Comparatively easy

At least this tub chair has straight sides, and the inside back is at least fully padded, with no fancy front arm panel. This chair would be a bit easier if the arms were level, sometimes they are.

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What makes a tub chair hard is making decisions. The inside body parts must come out of the chair and over the roll at the arm top.

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This creates the need for many parts joined. The inside back and inside arms altogether require minimum 5 cuts. That;s 4 vertical, symmmetrical inside back seams, yes.

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This is the best tub chair to learn on, of all the possibilities. If you are ready to tackle a tub chair for the first time, this is it.

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What would be worse ? A great ski slope on the arms, with another ski slope on the front arm panel. Less padding on the inside back, with an inny hollow shape where a cushion might rest into. An outside body shape one might describe as a Tulip in bloom.

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There are far worse tub chairs out there, this is a good learning sample.

I would find this to be very easy

In fact, if the fabric chosen were 100% cotton and prewashed I would measure this. Yes, tape measure and tracing and recording numbers as opposed to pin fitting.

How is this possible ? The separate cushions will always be traced for high accuracy, tight and well fitted, so small areas of too loose body cover, if they occur, are well hidden.

The sofa shape wears a cover well, it drapes off nicely. The parts are all, beleive it or not, rectangles. The gray surface looks neutral in the too slick to too grabby assessment.

I'd be very happy to do this sofa every day of the week, once you get the process down, this is as easy as it gets.

That process ? Good skills at fabric volume management, proper use of measuring, and good skills at choosing fabric likely to make measuring successful. $675, but I can go lower to compete with this, this I can time at 10 hours. Yes, start to finish, delivery not included, 10 hours labor.

A chair can look easy and take me longer, depending on fabric chosen and the lack of flesh on that chair, or twists and turns in the shape.

Two samples share many characteristics

The perfectly level arm top surfaces, always an easy feature. The front arm panels of both sofas are perfectly straight, and straight up and down, no incline, no inny curves. This is always good.

Both sofa's outside arms are rectangles, though with the orange this is difficult to see. Both sofa's have the same shape inside arms, though not the same, easy enough.

Hard for both ? What if those back cushions are attached ? They appear to be, at least on the orange sofa. If in fact both sofas have attached backs, they are almost equal in difficulty.

Attached backs may be approached by taking the cushion out of the back covers. If so, that one would be easier, by far.

The fabrics used in current upholstery, one is slick, one sticky. Velvet grabs your cover.

The orange sofa appears to be the more difficult, if the back cushions are in fact attached, which they appear to be. The white sofa may be very very easy, if the cushions are either not attached, or easy to detach.

In this market today, I feel I can price either sofa shown at $625 to $675

If the job presented with a matching sofa, love seat and chair the breakdown I would offer is 625, 500, 350, and then a discount for doing all at one time with all one fabric choice, if cotton fabric and prewashed . The discount comes from stack cutting ( on the table in the workroom ) the chair and love seat from the pin fitted sofa.

Easy to slipcover, compared to :

This is slipcovered, yes. This is a recliner, I charged $375 in 2006.
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I would not have done this at all for a young person, but for the elderly I tend to be flexible.
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This chair has moving parts, many separate parts, several deep faced slits for handle at left and hardware not seen.
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If easy is rectangles, this has not one rectangle. Many seams fall on the bias, and there are not good answers to be had, where you see looseness.


Compare and contrast

will be the format here, you may comment and suggest pricing for your area. I will explain why I beleive the easy piece takes less time and why, you may disagree and comment.

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though the deck under the cushion gave me some challenges, this piece is self evidently rectangles. I priced this in 2005 at $175.

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easy to slipcover furniture is characterized by squared off corners and smooth level and rectangular parts. Having a cushion is easier than no cushion, and having no moving parts is easier than moving parts. The deck was difficult to interpret because of the ability to depress, when sat on the skirt rises and sticks there.