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This cheap folding stool from Amazon<\/a> was for my craft room. It just needed a little love. i.e. paint and material plus a wood circle to make it tad higher. I also added the feature of making the fabric top removable in case I want to change the color at some point. A little Velcro did the trick! This type of thing is what I refer to as a “Buff Your Stuff<\/a>” item, meaning to take something you already have and give it a facelift. It can be something old or in this case something that needed changed.\u00a0 We’ve done a few chair makeovers but one of our most recent is where we took $2 Thrift Store Chairs and turned them into a Gorgeous DIY Bench Seat.<\/a> Definitely check that one out!<\/p>\n This is the stool as it comes straight from Amazon. However, I would have liked it to be an inch higher.<\/p>\n I unscrewed the thin padded top from the bottom portion. I purchased the fabric I could cover the top part with. Then I had Roy cut a circle out of 1″ wood. This would give me the added height I was looking for. Then I painted my stool white. I found that when I tried to cover the top portion of the seat the staples went through. So I purchased 1\/4″ staples for my gun. Well guess what? They went through too. Just how short of staples did this company use anyway?? I decided to pry one up and see. 1\/8th of an inch. I can’t even buy that short of a staple for my stapler. So I had to figure out how I was going to attach my fabric to the top part. I decided adding in a circle of foam board would give me the little bit extra that would be needed so the staples would not stick through the top. I would trim as I went. You have to be careful to avoid getting side wrinkles. This was my final seat top. I decided a couple of coats of Scotchgard wouldn’t hurt. You may have wondered why I didn’t just cover this also but it would not have looked good. Trust me. So I painted the side of my 1″ board. Then I used my drill\/screwdriver to attach the wood circle. It’s now ready for the top material section. I wanted the option to remove it should it get dirty over time or should I just want to change fabric at some point in the future so I decided to go with heavy duty velcro. The Velcro I had just happened to be sticky back. Otherwise I could have hot glued it in place. After attaching my Velcro and pulling off the backing piece I carefully pressed the seat in place. I was concerned if it would stick up on the edges but I don’t think that will be a problem, especially with being sat on regulary. This is my finished stool top. To fold it up you pull on the ring underneath the seat. It’s a nice feature as it can be stored in a closet when not in use. Before and after! \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This cheap folding stool from Amazon was for my craft room. It just needed a little love. i.e. paint and material plus a wood circle to make it tad higher. I also added the feature of making the fabric top removable in case I want to change the color at some point. A little Velcro […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29008,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1603,1623,1610,1611,1672],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1-blog","category-buff-your-stuff","category-crafts","category-diy-decor","category-furniture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craftyourhappiness.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craftyourhappiness.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craftyourhappiness.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craftyourhappiness.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craftyourhappiness.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28946"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craftyourhappiness.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34062,"href":"https:\/\/craftyourhappiness.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28946\/revisions\/34062"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craftyourhappiness.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craftyourhappiness.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craftyourhappiness.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craftyourhappiness.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Folding Chair Makeover Supplies<\/h1>\n
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I now had to attach my wood piece onto the metal base. Because the holes in the base were so large I just used some washers then regular screws.\u00a0 ![\"This](\"http:\/\/ourpeacefulplanet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Cheap-Folding-Stool-Made-Over-and-Higher-16.jpg\")
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