My Creative Space......'Footstool Makeover'

Apart from all the chaos here today associated with last minute preparations for Finders Keepers on the weekend, we've squeezed in  a few minutes to do a makeover of a footstool that we bought a few weeks ago at a garage sale up the road for $2.

Before Photo

She has great character don't you think?  She just looks a little tired and grubby and needs a little bit of loving.  I started, with the aid of my little helper, by stripping back her covers and removing all the old rusty staples.  I loved the brightly coloured threads I found underneath.

Makeover Process

 

Next I gave her legs a light rub with some steel wool to get them nice and smooth and to remove a few little rub marks she had accumulated.  With a light rub of furniture oil here legs were gleaming.  We chose our brand new 'Leaves' fabric in slate to recover her with, using the old cover as a pattern, and stretched and stapled the fabric on the base. 

 

After Photo

And voila!  With less than an hours worth of effort, we turned our $2 footstool into this modernised little beauty.  What do you think?

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