How To Make A Bay Window Bench Seat Cushion

Foam can be purchased at most fabric stores.

How to make a bay window bench seat cushion.

Tuck the corners in neatly hospital corners and put a couple staples at each corner. Then staple the middle of each side keeping the fabric tight really tight i didn t do this well enough. You don t want to have to use more than one piece of foam. I used a electric meat carver to cut my foam.

The unfinished wood frames around the window seat make it more interesting and bring a rustic vibe to it. Purchase the plywood at your local home improvement store and ask them to cut it the size of your bench top. The window seat in need of a cushion was a long bench in the curved opening of a bay window. To get the best fit we decided to make one extra long bay window seat cushion with angled sides to match the shape of the bench.

Lay the fabric over the cushion and make sure its straight. The window seat has a soft cushion several pillows storage under the cushion and a built in bookshelf. Align this crease to the center of the bay. The length of the bench and the width of the bench.

A built in bookshelf is a good choice if you have narrow space. How to make a window seat cushion. Fold the paper in half along the cushion width and crease it. Get a piece of foam that will serve as the inside of the cushion.

Tape the front of the paper. Double check to make sure it s looking good then staple around the rest of the cushion. Measure the width across the front of the bay opening and record this measurement as the cushion finished length. Measure the distance from.

Cut the foam to fit the dimensions of the bench. If you want to have two cushions then split the length in half. This will be the size of the finished cushion. You can have memory foam or just regular foam padding.

We used dura skrim pattern material to trace the shape of the bench to be sure we had the angles just right. There are two measurements that you will need.