She says, "What do you do with an old coffee table with a dinged up or stained top? Turn it into a soft, lovely, upholstered bench for your hallway, end of your bed or as an upholstered ottoman in front of the sofa. This pine bench was $13.99 at Goodwill (a little overpriced in my opinion). With some fresh new fabric, supplies and these simple instructions, it morphed into a different creature. "
The Cliff's Notes version:
Paint
Cut Foam
Make holes to accommodate buttons
Staple on Dacron
Cover with Upholstery Fabric
Finish with Covered Buttons
For the full lesson: Shelly gives the full list of supplies needed and very thorough step by step instructions on how to complete the DIY on both her blog, Flipt Studio and Curbly. Check them out for all the details.
Thanks for sending us ANOTHER great project tutorial, Shelly!
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Comments (9)
I was hours away from taking my ugly coffee table to the goodwill before I read this post! Thanks for this great idea, I've been wishing for a nice bench at the end of my bed and this will work out fantasticly!
Cute results! But I kinda liked the old table too...
looks great!
Love the fabric, shelly how did you make the button holes?
Good idea! I looked at the complete instructions, but I still don't quite understand - do you staple the dacron and fabric to the bench itself? If so, do you need a special kind of stapler? Thank you.
Pteetsa - you'd just need a staple gun.
You can get an electric staple gun (Black and Decker) that works better than manual. I use a pneumatic upholstery gun hooked up to an air compressor but the electric does the job. The dacron is rolled under and stapled down, then you do the same thing with the fabric. It's like maiking a bed with a flat sheet, sort of.
Circles were just cut out of the foam where I wanted buttons to be, that leaves an indentation. There will be a nice little nest waiting for the buttons after covering the foam with dacron and the fabric. In the first picture above, you can see the drilled holes for the button twine to thread through.
Hope that helps.
Correction: The electric staple gun is a Sears Craftsman
shelly
Awesome! Where did you get a hold of that fabric, the pattern is great!
Fabric came from Calico Corners but I recently saw it at Hancock Fabrics. I love it too.