Well, dear readers, I am overjoyed to present you with pictures of my ottoman. Yesterday evening, after a grueling 4.5 hours upholstering and batting(ing?), I, with the invaluable help of my sidekick Todd, affixed the final screws on the hinges and flipped it over to have a look:
I am pretty much beside myself with how great it came out. (For those just joining us on this post, I built the frame, cut and stained the legs, cut the foam, etc.) I sat and stared at it for a while last night, basking in the satisfaction of a project carefully planned and methodically completed. If you haven't seen some of my previous projects (pre-house) you're not aware of my tendency to rush through things and end up with a product that's more, shall we say, abstract, than actually functional.
Knowing that, I worked really hard to go slow and be careful, and it totally paid off. I think this is my best, most-purchased-looking piece yet! All told, materials were a little more than $70 (I had to buy a coupler to hook up the staple gun to the air compressor) and I estimate my time spent to be in the neighborhood of 15 to 20 hours. So while $400 still seems excessive to me (especially now that I proved my theory of "hey...I could build that") it does make sense, I guess.
Now, if only I could build something to clean the kitchen (for the third time in the course of this project)...
Here are a few more pictures:
Also, I love staple guns. What a brilliant invention.
