A club seat, or “fauteuil confortable,” is a French invention that’s cushioned, heavily upholstered and slightly curved. It was originally a leather-covered armchair that changed itself for Art Deco and Art Nouveau. Within a century, it adapted to the present fashion, keeping its low profile and also swapping leather to get multi-patterned fabric in wilder incarnations. If you cherish your funky club seat and need to update its well-worn curves, re-upholstery will bring it into the 21st century. Keep the awesome vibe going with sudden contemporary prints along with a glossy enamel re-do of the unobtrusive feet.

Cast a critical eye on your club seat and picture it in daring neons, a wild mixture of Gothic and stripes, or even a boho potpourri of fabric scraps, pieced together with velvets, woven textiles, embroidered brocade and paint-spattered canvas. Collect lengths of different upholstery material to meet your design. Then take the seat to your work area and take it apart.

Eliminate the staples that hold the cloth in place, taking care to tag where each piece goes and in what order you took it off the seat. Catch the upholstery near a staple with a set of pliers and twist the fabric away from the frame of this seat — simpler than attempting to tug the staples straight out.

Set the outdated upholstery apart to use as patterns for cutting new pieces. You’ll need it soon to re-upholster the seat with fresh fabric. Discard the staples so that you do not accidentally sit on them. Preserve the tacking strips and tacks to work with again.

Assess the batting and leave it in place if it’s still usable. If it needs replacing, remove it as you did the cloth — if possible — and also conserve the bits to use as patterns.

Tackle the toes. Sand them to make a “grabby” surface for new paint, prime the timber, and also, once it dries, apply two coats of high-gloss enamel in a vivid color that picks up one shade from the brand new upholstery. Tangerine, bright turquoise, mulberry or patent-leather black will kick the energy of their low feet.

Cut the upholstery material, utilizing the old pieces as patterns and inserting about 2 inches into the perimeter of each piece for bend over and fastening. Cut any fresh batting at the same moment. For a boho look, utilize different designs for every single piece of material: the chair, middle back, arms and side panels. Each chair differs, so experiment to get the mixture of colors and designs that works for your club chair.

Staple the batting initially, in the order you removed the outdated batting. Do the same with the cloth; on a club seat this usually means beginning with front, front and back arm panels, progressing to the seat, left and right side panels, and also the bottom, cutting the extra fabric after it’s stapled in place. Insert the tacking strips as you move.

Insert the tacking strips along the border of this new fabric in which the old filter strips have been, at least an inch in from the edge of the cloth. The tacks poke up through the “right” side of this upholstery material. Fold the cloth over the strip so that the tacks now confront the seat frame and are concealed beneath the fold of cloth. This gives the cloth panel a neat, sharp edge.

Harness the tacks into the seat frame with a padded mallet to prevent tearing the cloth that’s layered over them. Just pull the panel taut and shake the cloth over the concealed tacking strip to ensure the material. The finished edge of this panel is currently firmly tacked into the seat.

Staple the final bit of muslin or cambric, turned under round the entire border, to the bottom of the chair. Right the seat, and it’s ready to take its astonishing place in your decor.