Cedar Chest Project Continued

Here is the finished cedar chest!

This is how I did it...

The items I ordered arrived!

Fabric from JoAnn's

Drawer knobs from Home Depot

Quilt matting from JoAnn's

As you read in the first post I used a walnut for a quick fix of polishing dinks in the wood 

and I cleaned that cedar chest.

This looks pretty nice even without any decoration.

I removed these original knobs:

and replaced them with these:

The only issue I ran into was the length of the bolts for these knobs - they were too long for the cedar chest wood. I cut one shorter - DON'T DO THAT.

I eventually bought shorter ones from Lowe's and used some washers to screw the bolts in tightly.

I took the quilt matting and just folded to cover the original seat to add extra padding.

 I cut the fabric to fit over the original seat and matting 

with a few extra inches to fit around all the layers.

Using a staple gun, I stapled the fabric into the sides of the ply wood of the original seat. 

This was a tricky part since the ply wood is thin, but it had to be done.

If I had stapled the fabric from the underside of the seat, people would be puncturing their behinds. 

Luckily, the busy fabric hides the staples from being visible. 

Finally, I used an adhesive spray from Lowe's to glue the extra fabric down underneath the seat so flaps wouldn't be sticking out. 

Here's the final product again.

Mr. W and I love the texture and the accent it brings to our room.

And we enjoyed the fun little, inexpensive project.

What do you think?