Learn how to build your own custom dining chairs with this DIY Upholstered Dining Chair tutorial, featuring step by step photos and printable plans. <\/em><\/p>\n
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Hi everyone. As I said earlier this week, I’m sharing how I built the Parson chairs for our DIY Farmhouse Table<\/a>. <\/strong>I really wanted to still try to save money on the chairs as well, but I couldn’t find any that either matched our table, had the fabric we liked, or that weren’t an arm and a leg. Each of these chairs cost about $40 each to make. The biggest cost came from the fabric. Home decor fabric isn’t cheap, but I found this on sale at Hobby Lobby. I wanted something that would complement our home decor and wouldn’t show stains from dirty little fingers. I found the plans for these chairs<\/strong><\/a> once again from the fabulous Ana White<\/a>. <\/strong>Her plans are great, but I made a few modifications to better suit our needs\/desires. Based on another brag post, I used 2x3s for the chair seats and backs as well as the back legs. I also increased the height of the chair backs to 22 inches and changed the angle of the backrest from 15 degrees to 5 degrees. I wanted them to sit a little straighter since they are formal dining chairs at our not-so-formal dining table:)<\/p>\n
The first step is to assemble the chair seats. I used my Kreg Jig<\/a> to drill all of the pocket holes in my chair pieces. Using 2 1\/2″ pocket screws, I screwed the sides of the seats together. This was by far the hardest part. Stabilizing the back in order to screw it all together was a bit tricky.<\/p>\n
Finish building the legs by attaching the front and back aprons.<\/p>\n
Here’s the skeleton frame of the chair.<\/p>\n
Since I was making four chairs, I made a pattern out of freezer paper so I could reuse it again and again. Remember that if you are modifying the chair to fit the 17×15″ seat pad and\/or the height of the chair backs, you’ll need to make those same adjustments to the fabric pattern. Because I am not much of a seamstress, I’m also not very good at explaining how to sew this together. I’ll let Ana take over with her tutorial<\/a>. <\/strong>She describes it so much better than I can.<\/p>\n