I've been up to my knees in receipts, graphs, packing slips and invoices. End of the year bookwork dontchaknow. Mind numbing. I am not a person who loves bookwork. I do it. I do it well. But I can not find a way to enjoy it (except for when it's complete, lol). So inbetween studio work and bookwork this time of year I build in other productive breaks, distractions, sanity savers.
I found this oversized ottoman on the side of the road for free. Poor thing he'd apparently failed to keep his original home and worse still for him he'd failed to find a new owner at a yard sale as well (see the masking tape price tag on his right leg?) His fate found him upside down as you see here on the curb. He was awaiting his demise a la garbage day. Poor ottoman. Till I came along, lol...... It isn't the first (or likely last) time I've snatched a waif from the maw of the garbage truck crew. And after all this ottoman was solid, large surfaced (for extra seating or coffee-table duty as needed). So home he came with me. I could feel his relief and happiness. Mine too. Recycling is good. Free recycling is faboo!
The only problem (aside from a bit of dirt and cobwebs) was that his material wasn't quite my style. But I'd rescued some heavy duty material a few weeks earlier as I loved the pattern. I draped a corner of the material over the sad little ottoman and voila - the two were perfect for each other! I needed only to remove ottomans legs, and with a bit of cutting, tucking and a staple gun I was on my way to a really nice new (to me) piece of furniture.....
More pictures of the process below
A few of my tools. Two of his legs removed alongside my trusty phillips head screwdriver and his price tag (of a whopping $2.00) He really deserved another chance....
And here he is, after my re-do (with a before picture right next to it for comparison). I'm happy. Stool is happy. Landfill is happy. I love it when a plan comes together lol
What do you think? :-)
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