Interior design ideas: four chairs get revamped - in pictures

Vintage reading chair
Covered in Merrington, in Indigo (DCLO232023), £59 a metre, Sanderson. The buttons are from The Button Queen, the piping in natural linen scraps. Penguin Library wallpaper, £65 a roll, Osborne and Little. Orin coffee table, £350, Habitat. Statement task lamp, £79, Marks and Spencer. Photograph: Aaron Tilley

Mid-century chair
Covered in Bukhara (F6452-01), £69 a metre, Osborne and Little. Shot of pink in seat pad, Tweed (CF740-2925), Bute Fabrics. Lena pendant, £50, BHS. Mountains wallpaper in Sunrise, £59.95, Miss Print. Photograph: Aaron Tilley

Victorian ladies chair
Covered in James Summer, from £80 a metre, bluebellgray, using original velvet buttons (washed!), Kvadrat felt (kvadrat.dk) and trim from Cloth House. Brooklyn tin tiles wallpaper, £219 a roll, Rockett St George. Wooden tripod lamp, £40, Sainsburys. Photograph: Aaron Tilley

60s formal chair
Covered in Lakia, £39 a metre, by Marimekko at Skandium; trim from New Trimmings, London W1. Cushion covers, from top: Navajo (120171), £30 a metre, from the Wabi Sabi collection by Scion, with on the reverse Shagreen Silk in lentil (31537/03), £45 a metre, James Hare; Jokiuoma, £39 a metre, Marimekko, as before; Navajo, as before. Steve Leung Bao wallpaper in black, £26 a roll, Graham Brown. Photograph: Aaron Tilley