Making your own seat cushions for your garden furniture

Making your own seat cushions for your garden furniture

We’ll show you how to make your garden bench comfortable – and with a completely individual look.

Making your own seat cushions for your garden furniture

This is what you’ll need:

  • fabric
  • a piece of hardboard the same width as the bench
  • a foam cushion and a piece of fleece of the same size
  • a hand tacker, e.g. Novus J-29 with A6 fine wire staples from Novus

And here’s how it’s done:

Place the materials on top of each other and cut the fabric generously.

Place the foam cushion, the fleece and the hardboard on the fabric and cut the fabric to size, leaving a fabric edge of approx. 5 cm on each side.

Making your own seat cushions for your garden furniture

Turn the fabric over.

Fold back the edges of the fabric. Make sure that the fabric is taut as you do so.

Making your own seat cushions for your garden furniture

Staple the fabric in place.

Use the hand tacker to attach the fabric to the edges all around the panel. The two long sides should be stapled first.

Making your own seat cushions for your garden furniture

Staple the elastics to the underside of the cushion.

On the underside, now staple the pieces of elastic in place right and left (approx. 10 cm from the edge). The elastics help to hold the cushion firmly in place on the bench.

Making your own seat cushions for your garden furniture

The elastics prevent the seat cushion from slipping off the bench.

The garden set is ready for your next match!

Making your own seat cushions for your garden furniture