Recovering Dining Chairs

[Colin]

I have a set of dining chairs with removable seats. I was considering recovering them. Should be easy: pop out the seats and staple some new material on...

I then thought, hmm, what about covering the seat in leather instead of cloth. Must be harder wearing and much more sexy.

Has anyone tried this? was it a success? Where can I get some suitable leather from? What is suitable leather?

TIA Colin

[Andy Dingley]

Drop in seats are easy. Any DIY upholstery book should explain the process. As padding, "chip foam" is about the easiest to work with.

Here's a simple box cushion I did in leather.

you're sewing it, it's pretty easy. - use a leather needle (triangular) - get it right first time - you can't unpick seams and re-sew (except by hand)

[Rob Morley]

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[Phil Addison]

too. I threw away a perfectly good bum-bag recently because I couldn't source a replacement buckle.

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