Repurposing hand-me-downs or flea market finds is so incredibly fun and the options are endless. Sometimes giving a piece of furniture a face lift is as easy as visiting your local hardware store.
Most of us have an item in the home that used to have a purpose but now it's just sitting around with no particular place to go. For Sam, a broken down bench with no purpose was re-imagined into a beautiful rope bench.
After a quick trip to a local hardware store, Sam was able to fix this bench up and give it new life. The purchase of paint, towing rope (available in a variety of colors), staples and a lighter was all that was needed to create this awesome rope project.
The rope bench was achieved using a simple weave pattern and is held in place by staples — it really doesn't get much more basic than that but the results are astounding! The process was relatively easy and can be done in an afternoon.
See the full project on Today's Nest — Roping in Style: Discarded Bench Makeover.
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this is the first time I've clicked a before and after with mouth agape. Gorgeous.
Not to rain on the parade, but be warned: nylon rope can stretch. (Maybe climbing rope won't, but other types can.) So seats woven from this could sag over time. If you try this, you might want to plan for the capability of pulling the cords tight later if necessary.
Most rope will stretch over time. Climbing rope is made to stretch, so that won't work either. I would think something like this type of rope would work best. You could always tighten it up over time.
As to the diy, it looks amazing!
Wow, lovely. here is a similar DIY I tried last month....
http://saffronandsilk.blogspot.com/2011/06/chair-diy.html
Never would have thought to do it that way. Very cute! This would be great for outdoors too.
Good call, SherryBinNH on the rope stretchage.
We are very excited to have our project shown here. Regarding the stretching of the rope: nearly every rope can stretch over time although the weave on this is project is very tight. Further, this project would be equally great with a rope made from different material. We have used this as a seat (hasn't stretched yet) and a side table. Lastly, because the materials are so inexpensive, you can always change it (update it) later if it does happen to sag.
I love the bench itself, it has great bones!! But I'm just not sure how I feel about the rope. I would have maybe used a piece of canvas or Sail cloth.
Its lovely! and I don't even like yellow.
wow. that is amazing. awesome job.
Absolutely fabulous
Love it. Great colors, too.
Beautiful! I would probably do canvas strips instead, but the effect is wonderful.
Its great!
Could I post my "before and after " chair, and how?
Thanks
Wow; that looks great.