Follow me on Instagram, Facebook, and Pinterest for more creative inspiration!
this post contains affiliate links for your convenience. full disclosure here.
My son’s nursery was one of my favorite rooms in our first house. I found lots of beautiful (but super expensive) rockers or gliders online…but they were all out of budget. I picked up this outdated glider for $30 at a yard sale and changed it into something I loved:
The before might just look outdated and not awful, but take a closer look:
Ewww! It had definitely been loved and used for many years, but the chair itself was made out of wood, and it was in great condition!
Since I am such an amateur sewer, I knew I couldn’t truly recover the cushions, so I decided to fix it a little differently, and just used throw pillows!
The fabric on the top pillow is from IKEA (how cute is it??) and the brown fabric was from JoAnn Fabrics.
What you’ll need for this project:
- A glider/rocker
- Fabric of choice
- Staple gun (my favorite one – it’s also cheap!)
- Sewing machine (here’s a really basic & easy to use one)
I sewed a simple cover for both pillows – here’s an inexpensive, simple to use sewing machine for amateur sewers like me!
Then I stapled fabric onto the bottom of the ottoman to recover the piece like I did with my window seat cushion.
If you’re not a sewer at all, no worries! Just buy some pillows you like and place them in the appropriate places! So simple!
See the whole nursery here – and my daughter’s nursery in our fixer upper house here.
Like this post? You’ll also like:
3. Wooden shim wall art {how to paint a wood sign}
i love it and the colors too… I have a glider that i keep wanting to cover too.
The glider looks great! I am so very excited for you. You will likely spend so many precious hours on that glider with your little baby!
Thanks for the tutorial! I so need to redo the rocker that I bought when my kids were babies. I dried to wash and dry the pillows, and somehow partially melted the fabric! (I had no idea it couldn’t be put in the dryer…)
I love this! Looks great! Visiting from the Inspire Me blog hop! Feel free to also link this one up at our Red, White & BBQ Ladies Only Blog Share link party which is now live! 🙂
I was just wondering how I could update my standard beige glider and make it look happier!! This is such a great idea!!
Hi there Christina! So excited for you to welcome your little one!
A suggestion for your glider…consider padding the arms and adding some sort of pocket/holder on side of arm. You WILL spend a lot of time in that glider and your arms are going to fatigue from holding the baby with your arms resting on the wooden chair arms.