DIY Striped Upholstered Bench

Yesterday I shared a few changes I made to our master bedroom. One of those changes was the pianoforte bench that I made into an upholstered stool. And the best operate is that I made it for but $5!

I was originally inspired past times the $400 Ballard Designs Simone Bench. It's totally awesome...and totally out of my cost range.

So, I decided to brand my ain instead.

The entire projection took less than an hour, together with was super tardily to do. Basically, I saved virtually $400 (the cost of the real bench) past times making it myself. Not besides bad for an sixty minutes alongside a hammer together with a mucilage gun. 

I started alongside a basic pianoforte bench that I originally flora at a thrift store.

 I purchased 2 yards of textile (a remnant I was lucky plenty to discovery for a few bucks), 1 box of nailheads, together with and then used what I had on hand: hotglue, mucilage gun, hammer, scissors, together with pillow stuffing.
You tin give notice invest inward foam padding if you lot want, but I bring tons of extra accent pillow inserts together with but used the stuffing from those equally a inexpensive option to foam.

The kickoff affair you'll desire to exercise is accommodate together with secure your textile to your bench. Line upward your textile how you lot desire it together with and then secure the textile to ii of the bench legs. Use ii nailheads, 1 on each of the ii legs. 

  

Once the textile is secured, piece of work on making the corners for both legs on this side. To brand a neat corner, hotglue the textile onto the leg together with crease over the travel past times part. 

Once it's folded neatly, together with you lot tin give notice clearly run across how much textile you lot need, cutting the fabric. Leave plenty to crease virtually an inch of it under.

Next, crease it nether together with larn far fifty-fifty alongside the operate of the textile that's already secured.

Next, secure the corner alongside ii to a greater extent than nailheads, 1 straight on the corner, together with 1 close the border of the leg.

Next, add together some nailheads to solely ONE of the long sides, together with both ends. 

You'll create amount inward your nailhead trim down later. For now, you'll but desire to add together plenty to secure the textile inward place. That way, if you lot mess up, you lot won't bring to pry upward a 1000000 nails.
At this point, your bench should survive secured on three sides, alongside 1 side all the same open.
TIME TO STUFF!
I used the stuffing from ii pillows for my bench cushion. You tin give notice larn far equally fluffy/unfluffy equally you lot want.



I similar to work pillow stuffing for my upholstery. (It's all from novel pillows though. Don't work onetime pillow stuffing. That's but gross, together with a dust-mite nightmare.)  It's actually tardily to force it into all of the corners together with it makes the cushion actually comfy. You bring to piece of work it a trivial flake to larn it even, but I'm upward for the challenge if it agency saving $50 on foam. 

Once your bench is fully stuffed, describe the textile tight together with start securing alongside nailheads. If you're using upholstery fabric, it should survive heavy plenty that when it's pulled tight, your stuffing looks pretty even. If it's lumpy, rework it or describe your textile tighter. Complete the remaining ii corners but similar you lot did alongside the other ones. Now create amount inward the residuum of your nailheads. You tin give notice work equally many nailheads equally you'd like. I chose to infinite them virtually 1.5'' apart. To brand the textile super secure together with finished looking, I also hotglued the textile some all the edges.

It's non perfect, together with equally alongside every DIY project, it requires a trivial lawsuit together with error. However, for $5 together with an hour's time, I yell upward it looks nifty inward our bedroom!

Thanks thus much for stopping past times today! If you lot desire to run across where this trivial bench ended upward eventually (in 1 of my favorite areas of the house!) larn here.

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