Cdubb2010
Petty Officer 3rd Class
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- Apr 22, 2014
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So I just bought a Bristol 24 sailboat, if it wasn't freezing cold on Lake Erie, she could Ben sailed right now. But since it is nearly November I'm looking forward to the spring. Most pressing is the salon cushions or the lack there of. All the cushion are gone, so I plan on making new ones as cheaply as I can.
Disclaimer: What I'll be proposing below isn't the status quo on marine uplostery. This is a $300 dollar boat, I don't intend to spend $2-3000 dollars on cushions, I want something that will work and not break the bank. I am aware of the traditional methods and they are exorbitantly too expensive for my tatstes, the foam especially.
Now that we have that out of the way, I stumbled across a blog post about making cheap cushions (raw link at bottom). To sum up for those who don't follow the link, they used egg crate foam, aka mattress topper foam, about 3" thick the covered it in fabric in a traditional way, the foam it's self lasted 7 years and was reportedly comfortable. My thoughts are this, I can get a 3" thick California king sized egg crate topper for 44 dollars at Wally World, this would do the V berth plus some of the dinette, I'll pick up a double sized one for like $25 and finish off the dinette and quarter berth then use some kind of respectable fabric.
What do those of you who've been there and done that think of this? Is this suitable? Bear in mind this isn't a liveaboard (yet lol) but I hope it will see moderate use. The other idea I had I wanted to run past you all is making the cushion covers like a pillow case or with a elastic band. Upholstery isn't exactly something I foresaw myself ever doing, but here I am, this way I feel like would be easier for a newbie like me to do and would be more forgiving to mistakes. Thoughts?
http://www.microcruising.com/new2.htm
Disclaimer: What I'll be proposing below isn't the status quo on marine uplostery. This is a $300 dollar boat, I don't intend to spend $2-3000 dollars on cushions, I want something that will work and not break the bank. I am aware of the traditional methods and they are exorbitantly too expensive for my tatstes, the foam especially.
Now that we have that out of the way, I stumbled across a blog post about making cheap cushions (raw link at bottom). To sum up for those who don't follow the link, they used egg crate foam, aka mattress topper foam, about 3" thick the covered it in fabric in a traditional way, the foam it's self lasted 7 years and was reportedly comfortable. My thoughts are this, I can get a 3" thick California king sized egg crate topper for 44 dollars at Wally World, this would do the V berth plus some of the dinette, I'll pick up a double sized one for like $25 and finish off the dinette and quarter berth then use some kind of respectable fabric.
What do those of you who've been there and done that think of this? Is this suitable? Bear in mind this isn't a liveaboard (yet lol) but I hope it will see moderate use. The other idea I had I wanted to run past you all is making the cushion covers like a pillow case or with a elastic band. Upholstery isn't exactly something I foresaw myself ever doing, but here I am, this way I feel like would be easier for a newbie like me to do and would be more forgiving to mistakes. Thoughts?
http://www.microcruising.com/new2.htm
