@starwarsknower said:
Hi all,
I'm making a scene of my living room, and want to know if anyone has any tips on making high detail fabric-looking chairs. I have tried the subdivide and smoove plugin, but it makes it too small and too rounded, and ideas?
Remus is right -- there's more than one way to use subdivide and smooth.
By "too small and too rounded," you seem to mean that you're trying to create something like a typical couch cushion from a flattened cube. If you do that directly, you do get a smaller, round shape like a throw pillow. If you do it in steps, you can get just about any variation you want:
The back row is a simple shape, SS'd once, then twice.
The next row adds a pre-subdivide without smoothing, then SS'd once, then twice.
The next two rows show the effects of additional steps of pre-subdividing before smoothing. Somewhere in those results is a cushion shape that will work for you... 
An unfortunate injury for someone who sits in front of a keyboard and monitor for a living. You have my sympathy, sir.
