Have a Seat

I inherited this coffee table from my Oma and Opa, and while it was in rough shape, I couldn't handle see it going to the dump. I decided to give it new life and new purpose. It would become a bench seat.

First of all, I spray painted the brass at the bottom of the legs in my go-to colour of hammered black by Krylon and sanded the flaking paint off. It felt like I was wiping mud off my kid, the paint came off so easily. I do have intentions of painting or staining the legs... Someday. 

We had an old mattress pad that I cut up for the seat cover. I gave myself 4" extra material around the edges of the table so I'd have enough material to staple it to the underside of the table.

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I sewed the four points of the table, so it was more of a fitted cover. At some point, I started thinking that there was nowhere enough padding to make this comfortable, so I started racking my brain for ideas about what I could use. I went into the basement, and the first thing I saw was the left over underlay from our carpets. I love moments like that. It's meant to be. I cut out a chunk of underlay and put that under the mattress pad- turned- fitted cover

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I missed a couple photos of the next step so bare with me. I then took a twin fitted sheet and stapled the crap out of it to the underside of the table, covering the mattress pad and underlay. If I were to do this over again, I would use a much thicker fabric. But that would mean I will have to un-staple the crap out of this. So for now, it'll do. My boy loves standing on it when we play fussball. So if he loves it, so do I. 

Happy Trial and Error!

xo Jena