Category: DIY

Learn how I complete this DIY stool makeover that I found on Facebook Market Place and turned them into beautiful stools, and they are functional decor as well.

If you’ve been here when I made a table for the back porch, you might know I want two stools to place under the table!  To view the table project, click here Hairpin Tall Table.

 

For quite some time, I was in search for stools at the thrift store, well, my patience wore off, so I searched on Marketplace for them.  I was able to snag two stools for only $10!

I knew right away what I wanted to do with the stools, my plan is cleaning the stools up first and see if I need to paint the base of the stools.  The top part of the stools I want to have the look as our porch furniture.

To upholster the seats, I had some leftover navy outdoor fabric from Kristin’s cushions I recovered a couple of years ago.  This makeover should not cost me anything but the price of the stools.  I have some rope as well to make a cording around the bottom of the seat.

STEPS TO FOR A DIY STOOL MAKEOVER

I took the seat off the base.  This was pretty simple, unscrewing 4 wood screws.  As you can see for yourself, the stools are very dirty.

Removed the leather material from the seat, this means I have to remove 1000 stables.  Ugh, the worst part.

Since the stools looked so dirty, I decided to give the cushions and wood leg bases a good spray with Spectracide.  Better to be safe than sorry.

 

I let the cushion sit in the sun to dry, I turned to the base of the stools.  A part of the stool was coming apart.

It turned out to be an easy fix, a couple screws were missing.  I added some wood screws and tightened up the ones in the stool.  We are good to go!

Now it’s time to wash the stools down with soapy water to remove all the grime.

Allow the barstool to dry before moving to the next step.

I decided to give the base of the stools a coat of paint with Metallic Oil-Rubbed Bronze spray paint.  It was the closest paint I had to match our porch furniture.

Again, taking a long look at my cushions on the porch, it has a cording trim and button tuffs.  I want that for my stool as well.

For the cushion cording, I am using some rope I had on hand, I wrapped the rope around the cushion for the amount I would need.

I cut a wide enough strip of the outdoor fabric to cover the rope.  Using a basic stitch, I wrapped the fabric around the rope to make the cording.

I set the cording aside while I tackled the seat cushions.

To see how I cover a basic cushion you can view the tutorial here → Cushion.

Once I had the fabric on the cushions, I added the cording.

Now comes something I hadn’t done before, the button tuffs.  Here goes, it’s probably not the proper way to do it, but it worked for me.

I glued the navy fabric onto the buttons with adhesive spray.

With thread and needle I stitched a loose basic stitch all around the button and gathered up the material.  Cut the excess fabric from the back of the button.

With a heavy-duty string, I placed the needle through the button hook and thread the string so the button would be in the middle of the string.

Since my cushion had button tuffs already, I was able to use the existing hole and thread the string from the top of the cushion to the back inside the drilled hole.

Cut the string from the needle.

Turn the cushion around and thread the string from the front cushion and run it through the cushion into the drilled hole in the back.

Take the two strings and pull as tight as you can until the button makes a dent in the cushion.

Keeping the strings pulled, staple the strings to the board.

Do the same to the other side of the cushion.

Don’t look at my staple mess, I wasn’t strong enough to get some of the staples all the way into the board.  That’s why there are so many. 🙂

I did wash the black cover because it was so dirty.  I stapled that on the back of the cushions.

Attached the cushions back to the wooden base.

Let’s look at the stools when I brought them home.

And now!

They go so well with our furniture back on the porch.  I love how the button tuffs turned out and even the cording.

Only cost me $10 for the stools because everything else I had on hand.  These will be a great addition to the porch, extra seating and a fashion piece for under the table.

If you like how my stools turned out, let me know in the comments.  Thanks for stopping by, make sure you come back next week when I share our back porch all decorated for summer!

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