Part four of the video tutorial series on reupholstering the French chairs is here.  If you missed parts 1-3, you can find them here… Part 1 – stripping the chair Part 2 – painting the frames Part 3 – distressing & waxing the frames Now that the frames are ready, it’s time to work with the fabric.  As I mentioned in the first video, we set aside the fabric we removed from the chair in order to use the pieces as a template.  I remember the first few pieces I upholstered, I chucked the fabric and started from scratch and that was definitely “the hard way.”  You make things so much easier on yourself if you keep the old fabric and use it to your advantage. When it comes to selecting fabric to work with, the weight of the fabric is very important.  If the fabric is too thin, it

Welcome to my new series on reupholstering a French-style chair!  I’ve been meaning to do one of these for a long while, but a lot goes into making a video and I was a little intimidated by the process.  Now that I’ve learned more about sound, editing, lighting, etc., I’m ready to go!  (Well, I still have more to learn, but I’ve definitely graduated from the poor lighting, kids screaming in the background and such.) There are a lot of different furniture styles out there and some are more complicated than others.  In this series, we are going to start with one of the simplest styles of armchairs to upholster.  We’ll call it a French-style chair, but it doesn’t have to be this specific style.  The idea is to find a chair where the upholstery is done in panels.  You can find Victorian, Gustavian, Swedish and more styles with this same