Reupholstering for dummies!!

Some­times I amaze myself, more often than not it’s because of my utter incom­pe­tence but not this time suckas!!  LOL sorry about that lit­tle ghetto moment but I’m pretty pleased with myself.  Last sum­mer we scored a piano off of freecy­cle and although it’s a lovely lit­tle thing the bench it came with didn’t have a cush­ion on it. Being a bit ghetto (see pre­vi­ous exam­ple) I just left it with the bare unfin­ished wood for almost 12 months.  Now that Squidge is tak­ing piano lessons and the liv­ing room is almost done (done enough that we’re mov­ing fur­ni­ture back in) it was time to get the bench sorted. My first prob­lem was what fab­ric to choose? You’d think this would be fairly sim­ple but you would be soo wrong.  We haven’t decided that color sofa to buy. The walls are a soft grey-blue, our cur­rent sofa is red.  We don’t have any cur­tains on the win­dow. I refuse to dec­o­rate around a sofa I’m not keep­ing and which is a color our new one is NOT going to be.  Sooo the dilemma was a pretty big one.  In the end I chose one I thought would be pretty neu­tral.  The brown spots match the piano, the blue spots match the walls and I can dec­o­rate around the cream and green spots. Or if it all goes hor­ri­bly wrong I can replace it with some­thing that matches a bit more. In the end I thought it’s just a lit­tle bench and I live the fab­ric. the end. amen.

So this is the end prod­uct. I didn’t take a pic­ture of me screw­ing the seat back onto the bench. It was a pain in the ass and well I didn’t even think about pic­tures so… tada!! It’s not per­fect but it’s bet­ter than what was on there (noth­ing) and for my first attempt I’m going to give myself a score of 7.

Also ignore the card­board under the piano. Wal and I made a holy mess of mov­ing the piano over our newly sanded and var­nished floor.  I thought putting the card­board under the cast­ers would pro­tect the floor. I was wrong. So very very wrong. That’s all I’m going to say in the mat­ter except to say thank god we still have to sand a few more rooms and will be hir­ing the sander again.