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Welcome to your ultimate destination for DIY upholstery tutorials! Whether you’re a curious beginner or a skilled professional looking to refine your craft, this site is packed with everything you need to start—and finish—beautiful furniture reupholstery projects with confidence.
Explore a growing collection of step-by-step upholstery guides that cover a wide range of skills, from basic fabric selection and foam replacement, to advanced techniques like tufting, piping, and spring tying. You’ll learn how to reupholster chairs, sofas, ottomans, dining seats, headboards, and even vintage or antique furniture. Every tutorial is crafted to be clear, practical, and easy to follow—perfect for hobbyists, DIYers, and aspiring professionals alike.
Here, you’ll find:
– Beginner upholstery tutorials for first-timers
– Advanced techniques for experienced upholsterers
– Insider tips to make your projects faster, cleaner, and more durable
– Answers to common upholstery questions
Whether you’re restoring a family heirloom, giving old furniture a modern twist, or starting your own upholstery business, you’ll find the support and guidance you need right here. And if you ever get stuck or have a question, feel free to leave a comment under any tutorial—I’m always happy to help if I can.
So grab your hammer or your staple gun, pick your favorite fabric, and let’s transform your furniture—one project at a time!
How to create a front foam edge
This modern technique using compressed foam edge is quite fast easy to realise. You will need it when a seat cushioned seat like this big armchair and also of course…
Well back tutorial
This is a technique you can use if you want to upholster the back of a cabriolet chair the traditional (and ecological) way. Well back tutorial Video (14 min) Check…
How to stitch a square angle
Just follow those steps to stitch a square angle.
How to use a regulator
What is a regulator ? A regulator is an old tool tool used in traditional upholstery work. It allows you to move fibers (horsehair or coconut fiber) in the hessian.…
An easy pro tip to glue an press the wood with webbing
Video tutorial More about this technique This is just the easiest way to glue a whole seat ♥️ It was taught to me by Alain Sartre (Crest, Drôme) in first…
Dustcover
Dustcover is the very last step of a seat most of the time. How to finish under a seat. Pull the dustcover toward the back edge of the chair to…
How to cut when you can’t see
This is how to cut when you can't see. The tool i'm using is a metal ruler but any long, straight and thin object will do the job… This is…
How to cut the fabric on a seat
There is only 2 differents cuts you should know to cover any kind of seat: this is the simple cut and the Y Cut. We need both simple and Y…
How to create a v pleat (under a frame)
How to make perfect pleat (tulip pleat) Here an example of a V pleat (or tulip pleat) under a drop in seat. It's the same technique on the back on…
