Posts tagged: restyle
Wanted: Green Velvet Upholstery Fabric
By ModHomeEcTeacher
I'm on the hunt for this exact color of green velvet upholstery fabric. The velvet studio sofa is from Nate Berkus' furniture collection for the The Home Shopping Network. Other photos of this piece don't look like the green in this photo. I'm specifically looking for this deep shade of green velvet. » READ MORE
Wednesday Night Upholstery: New Girls in Town
By ModHomeEcTeacher
There are three new girls in Upholsteryville and they mean business. Janet (another Janet) learned how to make welt cord in about 5 minutes and is already putting together two boxed and corded cushion covers to be stuffed fluffily and placed on her cane back chairs. » READ MORE
Pillow Talk: Harvesting Plaid Fabric
By ModHomeEcTeacher
Day 3 of Pillow Talk over on my blog has lots of step by step photos showing you how to "harvest" fabric from a Goodwill garment to use for pillows, trim or anything else you can think of.
Curbly Recession Busters: How To Spruce Up Your Own Digs For The Holidays
By ModHomeEcTeacher 
It's the time of year you turn a critical eye to the interior to see what needs to be spruced up. Preparing for a packed house on Thanksgiving is a sure fire motivator to plow through a To Do list in record time.
This year you may want to rethink the outlay of money to get the house looking top notch. You can save loads of dough by doing most jobs yourself. If, for some unknown reason, you don't really know how to do some of thes » READ MORE
DIY ModUpholstery: Mock Tufting
By ModHomeEcTeacher
The problem at hand was those annoying, yet luxurious, down-filled back cushions. Everytime anyone would get up from the loveseat, the back cushions were smashed down, seams all askew. My compulsive self had to walk over, re-fluff, straighten and then I could move on.
Don't the best solutions just come to you in the simplest of ideas??
My first thought was to make some covered buttons and pull those through the cushions to give a mod » READ MORE
How To Turn an Ugly Coffee Table Into an Upholstered Bench
By ModHomeEcTeacher
What do you do with an old coffee table with a dinged up or stained top? Turn it into a soft, lovely, upholstered bench for your hallway, end of your bed or as an upholstered ottoman in front of the sofa. This pine bench was $13.99 at Goodwill (a little overpriced in my opinion). With some fresh new fabric, supplies and these simple instructions, it morphed into a different creature.
FIND A TABLE AND LET'S GET STARTED!
