How to Recover an Old Office Wood Chair

Since so many office chairs are made from plastic, leather, vinyl and a range of other materials, finding one made out of solid wood is big news. Such a chair is most likely a banker's style chair with a rectangular or rounded back and vertical slats of wood that connect the top of the chair back to the seat. It may or may not have wheels. Regardless, if your chair is very old, stained or damaged, refinishing it might not seem worth it. Luckily, there is a simply way to cover the chair with fabric that matches your decor exactly, and you don't even need to know how to sew.

Measuring tape
Pen
Paper
Fabric
Shears
Staple gun
Hot glue gun
Chair cushion with ties

Instructions

- 1
  Run a tape measure from the edge of one armrest, along the back of the chair and to the edge of the other armrest. Multiply this number by four and jot it down. Cut a piece of fabric to this measurement in length, making it four inches wide.
- 2
  Tuck one end of the fabric underneath one of the arms of the chair and wrap the fabric around it, creating a tight coil of fabric around the wood. Continue in this manner until you have covered the entire surface area of wood: the chair arms and the top back of the chair in a fabric wrap.
- 3
  Staple gun the fabric to the bottom of the chair arms, inserting one staple at the bottom of each chair arm, so that the fabric doesn't unravel.
- 4
  Measure the length of each vertical wood slat on the back of the chair. Write down this measurement and multiply it by three. This will be the length of each piece of fabric for the slats.
- 5
  Cut a piece of fabric for each slat that is as long as the last number you wrote down and three inches wide. Take one end of each piece of fabric and tuck it behind the very bottom of one slat. Wind the fabric around the slat, creating a tight coil of fabric around the wood, until you cover it completely. Secure it in place with a staple gun at the top and bottom of the fabric.
- 6
  Cut tiny pieces of fabric, the size of a fingernail, made out of the same material you used to cover the chair. Hot glue each tiny square of fabric to each staple to cover it.
- 7
  Place a fabric chair cushion over the chair seat. Tie the chair tie to the bottom slats of the chair back.

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