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Step 13Cover with speed cloth
After the edging is installed, you're ready to cover the table.
Clear the room of any obstacles that may impede your crawling around, vacuum, and vacuum a second time. There's not much that would suck more than ripping that new cloth at the last moment.
Lay out your chosen cloth face down on the carpet, and then carefully place the table, foam side down, on top of the material.
Pick a side and start in the middle, placing the staples as close together as you can, and keeping the fabric wrinkle free. Then move to the opposite side, pulling the fabric tight and moving out from the center.
For the ends, start in the middle again, and move in small increments towards the sides. Be sure to pull the fabric taught as you continue around the curve, making pleats as needed.
Due to either our staple gun, or the possibility that we were not using it correctly, not all of our staples were going in all of the way. So, we took the time to go around the outside with a hammer and make sure each staple was completely in. This didn't take too long, wasn't hard, and made for some fun. Who doesn't enjoy beating things with a hammer, anyway?
Once the perimeter is completed, cut off the excess with a very sharp utility knife to avoid tearing, leaving about half an inch behind the line of staples.
Clear the room of any obstacles that may impede your crawling around, vacuum, and vacuum a second time. There's not much that would suck more than ripping that new cloth at the last moment.
Lay out your chosen cloth face down on the carpet, and then carefully place the table, foam side down, on top of the material.
Pick a side and start in the middle, placing the staples as close together as you can, and keeping the fabric wrinkle free. Then move to the opposite side, pulling the fabric tight and moving out from the center.
For the ends, start in the middle again, and move in small increments towards the sides. Be sure to pull the fabric taught as you continue around the curve, making pleats as needed.
Due to either our staple gun, or the possibility that we were not using it correctly, not all of our staples were going in all of the way. So, we took the time to go around the outside with a hammer and make sure each staple was completely in. This didn't take too long, wasn't hard, and made for some fun. Who doesn't enjoy beating things with a hammer, anyway?
Once the perimeter is completed, cut off the excess with a very sharp utility knife to avoid tearing, leaving about half an inch behind the line of staples.
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