The Bench Reveal!

 

So, yesterday evening I ended up finishing my bench project!! I was way to excited about it not to finish it. When I was at the fabric store yesterday afternoon, I spotted a piece of foam that looked like the perfect size for the top of the bench so I snapped it up for a few bucks along with my super awesome yellow chandelier cotton!

 

 

 

 

 

I decided to go with a "no-sew" version for the cushion,(not really because I wanted to but because my sewing maching is still broken.) So I pulled out my trusty little glue gun and went to work! First I pinned one side of the fabric to the foam so that I'd be able to pull the other side nice and tight. Oh, and my fabric is patterned so I had to make sure to place my foam on the fabric so that the lines were straight and parallel to the edges of the foam.

 

Then I got to work with my glue gun.  First I folded over the raw edge of the overlapping piece of fabric to give it a nice finished look, and then I glued that edge down onto the piece pinned to the foam! Easy peasy, and you don't need a sewing machine or have to deal with needles! (except for the minor pinning at the beginning.... I ryhmed!!)

 

 

 

 Here's a photo showing how the edges looked once I was done...(actually they still look like that :0 ). Nice and smooth and as far as I can tell the glue should hold it together quite nicely. Doing the ends wasn't hard either, it's just like wrapping a present!

 

 

 

Here's before and after pics, they're not even comparable, for a while before I decided to redo this bench, I actually thought of bringing it to the dump. It was ugly and not functional at all, but now I am really glad I held on to it and just fixed it up!

 

 

Before

 

I love how it looks against the blue wall in our bathroom, and since my towels were yellow already it fits right in! Super happy with how it turned out!!

 

After!!!!!!!!