sofa itself.
Sooner or later, any furniture needs updating. Think it's difficult? Not! And now we will prove it to you.
In most cases, upholstered furniture requires replacement of upholstery, so after that, proceed to repair your favorite sofa or rare chair. And believe me, you can do it yourself.
Upholstery materials
Like any other job, this one also begins with the necessary preparation, acquiring the right materials, finding tools and preparing the workplace.
Of the tools you will need:
Advice! When choosing upholstery, pay attention to its density and quality. Depending on the filler, consider the ability of the fabric to stretch. Then choose its texture, color and pattern, suitable for the interior design of your apartment.
By dragging the furniture yourself, you have the opportunity to change its design completely. Everything will depend on the number of layers of upholstery and on the chosen filler - cotton wool, batting, synthetic winterizer, foam rubber, down, horsehair, coconut fibers, polymeric materials.
The choice of material that is best to cover it depends on what kind of stuffing will be inside your sofa or chair. If foam rubber is placed inside, the upholstery should have an average tension force, fluff or cotton wool should be weak. Not the last place in the final decision belongs to.
The best and most popular option, sold in a very wide variety - tapestries. They have the best performance and practicality.
Jacquard and velor are also in demand. If you like artificial materials for the repair of upholstered furniture, for example, leatherette, be sure to pay attention to its quality. It should not smell sharp and unpleasant. The price of the selected fabric is formed not only from quality, the brand plays a significant role.
So that nothing bothers you, the furniture must be dismantled, the sides, the seat (bed) and the back are dismantled.
Advice! If you are planning to move a set of upholstered furniture, consisting of armchairs and a sofa, start small. Thus, you will fill your hand and in practice you will understand what's what.
Material fixation
Choose a workplace, clear it of everything that might interfere with you, and start disassembling a sofa or chair. Remove fasteners - studs or staples.
Pry them off with a screwdriver and then pry them out with pliers.
Carefully remove the upholstery material. Don't throw it away, it will become your template for cutting new upholstery.
Attach the old fabric to the new material from the inside and outline the contour with a tailor's chalk or a narrow piece of laundry soap. Be sure to leave an allowance of 2-3 cm.
Note! You should not save on this, it is better to make an allowance a little more than to find out later that the workpiece is smaller than it should be and the whole thing is ruined.
Cut out your piece. Overcast its edges on a typewriter or overlocker to prevent their splitting.
When all the blanks are cut out, the filler is restored, you can proceed directly to the upholstery of the furniture.
Start stretching from the front and carefully work your way back. Thus, you will be able to hide all excess material and its folds.
Furniture Repair Tutorial
Fitting the seat by the sofa, start from its middle and move to the sides. Tuck the excess inside, and if there are a lot of them, cut off. If the fabric is stretched too much, its service life will be reduced.
If you fix the upholstery to furniture with self-tapping screws, screw them in so that they enter the frame to a depth of at least 2-2.5 cm.
A good alternative to screws and nails is a construction stapler. When choosing a tool, give preference to trusted manufacturers and models with a strong spring system.
We hope our article was useful to you. In order to more accurately understand the technological and practical issue, our website provides a detailed photo and video instruction in which you will find useful information on this issue.
It’s as if everyone has upholstered furniture in the house, which for several years in a row gets sidelong glances, because throwing away a hand rises, maybe antiques, or a present from your beloved mother-in-law for her birthday, and it’s unthinkable to use, since the shine is not at all the same but the creak remains. You can remove such a question once and for all - radically and festively take responsibility for yourself and save the family from a creaking tyrant. And you can try to drag sofa and give him another life. At a minimum, you can try it, throw it away anyway. If the fabric under the skin passes according to the needs of the living room interior, then it makes sense to choose more expensive leatherette. At a minimum, it should not spread from tension; its substrate must be moderately strong and moderately soft. Aroma. This is the scourge of inexpensive dermantin. As a rule, it is impossible to eradicate it, and if you can still somehow fight with it in a car, there are enough of its own aromas, and it evaporates faster in a car, then the hall can be transformed for a couple of months into a small branch of a chemical plant. Euphoria from drinking tea on such a sofa, most likely, will not be enough.
There are woven water-repellent fabrics with a special impregnation, but even qualified furniture makers do not always take on such material. It can be more capricious than the thickest tapestry. This also needs to be taken into account. No less important is the rigidity of the foam rubber. Basically, for the hauling of such products, foam rubber is selected either with HL stiffness or the hardest EL. Very soft foam rubber will quickly sag and crumble, very inexpensive ones will spread, too thick foam will not be easy to form, and too elegant leads to rapid wear of the upholstery, and not everyone will be comfortable sitting on it.
Padding do-it-yourself upholstered furniture, and especially a complex sofa, is not possible without a very small set of tools. Of course, you can do without, for example, a stapler, but then the hauling takes a hundred cosmic years and will turn from pleasure into a heavy duty. Here is an approximate tool kit that is needed to reupholster a sofa of any shape:
Talking about the innovative aspects of upholstery without knowing the design of the sofa is sinful idle talk, so we will limit ourselves to general advice provided by qualified furniture makers.
Basically, this is all you need to know about how to scrap an old sofa and save some money on buying a new one. And the money that you save can be spent on the purchase of an excellent professional stapler. Whether it is not enough that still it is required to drag.
Read also furniture for the hall in the room - photo.
Reloading an old sofa or a sofa that has lost its attractive appearance can be done independently, given certain technical points, especially if it is an old-fashioned model or a model with a common dependent spring block.
The latter require a detailed review of each spring and weave for shrinkage or corrosion. Avoid all this if you buy a sofa from the manufacturer umnye-divany.ru at an affordable price.
Sofas in which the spring blocks are independent require less attention.
Pay attention to the correct location and integrity of the capsule.
In addition to the above, just before the neck decision, experienced experts advise you to consider:
Be careful!
After the check mentioned above, using the building level, it is necessary to determine the relationship of one page to another. If the difference is too large (more than 8 cm), then the frame elements are worn and returned to the above pre-treatment list.
Errors of up to 5 cm or less can be easily repaired with a few additional layers of 1 cm thick foam rubber.
To perform this task efficiently, you will need at least a minimum set of tools:
The thickness of the clamps must be 14 mm.
The use of the 10 mm fastener is only possible when the upholstery is made of cotton fabrics. Otherwise, there is a high probability of premature termination of the attachment point at the maximum stress of the top point of the place.
This happens primarily when the couch is used as a threshold.
Most types of furniture are optimal.
Foam of this thickness easily attaches not only to brackets, but also to design line. Small millimeter slits between the leaves are necessary for air circulation and a quick restoration of the original design.
Therefore, it is better to use several rolls of thin material, for example, one board 25 cm thick.
This is the optimal kit for disassembling old clips and other fasteners.
The exceptions are antique models, in which the longitudinal fixation was made with a profiled wire (corrugated).
In this case, a metal file is added to the list of tools.
First, the side walls must be removed.
This will require:
Then remove the back and seat. As a rule, they are connected by two screws and a folding mechanism.
Start by fitting a roll of existing fabric to length and width. Then the workpiece is processed.
It is important to understand that each material has a limited degree of tension.
So you need to add one more on all four pages. In the end, you can stop and discard the surplus materials.
Immediately after cutting, do the following:
Be careful!
A sample with a pattern is mounted so that parts of the image do not fall under the clamp of the stapler. If this cannot be avoided, in such places to share the construction adhesive from the gun.
If the item has a small shape or creating a single line that runs through the section between the seat and back, sidewall, use furniture buttons.
In this case, do-it-yourself furniture tightening is no different from the factory.
The buttons should have a wide mount at the bottom. It is necessary to remove lines and connections with rigid frame members. If you want to do this, you may need a large needle. The stronger the line/thread compression, the more visually the design is set.
How to pull out the couch with your own hands, especially the basic elements, it became clear.
The side walls require more attention. Here you can not only update the look, but also a completely different shape: square, circle, etc.
How to pull out a sofa using only foam rubber, every new one is known. On the side wall, using 3-5 cm thick slabs, you can make your own custom frame, which is therefore covered with fabric and other decorative spots.
Loose furniture, especially side walls, starts with cutting.
Then you need:
Disclaimer: All files presented in this section are in public sources, provided that they are. I do not give advice on drawings, this part of it is not responsible for the consequences of their use.
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Gradual assembly of the frame. 8 pages.
Sofa Eurobook on the spring block.
327 photographs of the production process, without measurement. 200MB
Drawings of the foundations of the President of the USSR.
Corner sofa (full set of documentation) Photo, parts list, chip cutting table, project file in pro100
3D-project Sofa Eurobook in the form of pro100 program
Installation scheme for Mixotoyl and Sedaflex hooks.
Drawing a round chair. 6 sheets
Drawing chair.
Drawing a couch on slats. 9 sheets
Drawings made of rubber with Tik-Tak fur (a set of skeletons for documentation and cutting). About 100 sheets.
Drawing Eurocash can be picked up. 18 sheets
Sofa without a frame (documentation kit). 9 sheets
3D project corner as pro100
Book upholstery furniture
Book art furniture design (A. A. Belov)
Book Manufacture of upholstered furniture
Book Upholstery of upholstered furniture.
Master class (V. Gibert)
Book Upholstery and upholstery of upholstered furniture (A. Balavuyan)
The book Production of upholstered furniture (Rumyantsev)
Upholstery, decorators and decorators guide 1891
Installation drawings of the dolphin mechanism
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Unfortunately, over time, even the most expensive and beloved furniture loses its original appearance and comfort. Scuffs appear on the backs and seats, dents and dips in the most favorite places.
The upholstery fabric loses its luster and beauty, and the inner foam filler wears out, becomes thin and crumbles. But if the main wooden frame of the furniture is still strong and the performance of the mechanisms is not satisfactory, then you can give your favorite furniture a second chance by updating the upholstery fabric and replacing the filler - foam rubber.
Depending on the type and design of furniture, repair work can be done both independently and with the help of specialized companies.
Replacing foam on chair seats the easiest type of furniture repair that you can do yourself.
A non-professional can easily cope with this task. The main thing is to prepare tools and materials for repair in advance:
The most common types of upholstery fabrics are flock, velor, courtesan, jacquard and tapestry.
Foam rubber for chairs is chosen with a thickness of 20-40mm, a density of 30-40kg / m3.
Read more about the types and choice of furniture foam rubber in the article "Furniture foam rubber".
The procedure for replacing the foam rubber and upholstery of chairs:
Gently and evenly tighten the upholstery and secure it with brackets on the back of the seat. Fasten the corners of the seat without creases and large folds. Remove excess upholstery fabric;
Replacing furniture foam in a sofa or chair will require a much more serious approach. If you do not have experience in repairing upholstered furniture, then due to the large amount of painstaking work in the upholstery of sofas and armchairs, we advise you to contact furniture repair professionals.
Today, there are many companies on the market that are ready to replace foam rubber or complete upholstery repairs both at your home and on their territory.
You can entrust the choice of furniture fabric and foam rubber to professionals or independently purchase all the materials in specialized stores to your taste, taking into account the requirements for furniture materials.
Consultants of our company will help you calculate, select and purchase the right material for the repair of any upholstered furniture.
Our assortment always includes: foam rubber, synthetic winterizer, upholstery fabrics, artificial leather and accessories.
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The sofa is a very comfortable and multifunctional piece of furniture. When folded, it takes up little space, and when unfolded, it acts as an additional or permanent bed. The choice of such a folding sofa, regular or corner, can be a very good solution for small apartments, small rooms.
It is also suitable for hospitable hosts who often host guests.
But the more furniture is used, the more likely it is that the folding mechanism will wear out or break, any other problem will appear. Save your favorite piece of furniture can repair or complete alteration.
Alteration of the sofa should be taken as a major overhaul.
The process of alteration itself can consist of three types of services: repair, restoration, hauling.
Repair is usually needed if:
Restoration is needed to replace the filler and accessories, and the upholstery is usually ordered when you need to change the upholstery.
Most often, reworking of old sofas is required, not so much broken as worn out, partially or completely lost their functionality and aesthetic appearance.
The specialists of our atelier do an excellent job with all three designated types of services.
They often give the sofa a much more chic look than when it was purchased from the furniture store. For upholstery, a wide range of fabrics is used, including natural and eco-leather, tapestry, and more.
Change of functionality
Slightly less popular is the conversion of an old sofa into a full-fledged bed.
This can be considered a change in the functionality of the piece of furniture, since the folding mechanism is either completely removed or changed (for example, in order to create space for storing blankets and bed linen inside).
Also in our salon, you can order a change in shape into a corner sofa, alignment of the corner version into a standard one, increase or decrease in elements (legs, backs, handles) and so on.
A complete change of style is popular. As a rule, alteration of beds and sofas is ordered when the upholstery is torn or worn out, the spring block sags.
However, you can always order upholstery in order to refresh upholstered furniture, improve its appearance, adjust the design to the style of other furniture, interior space.
The main advantage of our studio is the strict adherence to the established terms of repair and really affordable prices for the entire range of services.
A complete conversion of the sofa into a bed by our specialists will not cost you a pretty penny and will not greatly affect the family budget.
We have vast experience in working with very complex projects - up to the alteration of the transforming mechanism, the complete replacement of the filler, and the reshaping of the appearance of the product. Taking the old frame as a basis, our specialists can create a completely new, original and unique sofa that will fully meet your taste and will not be repeated in someone else's interior.
How to pull a sofa with your own hands: is it worth it and how best to do it
The upholstery of any upholstered furniture gradually becomes unusable or ceases to match the new interior of the room. You should not rush with its complete replacement, because it is much cheaper to restore it. In order to change the upholstery on the sofa, there are two ways: call experts at home or take the furniture to the workshop, but you can try to perform this operation yourself. We will try to explain how to pull the sofa with your own hands, and under what circumstances this should not be done.
It should be noted that this operation is not always possible, since it requires certain experience and skills that only constant practice can provide. You should not replace upholstery on upholstered furniture yourself if:
If you decide to carry out the work yourself, you should prepare the necessary tools and materials and study the provided methodology.
Do-it-yourself sofa upholstery occurs in the following order.
When hauling furniture, you can slightly change its design by placing foam rubber or other filler in the necessary places.
Do-it-yourself upholstery of a corner sofa is carried out according to the same principles and in the same sequence as a regular sofa. But, since the design of the corner sofa is characterized by increased complexity, its disassembly and assembly take more time. It also makes cutting fabric and sewing new upholstery more difficult.
Therefore, at the beginning of work, you should adequately assess your strengths and skills. This can save you time and save materials.
As we already wrote at the very beginning of the article, as an example, we will talk about the upholstery of a double bed and show photos of the process.
First you need to carefully inspect the furniture, the upholstery of which you are going to change. The purpose of the inspection is to understand how it is disassembled and to identify the attachment points. In our case, the headboard was the first element to be dismantled.
What happened to that back to make it look like this? It's simple - the old leatherette cracked and began to peel off and roll down from the friction of the pillows on the back. So, having removed the back, you need to carefully study it in order to understand where to start dismantling the old upholstery. Usually the upholstery is attached in a certain order and dismantled in the reverse order. When disassembling the backrest, we encountered a dilemma when it was not clear how the upholstery was fixed on the sides and how the side linings could be removed. The lack of visible fasteners and the lack of access to invisible fasteners led to the idea that the pads are attached with glue and/or pins. Therefore, with the help of a chisel, we carefully try to pry and tear off the side linings around the perimeter (without fanaticism, so as not to break), they finally give in and separate.
Pay attention to the cardboard tape, which was found nailed to both ends of the back. We damaged this cardboard strip when we chiseled the wooden end caps. The purpose of this tape is to create a ledge around the perimeter of both ends of the back. These protrusions are covered with upholstery material, after which the end plates are, as it were, “recessed”. This is done not only for beauty and giving volume to the upholstery. No matter how tightly you fasten the end pads, there will be a gap between them and the back. And only the creation of protrusions, inside of which the overlays are heated, hide any gaps from the observer.
We decided to replace the damaged cardboard with leather, after making it more rigid. In order to give the skin rigidity, hardness and reduce its elasticity, you need to soak it in water containing a small amount of ordinary PVA glue, and then dry it. In the photos below you can see the result of this - the strips of leather are angled upwards without bending.
After that, you can start hauling the back with new upholstery. Before you start shooting the upholstery fabric, its edge should be bent (just as it is done when working on a sewing machine - by bending the edge, you prevent it from crumbling into fibers. In general, hauling furniture in its approaches practically does not differ from approaches used when sewing on a sewing machine.For example, to hide the staples with which you fasten the first edge of the upholstery - put the fabric inside out and attach with a stapler, then turn the fabric over, covering the clogged staples.We forgot to photograph this moment separately, but if Take a close look at the photos of the backrest constriction below - you will understand what we are talking about.
So, having changed the upholstery of the headboard with your own hands, you can proceed to the constriction of the bed base. First we need to dismantle all the elements that prevent the removal of the old skin. In our case, these are the legs and side shelves.
Next, we study how the old upholstery is fixed, from which side you need to start dismantling it. In our case, there was a secret mount on top, from which the installation began at the factory, and an open (visible from the outside) mount was found below (under the bed). Therefore, dismantling was carried out in the same order - first from below, then from above. To be honest, in our case, in order to simplify installation, we decided not to use a hidden fastening from above, since it will still not be visible when the bed is closed. Therefore, we started the installation of the upholstery fabric not from above, but from below, then, evenly stretching, we began to fasten it from above. It is very important to maintain the same tension of this fabric over the entire surface of the furniture before attaching the upholstery fabric. Otherwise, the upholstery will not lie flat, but in waves or folds (where it is stretched more, there will be recesses, where it is weaker - bulges). To evenly stretch the upholstery, you can use a narrow strip cut from fiberboard. In this case, the edge of the upholstery fabric is attached to the strip, then the strip is scrolled, winding the fabric around it in one turn. After that, it is easier to stretch the entire upholstery fabric evenly along the entire length with a strip. Having stretched the fabric, the strip is fixed with a stapler, nailing it to the product along with the fabric.
As you can see, do-it-yourself furniture hauling is not such a complicated process. It took 2 days to change the upholstery of the bed shown in the photo.
Furniture upholstery (sometimes also called “upholstery”) involves a number of standard operations, which consist in its complete restoration and include special repair and upholstery work.
Today, everyone (even if he lacks design talent) can turn his old sofa, for example, into a real work of art. Such a transformation can be achieved by decorating the furniture with additional decorative elements: for example, pads of a color scheme that contrasts with the main upholstery, a decorative cord with tassels or braid.
Do-it-yourself furniture upholstery will not only allow you to save part of the family budget, but also provide an opportunity to get a certain aesthetic pleasure from the manufacture of a functionally finished product.
It should also be noted that furniture upholstery belongs to the category of labor-intensive work, but if you follow a number of instructions and some rules, you will certainly achieve what you want.
When removing old upholstery from each of these disassembled parts, one should act very carefully, trying not to damage its base and to preserve the shape of the removed fabric, which will allow it to be used later as a pattern for new upholstery. After that, it is necessary to examine the condition of the internal filler of the upholstery (foam rubber, batting or synthetic winterizer) and, in case of significant wear of this material, replace it.
The upholstery of the sidewalls and other furniture elements is usually fastened with special brackets in that part of it that faces the floor and wall. To remove the upholstery, use a flat screwdriver and pliers to pull out these staples and remove the fabric.
In order to upholster upholstered furniture, you will need the following tool:
After the newly covered elements of your structure are ready for assembly, you should install the previously removed locking mechanism on it. For a more reliable fastening of the mechanism itself on the base (frame), you can use bolts of a larger diameter, for which you first need to slightly drill holes for them. At the final stage of the assembly of the structure, the back and seat are first installed, and only then the sidewalls are fixed. After completion of assembly work, it is necessary to check the entire structure for ease and convenience of its folding and unfolding, if any.
Upholstered furniture is available in each apartment, it can be both soft chairs and sofas. After all, we need it not only for convenience, but also for interior design. However, over time, we notice that the furniture loses its original appeal. And in this case, only new upholstery, which you can do yourself, can help you.
But you need to immediately warn you that self-upholstery of furniture is a rather laborious process. And for this you need to do everything in order:
Now we will consider the hauling of an old sofa-book (still Soviet times). 
Let's start first of all with the choice of upholstery material for your furniture, as it can be used: chenille, jacquard, tapestry, velor or flock.
As for the choice of mats, here you need to be guided by the following positions:
In our case, the hardness and density of the material should be given the most attention, since the service life of your furniture will depend on this in the future. Because if the density of foam rubber is small, then it will undergo crumbling and deformation under loads. Wear resistance will increase high rates of rigidity, but elasticity will decrease. But there is a solution. To do this, you will need to use a two-layer filler, where the first layer needs to be made more rigid, and the second, naturally soft.
For the upholstery of the filler, it is best to use canvas or coarse cotton fabric. This will reduce the ingress of dust into the furniture. 
First you need to disconnect the sidewalls, while unscrewing the fasteners between the sidewalls and the frame. Then we disconnect the seat and back from the frame, for this you need to remove the locking mechanism.
Then you need to unfasten the staples and remove the old upholstery. There you will find a synthetic winterizer or foam rubber layer, it was mainly glued to the sidewall plywood.
To give additional volume, you again need a foam filler, its thickness should be 30-40 mm. For a more convenient connection with the frame, foam rubber is placed on the outside of the sidewalls.
To do this, you will have to put the removed sidewall on the prepared sheet of foam rubber and use a wallpaper knife to make a pattern so that the foam rubber completely covers the outer side of the sidewall, as well as about half of the inner side. Also, you need to remember to make an allowance of at least 7 cm on each side. Next, you need to evenly stretch the material and wrap it along the ends of the sidewalls, while securing it with a stapler. Then from the front side in the lower part, fix the filler and wrap the top of the sidewalls, securing the foam rubber from the inside.
Then you will need to cut the canvas and completely fit the foam. When you have completed this procedure, you can begin stretching the upholstery.
For seat upholstery, you will also need to get rid of the old upholstery and filler. Here you will come across a spring block. As for it, you also need to carefully inspect the spring mechanism and replace the springs that have become unusable. You will also need to do a little repair of the frame, as it is mostly loose.
After all this, a dense fabric must be laid on the spring mechanism and attached to the spring mechanism. Next, lay two layers of foam rubber, hard and soft, and fix it in the same way. Then the foam must be covered with canvas, and then upholstery.
As for the back upholstery, here you need to act on the principle of the seat upholstery. But in this case, hard foam rubber is not used, only soft foam and it must be fixed only at the top of the frame, without leading to the bottom. All this is to ensure that when the sofa-book is decomposed, the foam rubber does not block the gap between the wings and the back of the sofa.
Now the hauling of your sofa has come to an end, you just have to put all the parts together. At the same time, do not forget to fix the locking mechanism, and make sure that it is securely fastened.
Furniture upholstery (sometimes also called “upholstery”) involves a number of standard operations, which consist in its complete restoration and include special repair and upholstery work.
Today, everyone (even if he lacks design talent) can turn his old sofa, for example, into a real work of art. Such a transformation can be achieved by decorating furniture with additional decorative elements: for example, pads of a color scheme that contrasts with the main material, a decorative cord with tassels or braid.
Do-it-yourself furniture upholstery will not only allow you to save part of the family budget, but also provide an opportunity to get a certain aesthetic pleasure from the manufacture of a functionally finished product.
It should also be noted that upholstery belongs to the category of labor-intensive work, but if you follow a number of instructions and some rules, you will certainly achieve what you want.
The first thing you should do is to completely disassemble the piece of furniture prepared for reupholstering into its component parts, the main of which are, as a rule, the seat, back and sidewalls.
To completely disassemble the sofa, for example, you should remove the sides by unscrewing the bolts that attach to the base, and then proceed to remove the seat and back from it. This can be done immediately after dismantling the locking mechanism, which will allow you to completely disassemble the entire structure and separate the back and seat from each other. Before carrying out all these operations, we recommend that you fix the order of fastening the elements of the mechanism using a camera; this will greatly simplify its reassembly.
When removing old upholstery from each of these disassembled parts, one should act very carefully, trying not to damage its base and preserve the shape of the removed fabric, which will allow it to be used later as a pattern for new upholstery. After that, it is necessary to examine the condition of the internal filler (foam rubber, batting or synthetic winterizer) and, in case of significant wear of this material, replace it.
The upholstery of the sidewalls and other furniture elements is usually fastened with special brackets in that part of it that faces the floor and wall. To remove, use a flat screwdriver and pliers to pull out these staples and remove the fabric.
In the event that it is necessary to update the filler, it should be completely removed from the bases. When removing the synthetic winterizer, try to save the fragments of the filler remaining at the locations of the sidewall mounting bolts. The new filler must be pulled over the element to be updated and covered with canvas on top, which is then attached to the base with brackets.
In order to upholster upholstered furniture, you will need the following tool:
In addition, you will need a specially equipped workplace (for cutting upholstery fabric) and a sewing machine.
In the presence of all the above conditions and tools, you can safely proceed to the hauling of the prepared furniture elements. When selecting upholstery material, they usually proceed from its following operational characteristics:
In the course of deciding how to upholster furniture, such common upholstery materials are very often used, such as courtesan, jacquard, flock, tapestry and velor in our time. Fabric blanks used to renew upholstery are usually cut according to the pattern of the old upholstery material.
When cutting a new upholstery blank, you should carefully ensure that the individual fragments of the facing fabric match the pattern, and also so that during the upholstery process you do not confuse the front and wrong sides of it.
After the newly covered elements of your structure are ready for assembly, you should install the previously removed locking mechanism on it. For a more reliable fastening of the mechanism itself on the base (frame), you can use bolts of a larger diameter, for which you first need to slightly drill holes for them.
At the final stage of the assembly of the structure, the back and seat are first installed, and only then the sidewalls are fixed. After completion of assembly work, it is necessary to check the entire structure for ease and convenience of its folding and unfolding, if any.
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Looking at the rounded shapes of an expensive furniture set in the showroom of a furniture store, you just want to add volume to your old sofa or armchair. Do-it-yourself furniture upholstery, as well as countertop repair, is not such a complicated process and is within the power of any Real Man.
To work, in addition to desire and direct hands, you will need the following tools:
First of all, you need to determine the degree of wear of the fabric (leather) that your upholstered furniture is upholstered in, and decide on the need to replace it. If you decide to completely update the appearance of the furniture and, in addition, make it softer, you will have to go to fabric stores and buy tapestry, velor, jacquard, chinille, flock or courtesan - these are upholstery fabrics.
To add volume, you will need foam rubber or latex, possibly batting or interlining. In addition to upholstery, you need to purchase linen or coarse cotton fabric, canvas. They are needed for the initial tightening of the packing and protecting it from dust and wrinkling.
Before buying all of the above, first disassemble, for example, a chair. As a rule, all its parts (armrests, backrest, seat) are connected with long screws or studs. Unscrew all the nuts and disassemble the chair into its component parts.
Then, with a flat screwdriver, pry off the staples that secure the old fabric, and remove them with pliers. Do not throw away the old upholstery right away - it will still come in handy as a template for cutting new upholstery material. Then remove the lining and padding in the same way.
Earlier, in Soviet times, furniture makers used latex mats. Modern foam rubber cannot be compared with them - it wrinkles much faster, loses its original shape and begins to crumble. If you are a happy owner of a latex sofa, ottoman, armchairs and the latex is still in more or less good shape, then it is better to leave it. You will always have time to put foam rubber.
Before you start upholstery of furniture with your own hands, it is necessary to calculate the required amount of new upholstery material from the old fabric. For reliability, add another ten percent, just in case. It is better to replace the upholstery immediately on all upholstered furniture - it will come out faster, and you will only dilute the dirt in the apartment once, and there will be no disappointment from the lack of the same fabric in the store that you bought last time.
The assembly of the "insides" of furniture is carried out in the reverse order. First fasten the latex or foam rubber, then fit it with lining material, nailing it with staples from below. Sew the top cover according to the old pattern and fasten it with staples from the bottom too.
The stapler has an adjustment of the impact force of the striker. Adjust it so that the staples are fully inserted into the wooden frame bars, firmly fixing the fabric. Staples do not spare - hammer them for reliability more often.
To give additional volume to the parts of upholstered furniture (armrests, backrests), simply add another thin sheet of foam rubber. Just do not put it in the joints of the back, seat, armrests. Otherwise, it will either not be possible to assemble all the details into a single whole, or with very great difficulty. A sliding sofa, perhaps, will cease to fold.
After the process of upholstery of furniture with your own hands is completed, you can not only admire it with your own eyes, but even sit on it with your booty. Good luck!
Advantages of self-restoration of upholstered furniture
Furniture repair (restoration) at home includes upholstery, fabric replacement in other cases of damaged items: filler, frame base, decorative parts and mechanisms. After the restoration of furniture, you actually get a new piece of furniture. The advantage is that it costs less than buying a new sofa, and secondly, you yourself decide what color and texture of the fabric the old sofa will be. You can also optionally decorate the furniture with additional decorative elements that will echo the style of interior design.
In what cases furniture cannot be restored at home:
If the furniture is antiques, it is most likely better to trust the masters of their craft. Experienced upholstered furniture repair specialists can help to repair the sofa entirely without damaging the structure, improving the model, especially if it is made of natural solid wood and leather.
Leather furniture at home is difficult to repair, so trust the professionals;
When the furniture is badly broken, but you want to get a beautiful and high-quality picture as a result, the repairman will best deal with the construction of a broken sofa or chair. 
How to choose fabric for furniture upholstery
Upholstery fabric with a density level of 360 g / m2 is best suited for these purposes. You should focus on the pictograms on the wrong side:
Do not forget, if you buy fabric for children's furniture, then it should be hypoallergenic, simple and easy to clean: cotton and linen types of fabric.
For a soft headset in the living room, choose synthetics that are easy to clean and durable. Courtesan, microfiber, faux suede and flock are considered good options.
It is better to upholster furniture with wear-resistant fabric with weaving of natural fibers. These types of materials include: chenille, jacquard, velor and tapestry.
To calculate how much fabric is needed to upholster a sofa or chair, sum the width with the length, then multiply the sum by 2. For example, a sofa measuring 2x1.6 m turns out to need a little more than seven linear meters of matter.
For clarity, we suggest that you familiarize yourself with the table of approximate footage of fabric for upholstering upholstered furniture of different categories.
For the chair follows from the table, you will need from 12.7 meters to 7.6 meters for a folding chair-bed, and for a pouf with an armchair you will need 8 meters of fabric. For chairs, you will have to buy from 2 to 3 meters of fabric, for a pouffe from 2.2 to 5 meters. A compact sofa will require from 2.7 m, and a corner sofa with decorative pillows will require 31 meters of upholstery fabric. 
To accurately measure fabric consumption, each piece of upholstered furniture should be measured separately: backrest, armrests, pillows, surface of the product, etc. Transfer all the data to the sheet in the form of drawings and diagrams, add three to four centimeters for the filler and seams for bends.
Do not forget that you will also have to spend money on a filler, which can be used as foam rubber with a thickness of at least four cm and a density of 30 kg / m3. Use felt to isolate the springs from the foam. The filler is changed in case of wear of the old one.
Tools for the restoration of upholstered furniture
To cut and sew covers, prepare:
Step-by-step instructions for hauling a furniture product
The simplest claws - easy and fast
In the house where the cat appeared, the scratching post for her becomes almost a matter of prime necessity for the owners, if they do not want to later admire the damaged things. Because in her absence, the cat will sharpen its claws on anything, most often on furniture. And if you get used to something, then it will be quite problematic to wean it off.
If a cat appeared in the house unexpectedly, or there is no time to create a stationary claw sharpener, then the simplest ways to make them are suitable for this case. A piece of softwood log with peeled bark 70-100 cm long can act as the simplest scratching post. A wooden scratching post is very strong, durable and does not require cleaning. You can cut the log in half along the fibers and attach it to the wall.
