Is it just me or do you feel like sometimes the days pass so quickly, you really don’t know where they go? 

The last couple of months feel like they have literally flown past and I can’t believe we are now in May. There is just so much to do…

I can’t list all of the projects I’ve been working on, let’s just say, my garage is absolutely bursting at the seams.

I’ll start I think by telling you about the old stool that I picked up for a song. I have a habit of falling in love with the shape of furniture. When I clapped eyes on this, I absolutely loved it’s beautifully carved wooden legs… No idea where to put it, just love it. Hmmm yes that’s me through and through. 

You have to look past the top cloth and the flimsy, not deep enough padding on the top as well as the jiggly red fringe. It looks to me as though someone has had a pop at reupholstering it before. 

I started by sanding and waxing his legs with clear Briwax which made an incredible difference. 

And so continues the journey to becoming glorious again. My next task was to strip him back to nothing removing all the old tacks which is what you can see me doing below.

The next job was to re-pad the naked frame using four layers of 1″ rubberised hair cut to size. Each layer is glued individually using spray adhesive and then a layer of felt before a layer of calico is added, with four holding staples put in north, south, east and west positions. Once that’s done, it’s pulled taught all the way around and the holding staples removed and the excess trimmed. 

The corners are folded tight and held with staples in the opposite position to the folds of your top cloth (ie not looking into the fold) 

Then a layer of wadding, and the top cloth can be positioned and again four holding staples added. 

I was very careful to line up the fabric evenly and symmetrically. Having added the top cloth and folded each corner, three upholstery pins were used to hold the fabric at each corner. 



The corners were then finished with a concealed ladder stitch…

Lining fabric was staples neatly underneath and taaaa-daah. C’est fini as we say! 

I love the way this has turned out. Super, uber happy and I’m sure we’ll have him in our home for many years to come ❤️