A Butt Lift

I just wanted to share a tip that my lovely slipcover lady, Elisa, showed me when she did my living room couch.  When she was putting the seat cushions into their covers, she wrapped some batting around the cushions first. This made them firmer and look a little higher sitting on the couch.  This picture was taken shortly after the slipcover was done.

Oddly enough, this couch didn’t really need the “lift”, but my den couch did!  That couch was where I recuperated for two weeks each time, for the two times I had to have surgery {no stair climbing}, and where my daughter stayed after she had her baby {C-section, no stair climbing}.  It was always a very comfortable couch, nappable {spellcheck is telling me that’s not a word, but it should be!}.  Here is the chair cushion to show you what the couch cushions looked like pre-batting.

Mooshed and squished down, not as bad as the couch cushions, but enough that it needs some plumping.  Here is what the couch cushions look like after I put the batting from my living room couch in them.

It was a visual difference right away and a physical difference as soon as you sat down on them.  Almost as good as new!

So if you find your chair or couch cushions could use a “butt lift” get some batting from the fabric store {not the packaged stuff but off the bolt} and just get enough to go around the top and bottom of the cushion.   Your butt will thank you!

Kathy