Handmade Simply: September 2012

I have been in desperate need of recovering my vanity bench cushion for the longest time but honestly...I've just been really lazy. I think another reason is that I just could not find any fabric that I was all that excited about. However - I did finally find this grey and white medallion fabric on fabric.com and that got my rear in gear!

Here is the bench BEFORE. It had a water stain on it and not only that it was just a sad, blah color. It needed some glitz!

So to get started I had my hubs take the top off.

Next he took the black lining off by removing the staples. I decided to leave the original suede cover on. I just didn't think it was necessary to remove it.

Next I layed the lid on top of my fabric so I could decide where to cut it.

Once I decided where I wanted to cut I just eye balled it and cut away. I wasn't super technical with this part, I just made sure it was going to be long enough to come up over the cushion.

Once everything was cut and ready to go I started staple gunning the fabric to the back board of the cushion. I started with one of the long sides first and then just worked my way around. I really wanted to make sure that it's going to stay in place and stay tight so I did lots of staples.

Next I did the short end and realized that to make the corner lay right I needed to trim so I did that as soon as I had staple gunned that side.

I checked out how the original corner was done and decided I would try to do mine that way as well. It made the most sense to me and seemed the easiest. There is probably a better way but that's OK.

Here is how my corners ended up looking...

Almost done! As a final touch I decided to staple gun the black lining that we removed in the beginning, back on to make it look professional and like it was always there. I also figured it would give it just a little bit more reinforcement. Then I screwed the lid back on and bada bing bada boom. It's done!