Making a seat for a high chair

Chairs are perhaps the most common piece of furniture. All the more, each of its owners wants to see their furniture comfortable and elegant. How to make it not only like this, but also stunningly unique, we will tell below.

seat cushions
Without textile accessories, the interior of any room will be uncomfortable and cold.

Do-it-yourself well-made seat cushions for chairs become an excellent external accessory, at the same time helping not to experience discomfort from a long stay on the chair.

seat cushions ideas
Making seat cushions on chairs with your own hands is a task that any person can do, there is nothing complicated about it.

Selection of materials for work

Making a cape with your own hands should start with a conscious choice of materials. First of all, in this matter, it is necessary to build on whether the furniture will be used only indoors or outside it.

chair seats photos
The easiest way to add comfort and beauty to your home is to create soft seat covers for stools or chairs.

If outdoor use is planned, it is necessary to avoid the use of too delicate upholstery materials, such as silk. One of the alternative options is to bring the seats into the room if the use of the chairs is not planned for some time.

Choice of fabric

The following fabrics are most often used in the manufacture of these accessories:

  • linen
  • cotton
  • lycra
  • gabardine

The most practical of these materials is flax, it can be used even in the most unfavorable conditions for other types of fabrics. By itself, such a fabric is rather coarse, most of all will fit for the kitchen.

linen fabric
Some people find that linen clothes look rather rough. Others, on the contrary, appreciate her good qualities.

Cotton is a natural material that is great for indoor use. Outside them, it can get wet quite quickly, absorbing moisture. Like linen, it can be painted in different patterns, but unlike the first, it does not look as Spartan.

cotton fabric structure
Cotton fabrics are practical, beautiful and varied.

Lycra - pleasant to the touch, reminiscent of silk. Due to their characteristics, seats made of such material must be securely attached to the chairs, otherwise they can slide quite strongly on their surface. Shiny, plain lycra upholstery is a great choice for those who love bold, stylish accessories.

lycra fabric
Among the advantages are high elasticity, repetition of the body shape, "breathing" properties.

Gabardine is one of the most flexible and easy-to-handle materials. Has a sufficient density and is quite easy to wash.

gabardine fabric
Classic gabardine is a natural fabric made from a certain type of wool, namely from wool of merino sheep.

To make it easy for the pillows to return to their original appearance, an additional snake can be provided to remove the filler during the washing period.

Pillows for chairs
You can choose the material and type of the future product from thousands of options.

Note! It is not forbidden to wash the seat cushion together with the filler, but in this case it is necessary to strictly observe the temperature conditions for the material used.

Filler

For fillers, it is customary to use:

  • natural materials
  • feather
  • sawdust
  • buckwheat
  • sheep's wool
  • synthetic materials
  • expanded polystyrene
  • polypropylene
  • foam rubber
  • sintepon

Natural materials are highly environmentally friendly. At the same time, compared to synthetics, they have a much shorter lifespan, especially when it comes to outdoor use.

natural fillers
Filler for pillows is an important criterion for their quality and functionality.

Down and feathers create a feeling of the highest softness in the seat, when using sawdust, conifers are usually used, thus creating an aromatic effect. Buckwheat filler creates additional support, but at the same time, it conveniently repeats the anatomical features of the human body. Sheep wool is not only soft and pleasant to the touch, but also has a warming effect.

sheep's wool
Sheep wool, as well as its filler, are known for their many beneficial properties.

Synthetic materials are also often used along with natural ones.

The most economical, but at the same time the least durable - foam rubber and synthetic winterizer. They are a shock-absorbing layer, foam rubber from this pair is less prone to caking. Expanded polystyrene granules resemble buckwheat in their properties, however, they are softer in structure, and also tend to cake.

foam granules
Foamed polystyrene granules have found their application as a filler for frameless furniture and pillows that have come into fashion.

The most practical synthetic material can be called polypropylene - it is a medium hardness foam filler with excellent durability characteristics.

How to attach the cover to the highchair

Before you start making covers, you need to decide how they will be attached to them. It is customary to use the following types of fasteners:

  • strings
  • elastic
  • Velcro
Chair cover
You can peep the design of a seat on a chair in a store or on the Internet, and then embody the idea with your own hands.

The simplest to make are strings. It is enough to sew two “tails” from each corner of the pillow, and it will be firmly held on the chair. The elastic is better suited for round seats. When using Velcro, it is necessary that there is a counterpart of this mechanism on the chair.

chair covers
Unlike pieces of furniture, textile items can be changed at least every month.

What tools are needed

For self-production of a seat, in addition to the material and the selected filler, you will need:

  • sewing machine
  • scissors
  • needles or pins
sewing machine
If you are good at sewing, reversible seats can be made.

The process of making a seat for a stool in the kitchen

Having in our arsenal the materials necessary for the seat, we proceed to its manufacture.

  1. We mark on the fabric with a filler the size of the future pillow and accessories for attaching it. We make such markings with a margin (2cm will be more than enough) for comfortable sewing.
  2. Scissors cut the material into the required number of parts - for the pillow, two equal halves of the fabric plus strips for strings are enough. Or we sew on Velcro or elastic.
  3. Sew the pillow and fix the pre-made ties at the corners.
  4. We insert the filler, we cover the last side of our pillow. If a snake was used, just close it.
soft seat on the chair
Overhead seats are much easier to care for than upholstered chairs, because they can be removed at any time and sent to the washing machine.

The sequence of actions is quite simple and with a little experience in just one day you can sew a dozen pillows.

square cushions on chairs
This option is well suited for decorating chairs in the kitchen, in the children's room, in the hallway.

As you can see, there is nothing complicated in decorating your chairs with nice accessories. Especially if you carefully follow the advice in this article, you can easily learn how to make a soft seat on a stool.

cushion on stool
Any chair seat is very easy to sew, and even if there is no sewing machine in the house, you can spend a little more time to sew such an accessory by hand.

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