Window Seat Bench

We have had this coffee table for a while, and I actually have some sentimental closeness to it because my mother gave it to me. We don't really use it, and it actually gets in the way a lot of the time, but I wasn't ready to let it go because of its sentimental nature, so I changed it up a little and made myself a window seat!

I love windows, I love natural lighting, and I love that this apartment has such big spacious windows to let it all in! Well what a more better place to put a window seat than right in front of this huge lovely windows. It is my alternative for not have a real window seat (ya know like those cool ones that actually indent and even more when they have the cool little cupboard type thing below the cushion- now those are neat, and I really want one in my dream house some day!- but until then, this is what I got) 

So here is the lovely coffee table, it isn't bad, it just needs a change. It worked great for this little project because it is oak, so it is strong and hefty, fully capable to seat people on it

This little project only cost me $15, for what it cost to get the padding. This was a twin size mattress foam, I found it was cheaper to buy the bed foam, than to buy the actually bench/pillow foam from the craft department

I laid it out and cut it to fit- I also added a little of my own extra cotton for a little more padding, especially around sharper edges

With the assistant of my lovely strong husband and staple gun we stapled on this simple tan material. This was the little set-up I had for a few days...but it needed something, and the green legs needed to go, they just don't match the rest of the furniture (and I like Matchy-matchy!)

So I recovered the blue pillows (i had two, even though only one was shown above), so they will be matchy matchy, and then I had some extra foam an made me some round arm like pillows

Getting rid of the green, it is just too bright for my taste :)

The green has been toned down and the pillows are set. With the brilliant suggestion from my husband, I made straps for the arm pillows to help them hold in place, as seen below

I made these cute little flower deal-os with button holes on them so they could be attached, and then I put straps on to tie around. Because they are just buttoned on, I can take them off if I feel like they don't really go

Wall-a! A new little seat to add to our home! I can't decide how I like the pillow arrangements- but I guess that is what great about pillows, is they aren't permanent and they change around as quickly as my fickle mind :)

Hope you enjoyed! I had lots of fun with this one! Thanks for visiting this way and I hope you have a happy-full-of-natural-lighting sort of day!

Until next time....