DIY Loveseat Upholstery tutorial with detailed tips. Start to finish by a professional upholsterer

[Music] [Music] hi everyone thanks for choosing to watch this video I opted to leave the breakdown process of this loveseat out but after I watched this video and as I was putting it together I decided to go ahead and leave this as a part of it because I think it's very important to be able to see how this loveseat is broke down and the way that it's broke down will be the same process as it will be putting it back together so the way that you're taking apart the loveseat would be the same way that you're putting it back in that order so that my first piece would be my black bottom and my skirting and then I'm going to move to my outside back and my outside arms at that point my inside attached pieces are going to be exposed to the outside and I'm going to go ahead and take all those staples loose it's always a good idea to mark your pieces as you're taking them off so that there's no confusion when you're putting your new pieces on you can write on them or number them it just saves in the long run when you have a pile of pieces that you're picking through and some of them you might want to save for patterns I like to mark my left's and my rights tops and bottoms just for reference in case I get confused or there's a piece that I'm not sure I can always go back and pull piece from my pile and I usually don't throw them away until I complete the jog here I'm working on my deck and I've taken my denim and in my face fabric and I've left about a half an inch seam allowance I have a center which is the cording on it as you can see it's been so and then I have a center marked on my loveseat and I put it in place and then I hold it down with T pins then I go back and I put a slipknot in the center and I work my way out I work from the center to the outsides once I get to the outside then I put another knot in it to keep it in place I'm using a heavy-duty nylon thread and a number three curved needle once I get the front hand sewed in then I like to go to the back and the sides and pull my fabric through and once I have that staple down then I go back to the front and attach my front with staples it just stabilizes the seat the decking before I start pulling and tugging to even up the front you these arms are in really good shape but I wanted to add a little extra padding to them so here I've added a half inch daikon when I'm putting the arm on I'm stapling the outside first and then rolling the inside in getting it in position and then putting my pleats in the front and that's stabilizing that inside arm once I have that completed that I'm moving towards the back and making my cuts into that inside back and pulling them through and if you'll notice that cut that I'm making there is a board in there that I can feel with my hand and so I'm making a cut straight into the center of that board and then I'm going at a V it looks like a I'm cutting into a v-shape and that's what wraps it around that board now I'm making that same v cut into my boards on all my insides my inside arms my inside backs that particular cut allows you to pull your inside fabric to the outside to your staple and secure them you now I'm starting to work on my material and getting some patterns ready for my bottom cushions I've taken the one of the cushions and taken the face fabric off of it the cushions did fit the sofa really well so the pattern came out pretty nice there was a few places that I did have to take my ruler and straighten the sides out when the cushion had some wear to it so the signs weren't completely straight the way that I wanted them but other than that I was able to use that pattern now the bandings I always cut those straight across the fabric I don't ever use the bandings or the zippers for patterns you it doesn't look like there's much of a pattern on this fabric but there was the repeat wasn't very large so there wasn't a whole lot of waste to it once I have my first pattern made I'm gonna make an identical one to match it so once I cut the first one out I just flip it over and I'll make my opposite side which is going to be identical you then I take those patterns and I'll repeat that process to make my second cushion I'm using just to steal weight and that's holding the fabric down so that it doesn't move as I'm cutting it you here I'm making my banding and I'm making sure that my pattern is correct and that I'm joining them on the sides I don't want any seams on the front cutting my inside backs I'm using also the pattern I like to iron my patterns out really well before I try to take and make them into a duplicate you I also am using my ruler to square off my cushion as much as possible because there was places that were also stretched out on the back cushions you and once I've squared them I can always go back and cut if I need an angle or if I need to taper a cushion from the corner to the center but I know that since it's been stretched before that I don't ever use the exact same pattern there's always a slight difference in them so like two iron pieces as I'm going along and when I'm putting my banding together getting it ready to sew I like to use a stapler and once I've sewed those pieces then I can pull the staples out but that keeps my pieces in line and I don't have to fool with that once I get to the sewing machine trying to match it up I can go ahead and staple it and have my pieces ready to sew you I'm selling my zippers at this point and I like to iron my material out before I get to the sewing machine it just keeps the fabric flat and I know what kind of seam allowance I've got on my zippers when I earned them now I'm sewing an inside back cushion and I'm allowing for my cording to extend the length of the cushion and also sewing a pull across the bottom and that cording pull and the fabric pull will be what will go underneath the cushion and attach to the outside back frame to hold the cushion stable I like to make sure that my pool material in cording is long enough that when I touch my cushion to the sofa I have enough to pull and move my material around so that my cushion will go into place where I want it I can always cut it when I'm finishing up the sofa but if it's too short then it's harder to pull and maneuver around so I always add a few inches to it and sometimes there's not enough material to make your pulls so if you run out of fabric you can always add another fabric like some denim to use on your pools I like to use the original fabric if there's enough and I'm not running short you the cushions remain from down feathers so I took a half inch piece of Dacron and made a form and then slip the old cushion inside of that and that gave it some extra padding now I'm working on the inside back Dacron and I'm just kind of feathering off any lumps or humps or places that have been pressed in that would leave knots underneath the new Dacron that I'm putting on now here I'm working on the inside back and the same thing I wanted to add some more padding so I have added another half inch piece of Dacron to each of the inside back cushions on these sides I had to add a piece to make the banding and I just used a little spray glue and glued the sides on and that works very well it stays in place it's an upholstery adhesive as I'm putting my inside back cushions on I'm going around and working with the cording to make sure that it's smooth and it's all going in the same direction and so I'm putting my hand in there and working the cording and the seam allowance salvaged towards the outside back of the sofa so all the cording Salvage is going to be running in the same direction I don't want it in the front of the cushions because then you'll see it so I also do that for my bottom cushions as well all the salvaged will be going towards the banding and not the top facing of the cushions I put the ruler across the arms so that it gives me a level look at the inside facts and I can see where my matching fabric is the pattern that runs through it so I can look at it at eye level and I can see that my patterns running at the same height the rulers also giving me a place to measure from even just a half inch difference on one cushion can throw the whole loveseat off so if you have anything straight that you can use whether a ruler or a board it's a good way to give yourself an eye level view of what the sofa is looking like it can be very deceiving at times while you're working on a piece not knowing exactly where you're at here I'm sewing up my last cushion and the way that I sew my cushions up is to sew the cording on to the facing all at one time the only time that I sew courting up separately is if I'm using it for my skirt or my outside back cording anything that's getting attached to the sofa but always on my cushions I would rather just use my raw according to so with I think it comes out a lot straighter and neater and it bends around the corners better and when it's not been sewed before you I think the inside back is probably the hardest part on this loveseat to get done and that's because I have to keep running from the front to the back to see what I'm doing it's nice if you have a mirror in front that you can look at and be able to tell what's going on but I've taken that I have a regulator and I've got some pillow stuffing and that's what I'm putting into my corners to draw them out you to put my banding on I'm gonna take a ruler and I'm gonna mark all the way across my back and then I'm gonna take my cording and I'm gonna line that up with my ruler before I staple it down once I staple it down then I'm putting my banding material on it and stapling that and then I'm going back over it with a piece of cardboard tack strip and then I'm adding my half-inch daikon on top of that and stapling it down to give it some padding you when I cut the Dacron off I'm cutting it flush with the outside back wood you here I'm just going over what I've already done and I'm making sure that everything is closed up because I've already gotten the insides already and now I'm getting ready to put up on the outsides so I'm just walking around the loveseat and making sure that everything is tacked down and ready to be sealed up this is the point of no return so anything that I want to change or fix this is the time that I'm going to do it before I put my outsides on I don't want to go back and have to take anything off on on my way to finishing up this piece here I'm working on my outside arms and I'm laying my fabric down and stapling it and I'm watching my inside arm staples because I don't want to staple overtop of them and for them to show once I put that outside on our lawn and then I'm putting my tack strip on my cardboard tack strip and then my dad cron and I'm cutting my Dacron even with the bottom of the sofa and across the bag and I find that that gives it a really smooth touch if you let the over if you let the Dacron go over the bottom it makes it lumpy so I like it smooth and the only place that I'm letting it overhang is the front where I'm putting my front on panels on you my next step is putting the according on the outside back and I'm doing that with just feeling the wood I'm letting the cording go to the edge of the outside back panels the cording is not going over the wood it's the cording is even with the wood my next step is to put my outside back on and this fabric did have a pattern so I marked the center and so I started with the center and I worked out on both sides and then I put my cardboard tack strip over top of the fabric in the cording and then I've added my half-inch daikon and I also want that to be even with the bottom it did fit perfect so I didn't have to cut it but I did cut my sides flush with the wood and then I went back and turned my material and left myself about two inches to work with for my metal tack strip and the way that I put my tack strip on is I go to the top and flip the fabric over and then I put my tack strip on it evenly about half way over the cording and when I flip it over it will usually turn out perfect it gives it just enough to give you enough leeway to pull at it if you need to so that that tack strip lays right against the cording once you've hammered it down and there I'm using a rawhide mallet but a rubber mallet is really works the same way when I do my black bottom I like to take the factory edge and put towards the front of the sofa and then leave myself a couple inches in the back and the sides to turn under and I always try to start from the center and work my way out on the black bottom as well here I'm attaching my front panels that I've upholstered and I'm using my air brad nailer and I was able to do that with this piece because the fabric was a loose weave and it didn't leave any nail holes now here I'm stapling down my skirt cording and I've already gone around and I've marked my corners with some chalk and I'm going around and I'm stapling all four corners with my cording and then I'm gonna go back with my ruler and then I'm gonna put my ruler from corner to corner and make sure that my cording is straight and then I'm stapling the cording down and if you'll notice the back side it sits lower in the back so I've had to raise that cording and it tapers from the back to the front there's about maybe a two inch difference there and that's real important to make sure that you can measure that out and you don't just follow the line on the bottom of the sofa my final step is to add my skirting and once I have attached all my skirting and and I have it stapled down I'd go around it with my cardboard tack strip and I'm going from corner to corner and I'm cutting between corners I don't like to wrap them it makes them more rounded and I like things to be squared so once I have that done and I flip it over I'm going to take my mallet and go around the top of the skirting right below the cording and I'm just going to tamp it down with my mallet and that gives it a real nice clean finished look it almost looks like it's been ironed I did take an extra step with the sofa and I took a iron and I steamed all the pleats around it I had two pleats in every corner [Music] I hope you've enjoyed this video if you have please like and subscribe you

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Length: 32min 51sec (1971 seconds)

Published: Thu May 31 2018