Upholstery project
Dec 23, 2019
Haven't done much in the way of digital or 3D projects in the past few months, but I have done some real-world projects. Here's one of them: I took an old coffee table I made about 5 years ago, and upholstered it to be a storage ottoman.
Here's what it looked like before I started the project, as mentioned, a small coffee table I'd constructed back around 2014.
Laid the new upholstery fabric over the top so I could cut it to fit and allow for the new pad.
Marked the pad to fit the tabletop.
Cut the pad with some old scissors.
Used my circular saw to cut off the legs.
Not as clean a cut as I'd have liked, but it will work.
Used a nice miter saw I found at Habitat for Humanity to cut the angled feet.
Pretty satisfied with how they turned out.
Stained them a nice mahogany.
While the stain was drying, I began stapling the fabric to the tabletop, around the new pad.
Sewed a big loop to go around the storage area to basically fit like a big sock, so there wouldn't be any staples showing on the edges.
Put some padding on the sides so it wasn't just hard wood underneath the fabric.
Stapled the side loop at the top and bottom, out of sight.
Got all the fabric on there, it was nearly done at this point.
Added a tufted spot on the middle with a button.
Got the feet attached to the bottom, and finished it up.
Made a small pillow to go with it with the leftover fabric.
