How To Upholster a Couch 

My wife and I have watched so many reupholstery videos and this is by far the most informative and accessible for beginners. Thank you, Jami Ray! And Zeb, too!

Thank you for the thoroughness! Ive watched many videos,most hardly explain what they're doing or why.

I always love your videos but watching this really shows how far is have come in your video making. Still showed me most of what I needed to know. The coach I'm doing is a little different style.

love it! I am just doing a three piece set ..ahhhhh the dismantling was the hardest but I love see your couch come together it gave me more inspiration!

Great video, thank you. I do mixed media crafting, and here's a trick I came up with, but it's not rocket science, I'm positive I'm not the only one. Depending on the medium, you're using fabric ... oh, I live in the hot and humid south, and hot glue melts ... for fabric, I use an acrylic fabric glue, like fabritac, but because it takes awhile to dry, I'll attach it on with hot glue. If it's another medium ... Like gluing a half pearl to metal .. I'll use ez600 and hot glue. One of my favorite things to do is I collect sea shells in thrift stores, dollar tree, ebay, etc, and when I have enough, I'll make a wreath, with heavy duty chip board as a backing, and use the ez6000 and hot glue, let it dry 48 hours. Then seal with epoxy. It looks so cool. Sorry to prattle on, but it's really a good tip. I subbed. Look forward to seeing more. Patricia

You guys are Frickin AMAZING!!!!!! I’ve Always wanted to do this but was a bit Scared, Now I Feel Empowered!!! I know I could Totally Do this!!! Learn So much from your channel!!! Such a Blessing!! Please keep the videos coming!! 👍🏻Thank you!!! 🙏🏻

Wow Jami, this video is so informational! I really appreciate you're time dedicated to this amazing hobby of yours. I don't have a wife to make these for, I just have my cats that sadly don't do much. You're an very inspirational person Jami, and people appreciate you!

Soo Awesome Jami !! You truly are a Jack of all Trades, or should I say Jill...

Amazing. Love the sides.

The coffee sacks are a stroke of genius! Thanks for sharing.

this cut as you go always amazes me.

I want to thank you for this video. I have been looking for one just like this. I have an old chair of my dad's that has wood all around the top and sides like the couch you just did. I couldn't quite figure out how to pull the fabric around the exposed wood areas without it looking like a sad do-it-yourself project. Thanks for all the tips. I am excited to star the chair now. :D Looking forward to more projects.

I found your channel today and have been watching it while doing things around the house. Now I’m dying to hurry up and finish my house chores so I can go to my fav thrift store and find something to paint. Hoping I find something good because I’m dying to do ANYTHING after your videos 😂😂

Hey great job. You explained very well. Build enough confidence that I believe I can do it myself. But I had a question for a couch that size, how much fabric did you buy for it?

Wow , I had to tell you that it looks amazing, you have totally inspired me and I wanted to thank you so much. 💗💗💗

Thank you guys for this simple to do vid ... I been looking to reupholstering this beautiful antique sofa set large sofa , love seated and chair ..at a thrift shop ... But all businesses that does are not near my area or state at all so I been thinking of trying to do it myself...wasn't sure .. I do my own sawing but I was afraid of where and how to start...Now I know 😊 ty again!

Good job i maybe wanna try this once because of this video thank you so much for sharing greetings from germany Holland and kosovo

Wow, you make that look so easy. Outstanding video and really appreciate you sharing your talent. Good tip about the foam. Where do you buy the brads? Your friend from Florida.

Hey, I enjoyed your video. I actually own a pre owned furniture store here in North Carolina. I had been considering trying this but didn't think I could. You truly made it simple and now I feel like I can. My question is, how long did it take to accomplish this?

Awesome thanks for sharing you make look so easy! 😋👍 I'm getting up the courage to reupholster my couch!!

When I redo a chair I found, I'm watching this video. You give me hope,Great Work...

you are fearless when facing hard work. congrats.

Um.. you did that!!! Im in love with that couch...

The burlap is genius & looks so good! How much do you charge to reupholster a couch like this?

GREAT tutorial! Thanks so very much - it was quite helpful.

Great idea! I love the coffee bag siding. Very creative.

Beautiful job! I remember being so intimidated by my first reupholster job, but I found it to be much less complicated than one would think! Just a tip of you ever try to tackle another, you see the puckering along the top and bottom of your seat back? You can avoid that if you start stapling from the center and work your way outward, instead of moving left to right. I learned that upholstering a headboard AFTER I'd already done my couch. Whoops! 😉

Can I ask what you bought the couch for and sold it for? Amazing work I loved it wish you were in Pa. I would be your best customer!

Hello! Your video is so easy to follow and very helpful. I’ve probably watched it at least 10 times haha. It inspired me to buy a 1940s Queen Anne Sofa to reupholster ☺️ I’ve been looking for brads for the tufting in my couch and can’t find them anywhere. Where do you get yours? What can I look up to find them? Thanks again for this video!

I think your amazing! Where did you learn all of this? I was going to make slip covers for $10 thrifted easy chair, but there's a lot of wood showing, so now, thanks to you jamiraygenius, I'm going to upholster it with antique hemp cloth!

Amazing and awesome results.

just curious why you chose to use quilting cotton instead of upholstery cotton? Upholstery cotton is cheaper and much fluffier and easier to work with.

Amazing, Amazing 👏 😍 ❤️ 🙌 💖 ♥️

You’re the best. I have the exact sofa to diy. Thank you. How many metres fabric require ?

Thanks for a great tutorial. It was really informative. I really don't understand the fascination with using sub-par fabrics, though. It would have looked so much better if it were upholstered nicely all the way around with a nice fabric. Just my thoughts. :)

Great tutorial. One question for an average size couch how much fabric do you usually need?

I have this exact couch, in original form and condition!! Been trying to decide what to do with it for years!

I think we could become good friends! Great job! I am learning so much from you!

Wow. Great job!! What type of fabric did you use? I'm planning to do my sofa but fabric are so expensive. O was thinking about getting good quality window curtains and I'm not plan9on removing the old fabric just cover. Fabric is is in great shape just don't like the color anymore. What do you think? Any tips will be greatly appreciated. Thanks

Where did you find the giant buttons with brads?? I’ve been looking everywhere and can’t find any!

very beautiful i wish you were in the UK I would have hired you to do my french settee set..loved it

Where do you get these “tuft” things, the pins/buttons?

Hi, I hope that you see my comment as I know this video is older. Do you happen to have a project list of materials? I'm doing the same couch and I'm afraid of ordering more fabric/batting than I need to!

I love the butter colour. very well done.

Wonderful work!! So beautiful!!!!! I love it~

Looks awesome! How do you identify period and style of furniture? Whats your go to guide?

Did I miss you say where you got those button/brads? You cover those yourself, right? Where did you get the coffee sacks? That turned out tooooo cute!

I wish I had your talent and confidence. I have a Louis XV with great wood and hate to just toss it. Great job!

`Love the couch! Keep up the good work.

Great video! I have a similar couch to do...picking the fabric seems to be my only frustration....hard to choose...

You are so gifted and talented! You've have inspired me. I now believe I could re-do my Grandmother's chair from the 50's, which is round, 4 feet in diameter with a round back....thank you!!!

I love this! great job!

Great video I'm looking to do something similar, what were those button u used with the backs u can split open ? I need them badly. Please respond

Wow looks grand - a lot of work and not easy either. Great job. TYFS God Bless

Great Job ! Beautiful!

How much fabric did it take to do this couch?

You inspired me to tackle my vintage sofa! Ripped to the bones and reupholstered! P.S you do have an accent and its awesome🦄

it turned out beautiful

JAMI RAY, IT'S BEAUTIFUL............

This is awesome, however I have a question: how long did it actually take you to do it?

Quick question how did you do the seat cushions? I have the same couch, and how much fabric did you use?

Hey Jamie! Love the outcome. I have the exact same couch w/ the matching love seat and I want to re upholster it as well. My question is how much fabric, & batten did u use? like 5 yrds for fabric , a roll of batten?, that's what I mean. Thx!

Holy cow!! Wonderful job!!! ❤️❤️❤️

You did a Beautiful Job

You did a great job thanks🤗

Thanks for the video! Where on this planet may I be able to find those tufting brads! I've looked everywhere online and it seems the only supplier is "Dyna-Line" with a $150 minimum.

which foam from home depot did you use?

goodness I love this turorial! you're making this look super easy! I have two chairs to redo for the heads of my table. did I hear you correct that these were just drop cloths?

Hi, I am looking to do this with a couch, what was the name/color/type of fabric you bought and where did you buy it? How long/ how many pieces? Please! Thank you!

I love it

How much fabric did you buy or how did you calculate how much you’d need?

What did u use for fabric?

I enjoy your videos a great deal. Please if you can do a video on some curtains.

Do you have a video of the makeover of the white chair with dark color flower fabric that is seen at the18:55 min part of your video? I have one that looks mostly the same and I want to redo it.

If you wanted to remove the bottom fabric. Would you just use the same kind of foam?

What batting did you get?? And What kind of foam?

Just wondering, about much fabric did you need to reupholster this couch?

hello, can you tell me where i can buy tufts?....not sure if the ones on my couch can be reused?...thanks for your help!

hello sir, do you need a seat upholstery master?

que grapadora me recomienda para tapizar los sillones de la sala felicidades por ser una sra que nada se le hace dificil

Great video! Thanks!

Omg this looked really intimidating, but not nearly as intimidating as I had imagined. I wonder if I have to take off the old fabric? My couch isn’t vintage, but the bones are really cool. It’s rattan and has neat sides. I can’t part with it but the fabric is all rough from a dog.

Beautiful !!

where did you get the drop cloth? also did you wash them first?

I'm curious about how you did the wood trim on the couch? I see that it was light when you started then dark. Did you use a stain, milk paint or chalk paint for it?

Home Depot for the foam?? I've never seen this at Home Depot (my favorite store) -- I looked online and couldn't get it to come up either. Can you tell us what department/specific name, etc.? Thanks so much!! Love your videos!

How much fabric would you say you would need to buy for a project like this?

Jami, how much did you spend on the drop cloth? I love the look, and I'm prepping for a couch reno and need to decide if buying fabric is worth the cost

Is that a drop cloth? What weight of drop cloth do you recommend? Heavy or medium? I would think heavy would be difficult to put through the machine.

I like to make some cushions for my Queen Anne chair, loveseat, and couch. Could you give me some ideas?

Awesome! beautiful!

They sale a tool for taking out old staples and nails. It's a lot like a small hand held crow bar it is way easier then trying to grab at fabric with pliers. It get the fabric off in one piece and you can use the old fabric as a pattern if you need one

This was great! Where are you located? Would you be willing upholster my couch? (or know of any reasonably priced places?) I'm just not sure I want to rip up my couch and not follow through.

Hi, I️ wanted to ask when purchasing the air compressor staple gun do I️ have to purchase the actual compressor separate from the gun? Idk it’s my first time with these items! Thx

Love this!

Hello Jamie. I am new at reupholstering. I just picked up a Rococo style wood couch and chair from an alleyway that had been dumped there. It says it was covered in Denver. I dont know how old it is but so far removing the staples has been so hard. They are tiny about 1 cm staples. I tried to buy a staple remover tool and had minor success removing the staples. Does your husband use any specific tool that would make this easier? There are hundreds, easily thousands of staples! I'm losing steam and any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

where did you get those brads/braggs(sp) fr om

Did you use a drop cloth to cover this? Is that the fabric a painters drop cloth?

I'd have measured out and marked the buttons so they're more uniform.

Is this settee for sale.? looking for this style