Make bed cushions for the wall yourself
Anyone who likes to have breakfast in bed in the morning has certainly already made the experience that there is no bed cushion on the wall to lean against. With these instructions and a little skill, you have the opportunity to make a bed cushion for the wall yourself.
What you need:
- material
- Foam
- cord
- Decorative buttons
- Moldings
- hook
- yarn
- needle
- Screws
- Dowels
- sewing machine
- drilling machine
- Cordless screwdriver
Preparations for a bed cushion
- Plan how big you want the bed cushion for the wall to be. To do this, measure the length and width on the wall.
- Think about what fabric you want to use for the bed cushion on the wall. You can work tone on tone or create a splash of color on the wall.
- Choose a fabric for the bed cushion on the wall that won't wrinkle easily.
- Decide whether the bed cushions for the wall should only be hung or firmly mounted on the wall.
- Find out where to buy the material for the bed cushion on the wall. You can get it in fabric stores and other accessories in hardware stores.
- Make a sketch with the dimensions. This makes it easier to make the bed cushions for the wall.
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How to make a cushion for the wall
- If you want to make bed cushions for the wall to hang up, lay the fabric for the cushions with the right side on top of each other.
- Measure the length and width of the bed cushions for the wall and cut the fabric to size.
- Neaten the edges of the fabric for the bed cushions on the wall with a zigzag stitch to prevent them from fraying while washing.
- Sew three edges of the fabric together with a lock stitch and turn the pillowcases over.
- Fill the bed cushions for the wall with the cut foam and sew the fourth edge shut with a needle and thread.
- Sew the cords that you have put together in a loop to the top corners of the bed cushions for the wall.
- Hang the bed cushions on hooks that you have attached to the wall.
- If you want to mount the bed cushion firmly on the wall, cut the foam and fabric to the appropriate dimensions.
- Place the fabric on top of the foam and mark the puncture points for the decorative buttons that will structure the bed cushion on the wall.
- Thread a thread into the sewing needle and attach a decorative button to the end.
- Poke the needle through the fabric and foam and pull the thread into the bed cushion so that a hollow is made. Knot and glue the thread on the left side. Repeat the process until the bed cushion for the wall has a textured shape.
- Attach the foam to the wall with double-sided tape.
- Pin the edge of the fabric for the bed cushion to the wall with small nails. Make sure that a 1 cm seam has to protrude.
- Use a drill to drill small holes in the edge of the fabric and fill them with dowels.
- Saw out the decorative strips wood on fermentation, so that a frame for the bed cushions on the wall emerges from them.
- Attach the moldings by threading screws through the moldings into the holes filled with dowels.
- Make sure that the fabric for the bed cushions on the wall is completely covered by the moldings.
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