Vanity Bench Makeover

Hey everyone! How was your weekend? I ~~sweated piece I~~ worked on "fall-i-fying" my porch as well as patio (Oklahoma hasn't read the memo that it's Fall yet), as well as am spending today trying to twine upwardly the residuum of the house. In the midst of cozying things upwardly as well as spreading pumpkins around, I had fourth dimension to crush inwards a quick slice of furniture projection too.

This projection came out of necessity, sooner than I planned. My Mom gave me this one-time bench several years ago. It's been inwards the attic patiently waiting for our bath reno (that's yet non happening yet). Even though there's a cubby for a bench inwards my bath cabinet, I don't commonly sit down downwards to practise my make-up, therefore I wasn't actually missing anything.

Until, my daughter started getting also tall for me to accomplish her pilus to create it (as I type that through tears...). After she spent several hair-fixing sessions sitting on the side of the tub, it dawned on me that I needed to clit this stool out as well as purpose it!

Here it is inwards all of it's pre-makeover nas-ti-ness. Yuck! But I similar the construct clean lines as well as the size was perfect for the cubby space.

I wanted to purpose a textile that would endure amongst the colors i time the bath does eventually larn re-done, therefore I looked through my stash as well as remembered that I had this Schumacher Nanjing sample that I picked upwardly for $2 at a designer's garage sale. The swatch was squeamish as well as big (25x25), but the dumb Schumacher samples ever bring grommets correct inwards the middle of them therefore they tin hang on a display rack. Those holes weren't working amongst my plan, therefore I idea I'd run into if I could endure simply about them. I figured I didn't bring anything to lose...

First, I used a apartment caput screwdriver to pry the grommet apart, as well as removed it. You tin run into i of the holes left behind at the tip of the pencil below.

Then, I folded the hole inwards half, amongst correct sides together, as well as stitched simply about it. I started a piffling to a higher identify the hole correct on the border of the fold, as well as therefore curved out simply about the hole, as well as therefore dorsum to the crimp below it.

Then, I opened the textile as well as pressed the seam I made down. It's non perfect, but the holes were gone as well as the entire swatch was forthwith usable.

The repaired spots yet ended upwardly unopen to the transcend as well as bottom edge, therefore at to the lowest degree they weren't correct inwards the middle. You tin run into i of them inwards the bottom correct of the photograph below - I intend if I would bring pressed it a piffling improve those piffling folds wouldn't bring been noticeable. Going to larn the Fe now...

After removing the one-time crimson textile from the top, I added a novel sparse layer of foam as well as wrapped it all amongst a novel layer of batting, stapling underneath amongst a staple gun. Then, I wrapped the textile tightly simply about as well as stapled.