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For today’s post, I am sharing another “can this be saved” project, brought to you courtesy of the four dogzillas. It is possible that the cat monsters played a minor role, but to date, they are losing the epic dogs vs. cats battle being significantly out numbered in both weight and count.

If you have stopped by here before then, you may already know about our ratio of 3 to 1 furry four-legged creatures to humans. This, among other things, has led to humans not making extravagant purchases when it comes to home furnishings. For example, expensive leather couches and malicious clawing cats do not go well together.

In addition to our relatively inexpensive and excessively abused furniture, there is my penchant for fixing, mending, and salvaging the unsavable, coupled with a powerful reluctance to throw things away.

Which brings us to this little gem.

And if you think it looks terrible above. Then don’t look below.

I have saved this thing from its rightful place in the landfill on multiple occasions. Some of my repairs, including the duct tape phase, are perhaps regrettable, but the glued-on patches, the shabby recovering job, and the duct tape all did allow for the survival of this well-used and well-loved piece of furniture. And thanks to my questionable behavior mentioned above, it has finally received a proper repair. This restoration was also made possible by the hubby’s constant need for new and unblemished jeans and the fact that one of the many things that I have not been able to part with is our old foam mattress.

If you have ever priced pieces of foam, you can guess that buying replacement foam for this particular item would have cost more than it was worth even when it was brand spanking new.

But due to the availability mentioned above of foam and denim, I finally came up with a proper fix for this footstool.

The general plan was to tear the footstool down to the frame. Unfortunately, many staples were holding on the cover, so the two main tools that I used to remove the staples were a 5 in 1 putty tool and a pair of end-cutting pliers.

This footstool was assembled in two pieces, one frame piece with the legs and another framed piece with the cushion. Once the two pieces were taken apart, it was pretty easy to disassemble the top.

The picture above is one-quarter of our old queen-size mattress. You can see the mattress has three layers. The top layer is memory foam, and then there is a thin layer of foam and a thick layer of foam. The layers of foam are glued together but are fairly easy to separate.

I used the thick layer of foam for padding and then used several pairs of Jean’s to make the patchwork cover and an old sheet to replace the lining pieces.

All the fabric was reattached with a staple gun and many many staples. Popeye arms or lots of breaks are required.

The final step was to screw the two frame pieces back together.

The dogs seem to approve of the new footstool.

But of course, they aren’t all that discerning when it comes to places to lay their heads.

Alright, so maybe it’s just the one dog.

Anyway, while they may have liked the old version as much as the new version, they did show some concern during the deconstruction and reconstruction process.

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Happy Upcycling,

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