I have been looking on Pinterest at cool looking chairs that are custom made. They are absolutely beautiful but the price is about $1500 and up for a single chair. I love expensive things but I don't have the budget for that. Even if I had the budget for it I am unsure that I would spend the money on it. It just seems like too much. Instead I did a bunch of research on how to reupholstering a chair and figured I would dive in. The worst thing would be that it didn't work and I would go back to buying furniture from others. I went on Facebook marketplace and found a pair of chairs that said they had horse hair stuffing in it. Something made me think that if it had horsehair that it was worth rebuilding. Here is a picture of one of the chairs. My pictures and directions will not be amazing on this blog because I wasn't blogging at the time of the chair. I have another to do so that post will be more of the how to. Basically to do these chairs I had to rip them completely apart. Every blog said to do this carefully. To take lots of pictures and to save each piece of fabric so that I could use it as a template. I did that. I took video, I saved pieces and then I proceeded to reupholster the chair completely different than how the original chair was put together so none of that actually helped me on this one. If you were recreating the exact same way though it would save you a ton of time and guessing to have those pieces. I washed the horsehair stuffing in pillowcases. It was pretty simple. I took it all out and then just tied a knot at the top and washed it like you would any other clothing. Do not put it in the dryer. You are going to want to separate and spread out the horsehair on a counter or something and let it air dry. It's fast but you will really want to not skip steps. The chair is time consuming so you need to think of it as enjoying a process and not how quick you can get it done.
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