An Ottoman For My Living Room

A few months ago I posted about my ottomans, or “tuffets” as I call them, here.  I showed a base for that post that was put together and it just needed paint, foam and fabric. 

Tuesday I got some fabric that I had ordered from fabric.com.  I bought this fabric to make a window valance for an upstairs bathroom. 

Oxford Striped Shirting in Grey/White

P. Kaufman Aviary Toile in ebony

Braemore Liang Silver

Here they are all together.

Since I decided on the Braemore toile and stripe for the window valance, the Aviary toile was available for another project.  Luckily, I remembered the base I had for a tuffet in my garage and, while I had my free quart of Glidden black paint open for my coffee table, I got the wood base and painted the legs on it black.  {Don’t be peeking at the coffee table!}

I traced the top on the foam and cut it with a serrated steak knife.  I put that on the top and then covered it with some batting, which I stapled to the underside of the round. 

I cut out my fabric leaving enough extra fabric all the way around so that I could staple that to the underside as well.  I also did a hole in the middle to do a tufted button, but I need to find the button kit to finish that off.  I’m also thinking of adding some kind of trim.

I had everything except for the fabric and that cost $14.98 a yard.  

So because of this:

I have this:

 

Listed in no particular order, but linking up with:

Metamorphosis Monday at Between Naps On The Porch

DIY Day at A Soft Place To Land

It’s So Very Creative at It’s So Very Cheri

Made It My Own at My Backyard Eden

Furniture Feature Friday at Mustard Seed Creations

Frugalicious Friday at Finding Fabulous

Saturday Night Special at Funky Junk Interiors