Fear Not: You Can Reupholster Anything Coming in Spring of 2008, Sterling Publishing presents a new book from your favorite multi-hyphenate, Leslie Segrete. Fear Not: You Can Reupholster Anything is dedicated to serving the daring do-it-yourselfer or crafts person in you. Like Leslie, you share a passion for making your home the home of your dreams and sometimes a beat up old furniture item is all that stands in the way. Maybe you have budget to stick to or maybe a loved one just plain refuses to part with it... Fear not, you can make that old piece new again by following the advice of an expert. Whatever your decorating dilemma might be, Leslie will show you that your solution is not far away at all. Fear Not: You Can Reupholster Anything unravels the mysteries of a skill that most do-it-yourselfers find puzzling. Fear Not will show you how quick and easy it is to reupholster just about anything. With basic skills and a few tools, upholstery can be added to your list of capabilities. Leslie will show the step-by-step process of upholstery, as well as simple recovering through detailed how-to illustrations, photographs, and project instructions. This guide will include projects of varying skill level for all of you do-it-yourselfers and will encourage you to try projects that appear to be beyond your capabilities. Some of the projects will require basic stapling and others will take the reader behind their sewing machine and well on their way to completing projects that only seem complicated. Fear Not: You can Reupholster Anything will show how to take a beat up chair from a thrift shop and revamp it to be the fun focal point of any space. Leslie will show you how simple it is to update the fabric on just about any cushioned chair. If your dining chairs are feeling a little beat up, slip covers are only a chapter away. Leslie will also show you how to change the fabric on a wood framed chair and make it part of your design dreams. Fear Not: You Can Reupholster Anything will also have a monster biggie chapter completely devoted to reupholstering that couch. Trust Leslie when she tells you that it is not as hard as you think. Entertaining for the holidays? There will be a chapter showing you how to dress up those folding chairs to make them as festive as your fete. And finally, once everything in your home has been reupholstered why not give them extra layer Leslie likes to call "decorative icing". Leslie will show you how to create beautiful pillows to complete your look.

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