Master Bedroom Updates!

Hope everyone is having a groovy calendar week together with then far! I've been busy all calendar week making a few changes to our master copy bedroom. For those who follow my blog, you lot know that I've assembled this room almost solely from thrift shop finds or handmade items. Sometimes I acquire it right, together with sometimes I acquire it wrong, but our chamber continues to evolve together with improve every bit fourth dimension goes on. Today I stimulate got a few updates for you!

You may stimulate got noticed that footling striped bench peaking through inwards the higher upward pics. For nearly a twelvemonth now, I've been eyeballing this Ballard Designs Simone Bench. It comes inwards many dissimilar colors, but I've had my oculus assail 1 pattern, together with 1 pattern alone.

 However, at the cost of $401, it did non friction match into my $10 budget. 

So, I decided long agone to brand my own. One 24-hour interval final calendar week I saw this bench I had sitting inwards my bedroom.

Hello, sir.

This was an former $5 pianoforte bench I brought habitation from Goodwill. I originally painted it nighttime dark-brown together with set it close my hutch desk inwards the chamber (last seen here). And together with then this week, I turned it into my really ain version of the Ballard striped bench.

It cost me less than $5 to upholster it using some remnant cloth from Joann's. I finished it off amongst some silvery nailheads together with painted the legs white. 

And since I'm no stranger to upholstering things 

(like my DIY dropcloth headboard) it took me less than an hr to completely upholster my footling striped bench.

I've been looking for something to stimulate got this room upward a notch, together with I mean value this may stimulate got helped. I all the same request some color, but I'm all the same working on that!

This room volition forever live a move inwards progress, since I'm totally learning every bit I become along.

One to a greater extent than update. Remember the thrift shop desk turned vanity, paired amongst my thrift shop chair (that I reupholstered amongst bluish stripes)?

Well, I decided to alter it. I painted the mirror silver, painted the vanity amongst my favorite paint, together with got a novel ivory leather chair from Marshalls.

I mean value the whole things industrial plant amend amongst this room now.

I added some fresh flowers unopen to the room. While non a permanent addition, it ever makes me happy to stimulate got some flowers around.

So that's all of the updates to the chamber for now!
 Make certain together with halt past times tomorrow, when I'll live sharing step-by-step how I made my Ballard Designs knock-off bench from an former pianoforte bench!

Also, earlier you lot go, but to remind you....the chamber looked similar this iii years ago. :)

see the amount even out close THAT here.

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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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How To Reupholster H5N1 Chair: My ten Best Chair Makeovers

My dear for thrift store shopping all started when nosotros starting fourth dimension moved into our house three years ago, as well as I realized I couldn't afford to decorate our entire abode amongst construct novel furniture. I began searching for inexpensive ways to render our house, as well as shortly learned merely how many treasures were waiting to travel unearthed at nearby thrift stores. I've transformed a lot of junk inwards the past times few years....old dressers, tables...but my favorite is the chair.  Having zero prior sense inwards using pigment or reupholstering furniture, I slow taught myself (through lawsuit as well as error) how to stimulate got a junky former chair as well as plough it into something worthy of using inwards my home. Today, I'll demonstrate y'all my 10 best chair makeovers, as well as hopefully operate out y'all amongst a few ideas on how y'all tin update whatever former chairs y'all may stimulate got laying around. Enjoy!

#1. Ballard Designs Striped Knock-Off Bench:

This is my favorite as well as most recent upholstery project. I took an former $5 Goodwill pianoforte bench transformed it into a lookalike of my favorite Ballard Designs bench. All it took was a trivial paint, approximately striped fabric, as well as well-nigh an hr of my time. See the amount storey here.

#2. The Rocking Chair Makeover 

A friend of mine institute an former rocker at a local estate sale as well as enlisted my help inwards paradigm as well as reupholstering it. The earlier as well as afterward is pretty drastic. Take a await here.

#3. The Striped Chair Makeover:

This trivial blueish striped chair was ane of my favorite projects to date. My mom picked this upward at a local thrift store as well as gave it to me to reupholster. I absolutely loved the agency this chair turned out. You won't believe what it looked similar before. 

#4. The Stenciled Vanity Stool Project:

For this project, I took an old, outdated, wooden stool as well as upgraded it amongst approximately pretty cloth as well as fringe trim. (I also stenciled as well as painted the vanity table!). See that storey here.

#5. The Little Blue Tablecloth Chair:

I institute this trivial chair for $5 at Goodwill as well as totally transformed it using calorie-free blueish pigment (on the wood) as well as reupholstering the cushion amongst a tablecloth!! It turned out to travel a great, actually inexpensive choice to upholstery fabric. I finished it off amongst silverish nailheads. See to a greater extent than here.

#6. The Blue & White Painted Fabric Chair

I dear this trivial chair. Months afterward I reupholstered it the starting fourth dimension time, I decided to play amongst it again. But this time, I did something actually different.....I took plainly white cloth as well as painted blueish stripes on it. Sanding the cloth (after the pigment dried) amongst fine grit sandpaper was all it took to construct this chair soft as well as comfy. See the amount tutorial here.

#8. Green & White Trellis Chair

This trivial chair is ane of my favorite chair projects. See to a greater extent than here.

#8. The Ballard Designs Knock Off Chair: 

I was ecstatic to notice this chair at a thrift store for merely a few bucks. Especially when I came abode as well as saw the exact same chair inwards a Ballard Designs catalog for $400! I gave this chair the same upholstery handling every bit  I did the final one, entirely this fourth dimension paired amongst a cute striped pillow! See to a greater extent than here.

#9. The Drop Cloth Chair

Basically, I decided to follow the massive tendency of dropcloth upholstery on this chair. And I vicious inwards love. Soon See the amount storey of this chair here.

#10. The Dropcloth Upholstered Headboard:

Okay, as well as hence this ane isn't a chair. But, I dear it as well as hence much that I'm including it anyways. To run into how I upholstered my headboard amongst a dropcloth, watch this post.

Hopefully, I've left y'all amongst a few ideas on ways to redo former chairs. If y'all ask specific instructions on how to reupholster, hither are a brace neat posts well-nigh that.

How To Reupholster H5N1 Chair

and

How To Reupholster the Top of a Bench

Have a wonderful week!

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