How to make your own stylish and inexpensive ottoman

In the interior are many pieces of furniture, without which you can do at first glance. But they give the comfort of an apartment or private home, even the same room looks different, if it has only bed and a wardrobe, and if it is filled with several additional furniture accessories: stool, chest, mirror-mirror and others.

Such items include furniture and pouf. It is quite small and light, but its usability is hard to overestimate. Due to its small size it is practically not interfere in small rooms, and in the design of large spaces does not draw attention to itself, but is a striking accent. Poof due to the geometrical shape of a ball, a cylinder or a cube is easy to clean out of sight, slide under the table to hide in a cupboard or put to balcony.

During the spontaneous reception guests seated ottomans for a coffee table for different games, tea and conversation - a low ottoman emphasizes informal communication and the proximity of its members. On the ottoman can be put tired legs, sit down in the hall, take off your shoes, get up, to reach the mezzanine. In short, the ratio of occupied space and associated benefits does poof welcome element of almost any interior.

But what if the purchase pouf can not accommodate the family budget? Or maybe you just do not find among the options in the store that you would really like. In the end, you can find a creative mood, and it's about time to make a stylish ottoman their own hands.

Key details

Any ottoman in essence quite simple. Most of the subject furniture models are monolithic, ie do not have legs, their body and a seat. Therefore, neither of which would have been made ottoman, at least on the one hand it should be soft to sit on it was comfortable. How does the king suite and ottoman - is what it is sheathed.

Fabric with interesting pattern or textured synthetic leather can offset irregular shape, and clumsy hand stitches. Therefore, almost any model homemade pouf need furniture foam, tight sintepon or materials that can replace them. Upholstery can act dense texture, imitation leather or other dense material.

Ottoman from plastic bottles - step by step guide

The basis of a simple and cheap padded stools can be waste. For example, plastic bottles. They must be the same size. Best of all two-liter, as their height is well suited for low seat. Shape of the product can be given as a circular or square, depending on how you group the bottles.

Step 1. Each rack is made of two bottles. One whole bottle, the neck is cut off in the second, with the walls and the bottom is worn on the whole bottle. This makes the construction stronger.

Step 2. The required number of bottles tightly with tape is wound in a circle or square. The more tape, the better. The top and bottom of the bottle can be closed with a cardboard to form.

Step 3. The resulting bottle cage wrapped with foam, the seat foam is put in several layers, and then wrapped in a pouch and sutured. Can be used as a cover old burlap bag, pulling it tight on the workpiece.

Ottoman on legs

All that is needed - it is hacksaw, screwdriver and block of wood and square piece of plywood. Do from a bar two crosses, connect them one more segment. Put the two cross side, fasten the ends of the plywood. It turns likeness low stools. This model has legs, unlike the canonical pouf, but retains all the features of the classical model. All that is needed - it is attached to the seat foam rubber and sheathe cloth.

Solid soft poof

Its production is easy to give seamstresses. make the patternBoca made from a rectangular piece of crosslinked leatherette, Bottom - from the round cut, but the tip of beauty - on the principle of a cap, newsboy cap. Eight triangles sewn together and sew to the sidewalls. In the center of the hole to leave packing. Stuff can be anything, even old rags.