So long, Saved By The Bell high chair!

So, right about the time that my bitty boy was old enough to need a high chair, one of my old neighbors called me up and asked if I wanted their old one, since they had gotten a booster-style seat instead.

Heck yes! I LOVE FREE STUFF! Thanks neighbor! We were so grateful to get this high chair for free, and I really do like it; it works great!

But, let's just say it didn't exactly go with the decor. And never would, unless I decided to move to the set of Saved By The Bell.

See what I mean? Like I said, wonderful chair, so grateful to have it, it just needed a little bit of love! I couldn't resist using a before picture with my adorable little pea-covered boy in it! Feel free to tell me that he's the cutest baby you've ever seen. I'll readily agree with you!

So shortly after I got the high chair, I found a little remnant of neutral vinyl (like the kind you make a table cloth out of...) at JoAnn for a couple of dollars. I can't remember how much it cost exactly, except that it was cheap. It's been several months since I bought it, but this weekend I finally got around to recovering my Saved By The Bell high chair!

I was so excited to get it done (before Bitty needed to eat lunch in his chair :) that I forgot to take pictures until I was more than halfway done. But here's what I did:

1. Cut the old vinyl off of the seat, and trace around the foam onto the backside of the new fabric. (You can see the green pen marks where I traced mine in one of the pictures.) Cut out around the traced shape, leaving some space for a seam allowance.

2. Sew together your front and back pieces, leaving the bottom open, so you can stuff the cushion into it.

At this point I wasn't sure what I should do...Should I hand stitch it closed? Somehow finagle sewing it shut with my sewing machine? Then Bitty woke up from his nap, and wanted lunch, so I needed to finish it quickly (and yes, I was also just lazy :), so...

3. Hot glue the opening shut.

I did it sort of present-style, folding in the part from the front, so that it would be nice and smooth in all the right places on the front, and then folded over the back pieces so it would look finished, and glued that down as well.


This is essentially what it looked like when it was finished. This picture was actually taken before I glued it, so it actually looked better than this, because I made sure the fabric was pulled nice and tight and smooth.

4. Screw the cushion back onto the high chair, and feed your baby lunch!

TaDa! Don't you think it's quite an improvement?! It did end up that my remnant was only enough to cover this top cushion, so I'm actually going to have to go back to the store and find some vinyl to cover the seat cushion with. Oh well! I think it's great so far!

P.S. Do you just LOVE my vertical blinds?! Hahaha...I didn't think so. I'm planning a cornice board and curtains to cover that up, so be sure to watch for that post. It'll probably be a couple of weeks or so before that happens, but I should have a few other fun projects to post in the meantime, so keep checking back!

Check Metamorphosis Monday (button above) at Between Naps on the Porch, Trash to Treasure Tuesday at Reinvented and DIY Day at A Soft Place to Land!