Corner Settee

The time may have come that you’ll need to reupholster your leather settee. Yes your favorite corner settee has been used lovingly time and time again, but alas your use has gotten to the leather. You’ve been putting it off for far too long, but you can hardly sit on it anymore.  So let’s get started with the reupholstering process.

Stripped Settee

First, you’ll need to turn over the settee so you can begin removing the leather. Of course if it’s a larger corner settee you’ll have to separate the pieces and reupholster them individually. It will be more of an undertaking because of the larger size as well. Take a flat screwdriver to remove the staples. If there is any kind of stuffing or batting underneath where the leather was, take a look to see if it needs replacement. If it does then this will have to be replaced as well. Now that you’ve take off the leather outer, and either left or replaced the batting, it’s time to ad your new leather. Take the old leather covering and find it to the new leather. The old leather covering is your template for the new one, so that you can cut out the right form and shape. Make sure you have a good sharp pair of scissors for this, to cut cleanly.

Now that you’ve cut your pattern exactly as the old one, take out all of the pins. Now take the rear portion and staple it on the top of the settee if a leather back, or on the back underside of the seat, if just the seat is leather and the back is wood. Turn over the settee and staple the leather all along the bottom. Now flip it back over to upright and hang the leather on the front, flip it again and staple on the bottom. If your settee has arms, cover them with the new leather and staple them on the inner and outer portions of the arms. Also tuck under the front of the arms and staple under there as well. You have now re-upholstered your settee. If your settee is very large like a corner settee, it can be done by you though it will require more care and work, you may want to seek a professional reupholstering service for it. Hopefully this article was useful in tell you how to properly reupholster your settee.