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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THIRD LIFE: NAVY BLUE LAMP MAKEOVER

Family room makeover continues with the lamps.

Mr. Tweaks has plans to install recess lights (by an electrician) in the family room (and few other spaces). But this project gets pushed to the back burner with either other projects that needs taken care of or other priorities called life.
The 2 source of light for the family room were the floor lamp and the table lamp.

I did not find better picture to share. I tried to click but this little man kept bombing.

This is an older picture with both the lamps I was talking about.

The lamps, I was looking for was something either in white or navy blue or mix of both. I searched online couple days and stopped. I loved this one. It was $180 each. No, I had plans to purchase.

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Overstock has similar ones for $160 for a pair. Still I did not want to spend that money on a pair of lamps.

I had bought these pair of brass lamps at a vintage shop 3 years ago. These are not antique. I paid $10 for each.
It's previous life, maybe the first one.

The lamps did not come with shade, so picked a pair of shades from IKEA for $10 each.

I spray painted the base a blue color. Not navy blue. These lamps were in our Master bedroom for 2 years. This picture is from then. In its second life.

Last year I changed everything in the bedroom and these lamps went inside a closet. I did try to sell them on Craigslist but no one came for them. Good thing.

Early January this year, Mr. saw these lamps in the closet and offered to take them to donate at Goodwill. I have to keep hiding my stuffs from Mr. Tweaks. If something catches his eye that is not serving any purpose, he wants to donate it.

The lamps had to be put to use so they went to the family room as is.

They stayed like this for couple months. Sometime, I rush to tweak and sometimes I take time.

Getting ready for a new life.

I covered the cords and the top part and sprayed 3 thin coats of glossy navy blue color.

My neighbor who was walking by, stopped to ask why was I painting a perfectly fine lamp. He did not wait for my answer. He reads my blog too.

I let the lamps dry for a day and then brought them inside.

To give more blue, I bought these gross grain ribbon from Hobby Lobby.

At first, I tried to stick the ribbons to the shade with fabric glue. It was not helping. I had to give another visit to pick this peel and stick fabric fuse. It is like double sided cello tape that sticks fabric to fabric.

I did not use the fuse for the complete circle of the shade. I cut small squares and stuck one side on the shade and rolled the ribbon on it and stuck the ribbon before peeling off the the wax paper on the outer side. Hope you are able to follow. I totally forget to click pictures when I get involved in some tweaks.

It took 10 minutes for each lamp. The ribbons went on the top and bottom rim of the shades.
I wanted to go couple of rounds around the shade to give the look of stripes. But since the shade is not a drum shape it would not be easy. If I had a drum shade, I would have used wider ribbons and gone with the stripes look alternating white and blue.

Like this. On second thought, I should have painted the shade. But I do not trust myself I will do a good job.

Good Housekeeping

But, the lamps are still not done.

Do you see that half done job at the tip of the base?

On both the lamps.

I need to give another coat of paint on it. For now, ignore them. The lamps got a third life in this room.
Yes, there are couple of projects you can see in these pictures. I will be back with them soon.

Another peek into the breakfast nook's wall. Yellow wall?

Tell me, have you given different color to each room in your home?

Have a great rest of the week ahead.
Reshma

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