I also made sure I hadn’t covered any other screw holes in the upholstery process. Step 7: Covering my Staples There was no down side for me to doing it directly on the box top as this is a modern piece that I’m not in love with, so glueing and stapling it isn’t a huge risk. If you are working with a more vintage or antique piece, or something with sentimental value, you might want to consider a separate seat top. Step 2: Cut Foam to Size

Toy Box Cushion - Etsy UK

I am all about adding comfort to my life. One of the ways I like to do that is to add toy box seat cushions to my sons’ toy boxes (also know as blanket boxes!). My toy chest has a hinged lid which is why I’m not sure if I should be calling it a blanket box…but anyway we use it for toys. Step 1: Detach the Toy Box Lid The piece I started with was long but not wide enough for my seat top. So I held it up against the top and saw that my seat was two widths of my existing foam plus a bit extra.I cut a section off of my long cushion that fit the width of my seat top and then another idenetical. That got me almost there but I needed another thin strip to fill the top. So I held it up to the empty space and cut a strip that was slightly wider than what I thought I needed. You don’t strictly have to attach your foam to your box lid but I find it helps at the stapling process to know you don’t have to worry about the foam itself sliding around. The next step is the fun bit. Basically you want to lay your material on the floor right side down making sure to position it so that any specific pattern features or repeats are where you want them to appear on the cushion. I start with one staple in the centre of each long side – puling as taught as possible and folding under the raw edge before stapling it down. I have a set of easily printable instructions for this DIY Toy Box Seat Cushion at the end of this post – just scroll down! Toy BOX SEAT CUSHION – Materials Needed:

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The photo above is just showing how close to the edge you go with the strips – that’s just a little off cut one but generally you want to cut them as long as one side and get them as close to the edge as you can without them showing when you close the box. That hinged area is another reason why I choose such a thin fabric for the top instead of upholstery fabric. I want the top of my box to still close flat when I’m done! Step 5: Upholstering the Seat Cushion

I used warm & natural quilt batting – because I am also learning to quilt so I had it in the house anyway waiting for my next project. This blanket box/toy chest was given to me by a friend who doesn’t want it anymore. It has a kind of a laminate to it, which I don’t love, but it is just about the right colour for my son’s current room decor so I decided not to try to remove it or paint it. No doubt he will reek havoc on his toy box anyway so I might as well wait to paint it until he is a little bit older and then he can have a say on colours! I’m calling this process franken-foam….as in how to mash together several odd shapes of foam to make one piece that fits. I did want to re-use something else so as not to waste the nice batting but I couldn’t find anything else that would make a nice barrier between the blue foam and the white material so I relented in the end.