Bring On The Fur (ish)

I have spoken a lot about my office.  I sure have been doing a lot of prep work for it.

I’ve shown you my desk, and I even posted about this coral dresser that will host great storage for my office.  I’m thinking this hall tree will be in my office, too.

If only I had an office.

Soon.  Soon I will.  But in the meantime, I keep planning, and saving.

And, as I write, I have two chairs being reupholstered in this fabric.

I got the chairs at Goodwill, and of course they will be a future post, but one of the chairs came with an ottoman.  This ottoman:

Ugly.  Dusty.  Stained.  No problem.

I decided to go ahead and tackle that project this weekend.  I put a lot of thought into what fabric I would use to recover the ottoman.  Being that the chair fabric is a little on the loud side, the ottoman needed to be a little calmer.  Still, I wanted texture.

Onward.  First, I had to remove a bazillion upholstery tacks.

After all of the tacks were removed, I cut the fabric off.  Then, I primed and painted the base.

I cut a piece of batting to size, and stapled it on the ottoman.

The fabric that I decided to use is a furry-type fabric.  It had the calm and the texture that I wanted.   I cut it to size, and being that it’s furry, I didn’t want any staples to show, and applying a trim wouldn’t look so hot.  So, I hot glued the furry fabric on, tucking in the raw edges.

And just like that, I have transformed this ottoman.   It sure will look great in that don’t-have-it-yet-but-hope-to-soon, office.