OTTOMAN MAKEOVER

I have shared most of the tweaks and makeover's I did for the family room. Today I am sharing my customized ottoman makeover.

We did not want to crowd our family room. So instead of a coffee table, we decided to go with an ottoman or an upholstered coffee table that could double as extra seating when we had company.

I had plans to DIY a coffee table to an upholstered one. After considering the cost of the coffee table, the foam and fabric, I decided to re-upholster an upholstered ottoman.
I ordered this one from Walmart. For $80, the faux leather ottoman was pretty sturdy and in the size I wanted.

It took me few weeks to finalize on the fabric. I ordered 2 yards of this Greek-key print online. I spread the fabric on the ottoman and I loved how it looked.

One Sunday, Mr. Tweaks and Sanjan went to watch a game of baseball in the City and I planned to work on this makeover.

First, I turned the ottoman upside down and removed the legs.

I did not plan on removing the faux leather neither tufting the ottoman.

Then I spread the fabric on the floor, right side down. I was watching Orange is the new black on Netflix.

Then I placed the ottoman on the fabric upside down. I wrapped the fabric from one end inside the ottoman and marked the fabric. I did this on all the four sides. Like how you would measure if you are wrapping a box before cutting the wrapper.

Once the fabric was cut to measurement, I started stapling from one side. At first, I stapled six inches apart and went around all the four sides.

I went on a second round of stapling at a distance of an inch apart to make the fabric tighter. Do you see the corner's.
At this point, I stopped clicking photos.
I cut the extra fabric in the corner exactly how you would do if you are wrapping a gift wrapper.
Once I had less fabric, I stapled the corners and screwed the legs back to the ottoman.

You can see here how the corners have been wrapped.

Upholstering this ottoman took less than an hour. And easily, one person job.

There were couple of places where I had not pulled the fabric hard enough to staple and I can see the snags. I so wished Mister was home.

Now, on to more photos of the family room.

My succulent is enjoying the sunlight. I am not worried about it anymore....:-).

The only other piece this room needs is a rug. In navy blue and white. We have plans to remove the carpets and go for Engineered wood in the house. I will wait till the carpets are removed to get the rug in. 

I am sharing few photos of the rugs from my folder I had saved. I will have to run them through Mister before I finalize. He does not like rugs with designs that are too busy.

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My expense for this makeover was the ottoman and the 2yards of fabric.
A before and after for you.

Have you done any re-upholster projects recently? How did it go for you?

Have a great week ahead.
Reshma

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