As much as I LOVE linen furniture, there is one drawback, if it is a piece you sit on everyday, like my tufted chairs…they will pill. This hasn’t happened to my tufted linen headboard (bc technically we are not siting on the headboard) but I have recently noticed these horrible little balls on my two tufted chairs. Unfortunately pilling is hard to avoid, as I’m sure you have noticed these unwanted friends on your sweaters too. After cleaning up my chairs I had to share with you guys how to remove pilling from any kind of fabric furniture.
Pilling occurs when loose fabric twists into small balls from friction, ie: my husband sitting on my chairs caused this (and my crazy dog that uses them as launch pads). Well OK I do sit on them sometimes too bc they really are comfortable!
If you look to the right side of this picture you can see all the pilling! Yuck!
We have had these chairs for about four years so I would say they have weathered pretty well for the use they get. Occasionally I have noticed the pilling but it didn’t bother me that much until recently. I was taking some pictures and could actually see them in the shot! (It also made the chairs look kind of dirty.) So of course at that point I admitted to myself there was a problem, thats the first step right?
When you have pills on clothing you can try and shave them off, which I never actually tried, or you can get an electronic fabric defuzzer and say goodbye to them. (I linked the one I used at the end of this post) I decided I would try that route with my chairs, these are two large chairs we are taking about, and with the tufting I thought the electric tool might work better.
First thing was to order one on Amazon because why not, I order everything on Amazon lately, being pregnant in the summer means leaving the house as little as possible. And of course Amazon Prime….
In the pictures below you can see how clean the left side of the cushion is and how pilled the right side is, this was after I already used the fabric defuzzer to remove the pills on the left side.
Look how good the left chair looks below after being “de-pilled”, compared to the untouched right chair!
Removing the pilling from fabric was super easy to do, these 2 chairs took less than an hour and I just sat in them watching TV the whole time. The chairs were given a new life and I can not believe I let them go on living with pills for that long! If you have any fabric furniture and you noticed some of these littles balls on them, I completely recommend trying this!
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