How to make an upholstered capital

The moving van has been especially popular in recent years, although in reality it is an upholstery technique many years ago that life was used, as now, to provide an aspect of the most elegant and sophisticated.

But perhaps precisely this sophisticated look slow when we use it in decorating for fear of having too high a cost to our pockets. Doing it yourself at home.

If you love crafts and have spare time, a little skill and patience takes note, what we tell you and renew your headboard or your seats with this stylish upholstery.

The technique is basically string tension between the fabric soft and firm foundation that supports it then adding a few buttons that will hide the seams.

This would be a quick guide step by step to perform the technique at home:

1. Extract the base of the furniture you want to renew, is the basis of an armchair or the headboard of the bed completely. Put on a broad area in which you can work easily and removes it any other fabric or upholstery.

2. Take a piece of foam to cover the entire surface and mark on it the key points where the buttons will be sewn by a pattern that also serve to mark points on the wooden base.

3. Once tagged both sides need to drill holes on the timber to allow passage of the rope through the surface.

4. Glue the foam on wood base and staple them around to ensure it is securely and fluffy. Too boring after the padding as the points marked the beginning.

5. Place a fine white cloth to help sew the holes of the buttons to create the relief: takes the big needle top to pass up the timber and return it to leave after all the ends of the double strands loose.

6. Stretch each wire to make a slip knot and secure them later with a normal node pair.

7. Take a generous piece of fabric end then the time for action must be taken into account the folds. Hold it with staples in the bottom of the cabinet allowing enough fabric for the ruffles.

8. To finish the design you should just hit the big buttons on the holes to thereby cover the wires and get an impressive result.