First Upholstery Project: Turning a Coffee Table into an Ottoman

Now that Alyenna is getting more and more mobile every day I knew that we needed to tackle our coffee table.It has sharp point corners and two of them have been gnawed into shank-like spikes by our sweet, sweet puppies.
I have cut my leg on these spikes a few times and with a cruiser at perfect spike level...They had to go!

It was in rough shape, but it's a well-made, sturdy table, so I didn't want to just get rid of it.

Marcus was up for the idea, I just needed to get it started. I went on a sale day to Joanns and bought fabric, foam, and batting, all at half off price! $20 for outdoor fabric...good for all the uses that I forsaw for this ottoman (foot rest, grimy fingers, constant touching by little hands), $6 for batting and $16 for foam (took 2.5 yards). Roughly $42 for a brand new ottoman!

Here's how pretty it was to begin with:

Check out those heat marks, some nails and on the right you can kinda see the chewed corners

And the Transformation:

      Added extra support for the foam & cut off those points

Glued on Foam (we used gorilla glue, wished we had used the spray adhesive that was recommended-would have been better coverage)

We were short a few inches of foam for the corners so I rolled batting tight for similar firmness

Oops....I forgot to get a picture of the quilt batting. Stapled it nice and tight and now for Fabric:

Wah lah...

Not perfect by any stretch, but was a fun project to do together and I am really happy with how it turned out!!

And a video of the 9 month old cutie from a couple weeks ago: