How to Make Slip Cover for Bean Bag Chair Need some inexpensive moveable seating for guests when you entertain? Here's an easy solution: slipcovers for cheap beanbag chairs. Buy them during back-to-college sales and cover them with fabric that matches your decor. Bean bag chairs can be an awesome way to add additional flex seating to a room. Unfortunately, the cute patterned ones always cost a ton! We purchased inexpensive (and ugly) bean bag chairs and made our own fun, slipcovers using awesome fabric from the clearance aisle. To make your slipcovers extra durable, consider using a serger rather than a sewing machine. If you're using a sewing machine, make sure to carefully measure your seam allowances, making them even on all sides of the fabric, so that the pieces fit together. Here's what you'll need: home decor weight fabric sewing machine or serger 1. Measure your bean bags and determine the length and width of each side and the top and bottom.
Add an inch to each of your measurments for looseness and seam allowances You'll need to cut a rectangle of fabric for four sides, and two squares - one for the top and one bottom piece. 2. Mark your side panels 1,2,3 and 4. With right sides together, sew the side of panel 1 to the side of panel 2 with a half inch seam allowance. Repeat this, sewing panel 3 to panel 2, and then panel 4 to panel 3. You should have a long line of panels that would wrap around your bean bag chair (don't sew them in a circle just yet). 3. With right sides together, sew one side of the top panel to one open side of panel 2. Repeat with bottom panel on the opposite open side of panel 2. 3. Repeat this process, sewing the top and bottom panel to panel 3 and then panel 4. 4. Then, sew the bottom panel to the bottom of panel 4. 5. Turn the slipcover inside out and insert your bean bag. 6. To make the slipcover removable, cut a strip of velcro the length of the remaining seam. Sew the velcro to the inside of the top panel, folding the edge of the fabric over just slightlyto make a clean hem.
Sew the other side of the fabric to the remaining open side panel. Connect the velcro to close your slipcover. 7. To make a non-removable slip cover, fold the edges of the seams in and hand stitch the seam closed. Photos: DIY Concrete Table Before and After Photos: Small Galley Kitchen Hair Botox: Before and After Photos Behind-the-Scenes Photos: Pirate-Themed Room Photos: DIY Faux Crown Molding 70s Basement to Man Cave kacama recycle bottle caps into the P.P. capsule beanbag chairall images courtesy of kacama specialists in reusing post-consumer waste materials, hong kong-based design agency kacama have created the ‘P.P. capsule’, a flexible beanbag chair. each piece is made from up-cycling 4,000 plastic caps that are then wrapped in eco-friendly fabrics produced by local seamstresses under the ‘neighbor plus workshop program’ to create both an environmentally and socially responsible product. most recycling companies require for bottle caps to be removed prior to the waste being discarded.
the transforming of the post-consumer PET bottles and post industrial waste material into a new item is an important initiative as the recycled polymer requires less energy to produce than virgin polyester – making it a sustainable option for outwear fiber production. each chair is made from up-cycling 4,000 plastic caps and wrapped in eco-friendly fabrics the recycled polymer requires less energy to produce than virgin polyester the series is available in a range of different colors the P.P. capsule transforms post-consumer PET bottles and post industrial waste material into a new item P.P. capsule is a flexible beanbag chair for living rooms material diagram showing the creation of P.P. capsule designboom has received this project from our ‘DIY submissions‘ feature, where we welcome our readers to submit their own work for publication. see more project submissions from our readers here.When your office was furnished, did the shopping list go something like this:
You know – the usual stuff. I’m not going to claim that a fancy desk or a weird chair is going to magically improve your creativity and productivity – but I am damn sure, that all that sameness and eternal corporate grayness, does nothing good for your ability to come up with great new ideas. Here are some ways to spruce up a workplace that may actually inject some color and fun into your work environment. The Milk desk is a new design to match your Apple gear with it’s white surface and rounded edges. It lowers and raises electrically, it has ways to hide the cable clutter, and it also has four compartments at one end that can be configured for storage, trash or, yes, as an aquarium. is a great way to flexibly partition a room. It’s made of paper with a felt core, and I love it because it doesn’t eat all the light in the room (if you go for the white one). It can be twisted into just about any shape or rolled up when you don’t need it and it dampens sound more than most room partitioners.
Plus it looks amazing! Or how about a desk made from the wing of a DC3 plane? The starting point for the Haag Capisco is just your average, garden-variety office chair – but they’ve moved on from there. The saddle seat gives you a more erect posture and doesn’t cut of the blood flow to your legs. The seat and back are constructed so you can sit sideways or reversed on it and still support your arms. And the whole thing tilts back into a very comfortable reclined position. I’ve had one of these myself – they rock. Bean bags look great and can be used in a million different positions. Four bags and a coffee table and you have a great meeting room! I’m partial to the the (pictured above) myself. Disclosure: They once sent me a free one to review here on the blog. Where do you keep all your reference manuals and handbooks? Close to where you can sit and read them, of course! I don’t know what it is, but I like it. Since I first saw these, I’ve wanted one and only the huge price tag has kept from picking one up.
It looks strange, but is actually supremely comfortable and allows you to sit/lie in many positions. I know, I’ve spent quite some time in a showroom testing one thoroughly :o) When your business is innovation, your office can’t really look like any other corporate wasteland. London-based innovation agency ?know that – as evidenced by e.g. the life-sized plastic cow statue painted like Spiderman in the lobby and the big red couch/bed they use for meetings: This has got to be the coolest idea in a long time. 7 people pedal along, one of them steers. It’s the and I want one!! I also mentioned this in my post on . I was sitting in my usual caf� writing this blogpost when I spotted a lady at the next table looking through some pictures of weird and beautiful desks. Of course I had to ask her what the story was. Turns out she’s Marie Westh, an artist and these are one-off tables she created, first for exhibitions and then later on as usable art pieces. with many more weird and fantastic creations.
This is more a metaphor than a piece of furniture – but it’s pretty cool all the same. The idea is that three people can have a meeting where they must work together to hold their balance during the meeting. Like we must each contribute to a conversation, to make it balanced. Impractical – but cool! . Or how about an entire wall covered in cordwood? Not only is it amazingly beautiful, it’s also great for the acoustics and it gives the wall a great texture. I saw my friends at and their roommates build this from a huge stack of cord woodon the floor to the finished wall. So is it the furniture that determines whether a company is creative and fun or staid and boring? But the type and variety of furniture does reflect the mood at the company. If you have row upon row of identical, gray desks and chairs then odds are this is not the place wild ideas are born. And why exactly is it that everyone must have the same desk and chair? Why not let people choose for themselves, and give them a chance to create an environment that suits them.