This was a project I did while hanging out with Destinee all day (:
We ended up making this chest that looks super cute in my room AND stores all of my craft supplies!
We found this crappy red looking chest at goodwill, it was like ten bucks, I also bought the blue fabric and the lace fabric at goodwill. then i bought black paint from Fred Meyer. I had cushion foam at home so the total of the project ended up being around 20 bucks!
We started by painting the entire thing black. as you can see in the pic, the paint got a little chipped in the car ride back to my house. Next we took a piece ply wood and used a table saw to cut it down to the same size as the chest lid.
Next I placed the cushion foam on the plywood, and laid the blue fabric over it.
I then flipped the plywood upside down so the cushion and fabric were facing the floor and staple gunned the fabric to the back of the ply wood. Make sure to pull the fabric really tight so it wont be loose at all.
Next I laid the lace over it and stapled it to the back side of the plywood as well.
Make sure to staple the fabric down every couple inches so that it stays!
The very last step was to open the chest and screw the ply wood down to the lid of the chest from the inside.
The whole project took me one afternoon and I LOVE my new chest!
