Window Seat Makeover

May 25, 2016

Our new home has some really cool features like this window seat under the skylight. I can see the city from the window and I love sitting here in the afternoon when the sun is shining. What I didn’t like was the blue hideous material! It had to go. Every morning I would wake up and look over thinking, I have to do something about that! Well it turned out it was easier than I thought. Here is the step by step.

Step One: Find some material

I wanted to use the old throw pillows because they are really comfortable and large ones like that can be expensive. I had to find material to cover them with, I decided on felt, it was soft and had a great texture.

Step Two: Measure out the pillow

For this step I simply took off one of the pillow cases and used it as a guide, once I had cut a piece of felt I then used that one piece to trace the rest.

Step Three: Pin and sew

After I had cut out all 4 pieces I pinned them together. I don’t have a sewing machine so my friend helped me out on this step! Phew! Saved my fingers from hours of hand sewing.

Step Four: Take off existing material

It was not as easy as I thought to take off this material! Those staples were really in there! I tried scissors, a staple remover and then finally started pulling the material which worked in the end.

Step Five: Recover the window seat

To recover the window seat I bought a piece of black material. I wanted the contrast in the room and couldn’t really have a pattern as our blanket for the bed has a large pattern. I started by stapling each side in the middle and then working my way down each side. Finally did the end, below, which was kind of like wrapping a present.