How to Make Chairs With Piping and Plumbing Fittings

Cut 11 2-by-22-inch PVC piping pieces using a PVC pipe cutter or request the pipes cut at the store.

Cut two 29-by-29-inch squares of woven mesh fabric using fabric scissors to create the chair’s seat and back. Cut out a 3-by-3-inch square out of all four corners of both pieces.

Place both pieces of fabric on your work surface. Wrap all four sides of both pieces of fabric around a PVC pipe from Step 1 so it overlaps itself 1 inch. Secure it in place using straight pins. Remove the eight PVC pipes.

Sew along the straight pins on the mesh fabric using a sewing machine threaded with thread that matches the fabric. Remove the straight pins, leaving four pockets on each of the two pieces of fabric.

Reinsert PVC pipes into seven of the eight sewn pockets. Leave the eighth pocket empty. The mesh piece with only three pipes is the chair’s back.

Place the chair's back in front of you with the empty pocket closest to you. Place two two-way, 90-degree-angle pipefittings onto the two corners farthest from you. Insert the ends of the pipes into the openings of the pipefittings. If necessary, use a rubber mallet to tap the pipes into place.

Place the chair’s seat in front of you. Place a four-way PVC pipefitting on the two corners farthest from you and two three-way pipefittings on the two corners closest to you.

Insert the two exposed pipes in the chair’s back into the upward facing openings of the four-way pipe fittings to connect the seat and back together.

Insert one PVC pipe into each of the open ends of the pipe fittings on the chair’s seat to create the chair’s legs. Place a PVC cap on the end of each chair leg to finish the chair.