Discover the joys of upholstery and bring new life to your worn-out furniture. With a few basic tools, an eye for color, and some ingenuity, you can customize your home with fabrics and textures that reflect your unique personality. This comprehensive guide features more than 900 photographs and includes five projects designed to teach you all you need to know to reupholster any piece of furniture. You’ll soon be confidently stripping down old sofas, stuffing sagging ottomans, and revamping chairs with your own distinctive style.

With 15 easy to follow, fabulously illustrated step-by-step projects, this book is just what the beginning upholsterer needs.

The most comprehensive, user-friendly upholstery book on the market just got better! Over its lifetime, SINGER Upholstery Basics has sold nearly 150,000 copies. Now, with five new projects and an entirely fresh presentation, SINGER Upholstery Basics Plus is truly the best book for beginners and seasoned upholstery buffs alike. All the basic upholstery techniques are taught. Projects include all styles of chairs or couches, stools, different styles of ottomans, a bench, and a headboard. Some projects are built-from-scratch items that require only simple carpentry skills for building the frames. Others show the complete process of stripping, repairing, and reupholstering old furniture pieces to like-new condition. Large color photos of the step-by-step instructions set this book apart from all the others. 300+ photos show the techniques in great detail, plus 5 new projects Projects are practical and most representative of the types of furniture pieces usually reupholstered or constructed from scratch Hidden wire-o binding keeps the book open flat while you work

A complete course in upholstering furniture, including tooling up, selecting stuffings and outer textiles, techniques, and cutting plans. The Upholstery Bible is a one-stop resource for furniture upholstering, regardless of your abilities, with easy-to-follow, illustrated instructions explaining all the essential upholstery techniques, from covering buttons to stripping and upholstering entire chairs. Build your skills at your own pace, with advice on the basics such as choosing materials and tools for the job and estimating yardage, as well as more complex upholstering techniques. The Upholstery Bible features invaluable advice on what to look for when buying second hand furniture, teaching you what’s fixable and what’s not as well as how to avoid costly mistakes by choosing the right stitches, and techniques and textiles for the job. “Dobson breaks up the technical stuff with a more inspiring approach . . . If you’re starting out, I’d say this would be a brilliant resource to have . . . offers plenty of answers to the most common gotchas.” —Vintique Upholstery

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Provides instructions, photographs, and diagrams for completing upholstery jobs that range from stripping and reupholstering to fixing a simple tear.

"The Essential Guide to Upholstery is a valuable and indispensible resource for the home enthusiast, offering practical advice and lots of exciting ideas on colours, patterns and textures. Fully illustrated throughout with informative illustrations and inspiring photography, this book will enable you to confidently create an individual statement for your home furnishings."--Back cover.