How to Customize a Storkcraft Glider & Ottoman

Remove the cushions from the ottoman and the glider and set them aside. Sand all exposed wood surfaces, removing the finish and preparing the furniture for paint. Wipe any dust away with your cloth.

Tape off any metal parts or other non-wood mechanisms. Cover the wood with primer, priming wider wood surfaces with the larger brush and in crevices with the smaller brush. Clean your brushes, and then use them to paint. Allow the paint to dry before adding a second coat of paint. Allow your second coat to dry before proceeding.

Spray the front of your stencil with adhesive, and then attach it to the areas you want to customize with animals, letters or other images; the top center of the front or back of the glider's chair back is an obvious choice.

Apply paint evenly over the stencil, painting in one direction. Peel back the stencil before the paint dries. Peel a little from every direction to keep your work even. Repeat for additional stencil work.

Rip apart the seams of the glider and ottoman cushions using your seam ripper. Set aside the cushions inside them. Mark the pieces in a way that you know from where they were removed.

Lay out your fabric with the outer side down. Place the pieces of fabric you removed over the new fabric, spread out; you'll use these pieces as templates. Trace around the pieces.

Cut out your new fabric pieces. Using the markings you made earlier on the templates as a guide, arrange your new fabric pieces by which cushion they will cover.

Pin your fabric pieces together in the configuration you just determined; pin them together with a quarter-inch seam and with the inside showing; leave a side on each pinned cover open. Sew the pieces together along their seams, removing pins as you sew, and leaving that same side on each cushion cover open.

Insert the cushions you set aside into the appropriate cover through the opening you left in each cover. Turn in the opened edges and pin them down, and then sew the cushion covers closed along these edges, removing pins as you go.

Heat your hot-glue gun and insert a stick of glue. Attach welting, trim, fringe or pom-poms along the edges of your cushions to further customize the cushions.

Allow the paint on the wood to dry before replacing your recovered cushions to complete the project.