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Stuffing a Cushion Cover

Little House - Long Cushions

The Metropolitan Museum of Art regularly posts short audio/visual tours from their collection and this one on Frank Lloyd Wright's living room of the Little House features a few views of a pair of wonderfully long, long window seats bookended by perfectly proportioned bolsters.

These pictures make a strong case for making one long cushion for a window or bench seat instead of breaking the space up with 2 or 3 (or more!) cushions.  

It's graphically bold and comes with the added benefit of allowing the user to lie anywhere they want without encountering a break from one cushion to the next. 

An interesting choice was made to have the cushions come up short in width to allow the bolster to rest inside the space between the cushion and the wall.  

The Front Door Makeover - Smallworks Moves In

Woodworker extraordinaire Andrew Berg's company Smallworks recently moved into our building.  He frames art, he builds out stores, he didn't invent the lightbulb, but he built for it the coolest stand.  

We called in New Bohemia Signs to add Smallworks name to our front door.  Hand painted in an afternoon, our snappy sign soon announced the newest tenant of 3320 18th Street.

Fun Window Seat with Pillows by Ida Lauren Designs

The covers for this beautiful window seat were sewn by Lauren of Ida Lauren Designs.  Cushion Works made the cushion and pillow forms that are inside of the covers.

Construction Notes:  

The pillow covers have a strong graphic pattern and were cut straight to allow for Lauren's great pattern matching at the seams.  

The seat cushion's thickness was sized to fit snugly underneath the window trims.  We used a firm foam core with a polyester wrap on top and bottom which makes the cushion reversible.

Giant Bolster

Found! Girl in Box of Cluster Fiber

We hope that she didn't end up in a pillow!

(Thank You Audrey & Catlin)