I have been busy, we moved twice in three months. My husband retired, we purchased a small fixer while we looked for a lake home. Well our luck is that 45 days after we moved to the little house he would find the lake house. Another fixer so I barely got the first one finished painting before the moving trucks loaded my stuff for the final move.
The lake house needs tons of work too, but I decided I was tossing in fun projects along the way. Not just painting walls and trim.
This bench has been in my family for over 30 years. It has set at the end of beds, been used as a sofa table, foot stool. It has been in the master closet as a dressing bench for the last 10 years and previous two houses. So I didn't care what the covering looked like. But in this house it was going in the bathroom and going to be visual.
I lugged it to the garage, because it was the 4th of July weekend, we had only been in the house for 10 days, I had unpacked two moving trucks to be able to have a 1/2 way set up house for the family to come for the holiday. FYI bad idea, you are so tired that you are not a good host.
So hiding in the garage I rolled it over and removed the bottom felt. A rescue kitten had destroyed the lining. I also removed the staples that held that and the decorative piping. Once that was removed the padding was in remarkable shape I decided to leave the floral fabric in place and I opted against adding any additional batting. I was using a heavy upholstery fabric. I got a yard and a quarter because I forgot the measurement when I was at the store.
I like the geometric pattern. I opted to leave the legs the original color because I didn't want to add another dark wood to the room. The cabinets are a very dark color. I knew I wasn't ready to paint them yet.
New life in an old bench. I am very pleased with the results. So for thirty dollars I have a modern look on a family piece. It really is a great use of something I love and can't seem to part with.
Happy Upholstering.
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