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DIY Modern Flair Dining Room Bench

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DIY Modern FLAIR DINING ROOM BENCH

 

Welcome to September’s Fab Furniture Flippin’ Contest™!  This month our sponsor is Spoonflower with a theme of Modern Flair!  This is my first time working with Spoonflower and I had so much fun picking out fabric. The selection is amazing with so many great prints and patterns to choose from. Do you know you can actually design your own print and turn it into fabric, wallpaper or gift wrap? This is something I plan to look into for the Holiday season.

Fab Furniture Flippin Contest September Spoonflower Our Crafty Mom

Today I am sharing my DIY dining room bench. The fabric I chose is perfect for the project I had in mind, as well as the theme of Modern Flair. My dining room is very narrow and I have a large dining table. This makes it a little difficult to move around, especially during the Holidays when company is over. For quite some time, I have been wanting to build a dining room bench for one side of the table for additional seating. The plan is to store the bench under the table when not in use, creating more room to move around. This bench really came together in no time. The original plan was to pick up 4 wooden legs at the Hardware store, or  have a 4×4 cut down, however, when I was at the thrift store I found this chair:

Modern Flair Dining Room Bench Our Crafty Mom

Now, the last thing I need is another chair, however, this baby was 50% off! For $3 I could get 4 beautiful spindle legs that would be perfect for my dining room bench. I will repurpose the top half for something down the road, as you never know when you will need half a chair 🙂

DIY MODERN FLAIR DINING ROOM BENCH OUR CRAFTY MOM

SUPPLIES

4 chair legs

3′ pine board for the seat.

wood screws

drill

2″ foam

staple gun

1 yard fabric

HOW TO BUILD A DINING ROOM BENCH

Paint the legs the color of your choice. While I wanted it to blend nicely with the dining room table, which has a weathered gray finish, I also wanted a modern flair for this bench. Therefore, I went with a gray base and used my favorite metallic silver paint to bump it up a notch. I have used this combination several times and just love it!

DIY MODERN FLAIR DINING ROOM BENCH OUR CRAFTY MOM

Next, use a staple gun to attach the fabric over the foam and 3′ board making sure it’s pulled taut and even. The legs were attached with wood screws. The great thing about repurposing is- not only the pride in the finished product- but also the amount of money you can save. I could never buy this bench for what it cost me to build it.

DIY MODERN FLAIR DINING ROOM BENCH OUR CRAFTY MOM

This dining room bench fits perfectly under my table, which makes it so much easier to move around the narrow dining room.

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DIY MODERN FLAIR DINING ROOM BENCH OUR CRAFTY MOM

The Fab Furniture Flippin’ Contest is open only to the entrants who have signed up through the group Facebook page. If you are an active, furniture flippin’ blogger, and you’d like to participate in future contests, we’d love to have you! Please contact us at [email protected] to find out how!

DIY DINING ROOM BENCH OUR CRAFTY MOM

 

Participants, by entering your project into The Fab Furniture Flippin’ Contest, you are giving the contest hosts, sponsors, and judges permission to share one photo, with a link/tag back to your blog, for the purpose of promoting the contest and announcing the winner/favorite picks on our blogs/websites and social media pages.

You can see all of the entries for the Fab Furniture Flippin’ Contest as they come in by visiting the hosts for this month:

58 Water Street

Thirty Eighth Street

 

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Thank you so much for visiting Our Crafty Mom! Have a great day!

 

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Sunday:
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Crystal

Thursday 3rd of November 2016

Love me a good furniture flip! :) #homemattersparty

ourcraftymom

Saturday 5th of November 2016

Thanks Crystal! Me too! ?

Sahana

Saturday 29th of October 2016

What a genius idea to use chair legs for building a bench. Looks great, Michelle.

Jamie

Thursday 27th of October 2016

That turned out beautifully!! What a great accent to an entryway. :) #HomeMattersParty

Amy @ My Life From Home

Monday 24th of October 2016

I love the fabric and the paint color! Great choices!

April R - UncookieCutter

Monday 24th of October 2016

Michelle, it turned out great! What an excellent selection and that fabric is awesome! Pinning!

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