Today I recovered my bar stool seats - Tutorial

 Before - Tired brown faux leather seat covers that were starting to show their wear.

 After - Cute ocean themed seat covers. LOVE!

 First cut your piece of fabric about 2-3 inches bigger than what you are covering.

 Lay your project and fabric face down.

 I started with the straight edge of my project and lightly pulled the fabric around and tacked it in place lining it up nicely across the whole edge.

 Second view of the first edge.

 First edge finished.

 Next pull the fabric over the opposite edge. Pull tight and staple in place.

 Pulling tight at each staple, add a few more across the top.

 Now, move to one of the sides and gently pull the fabric over and tack the center with a few staples.

 Next, work the opposite side and pull the fabric tight as you set a few staples directly across from the last ones.

 Then, I headed to the corner and found the spot directly between the edge staples and the top staples. Pull tight and staple this.

 Anyone who has taken a sewing class from me knows what it means to "work the middles". Working my way around the top corner, I keep placing a staple directly between the last staple and the one before it (working the middles). I hope that makes sense. I should have taken pictures of that! Sorry! :)

 I then moved to the other curve and repeated the process.

 Next, I worked the bottom corners pulling the fabric around to make it as smooth as possible and stapling.

 Again, pulling the fabric around and stapling. - Always pull snuggly!

  With all the staples in, the corner is relatively smooth.

 Finally, all the stapling is done. This is what it should look like

 Now, trim the excess fabric off to tidy it up.

 Here's your finished back.

 And this is what it looks like all done. Ready to be re-placed on the chair.

The tools I used. A screwdriver to remove the seat from the chair. A staple gun and LOTS of staples. A good, sharp pair of fabric scissors.

This may not be the professional way to do it, but it worked well and it only took a few minutes to do each stool since I just covered over the existing material. Good luck!