Wrought Iron Plant Stand Transformation

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Turn that old metal porch decor into an adorable new seat or footstool! Let me show you this step by step Wrought Iron Plant Stand Transformation and you will be confident to transform one that you have, too! Make sure to check out our other Thrift Flips while you’re here!

Supplies needed for this project :

Old plant stand
Wooden round
Fabric of choice
Fiberfill
Cable clips
Screwdriver
Staple gun
Scissors
Hot glue

1. Cut a Wooden Round

We decided to turn this plant stand into a seat or footstool, so we needed a cushion. The first thing you need for that is a piece of wood for the backing. If you want this for a low profile seat, make sure you use at least a 1/2″ thick piece of wood. We used 1/2″ birch plywood that we had from another project. Since we needed a bit of an overhang, we traced about 1/2′ outside the circle with a pencil.

a metal plant stand sitting upside down on a piece of wood

Once our circle was drawn, we used a jigsaw to cut the circle out.

someone holding a piece of wood with a circle drawn onto it

After it was cut, I sanded the edges a bit to clean it up. If you don’t have access to power tools, you can always find wooden rounds at your local hardware store or craft stores.

JR from My Eclectic Treasures holding a piece of round wood up to show the camera

2. Make a Cushion

I found several really pretty fat quarters from the Dollar Tree recently, and this was the one we decided to use for our cushion.

Sorry for the quality of these next photos, they were screenshot from a live video. We started off by adding fiberfill to the top of the wooden circle with the help of hot glue to make it stay.

someone adding hot glue onto a piece of wood with fiberfill in the other hand and cloth under the wood round

We then flipped it over and sat it down into the middle of a fat quarter of fabric, wrong side up.

someone holding down a piece of wood on top of a piece of fabric in order to make a cushion

Next, we started stapling the fabric to the piece of wood. I was holding the fabric and my husband was doing the stapling, but you could definitely do this yourself. Just be careful with the staple gun. We did opposite sides first, then made our way around each curve until it was completely stapled all the way around.

two people working together to make a cushion

You will have a bit of an overhang of your fabric, and you can just use scissors to cut that extra away.

someone showing the back of a cushion in progress

This is what it should look like after you’re finished stapling. You can also add a piece of felt to finish the back like in this Christmas Footstool Project, but we decided not to in this case.

someone showing the back of a cushion that was just made

3. Attach the Cushion to the Plant Stand

Typically, we would just drill holes into the base or legs of a footstool to attach to a cushion, but this is wrought iron and drilling holes was not an option. So our solution were these EZ Cable Clips! These things are genius!

They fit snugly around the metal band and you screw them right into the back board of the cushion. We attached these clips in four places and that seemed efficient.

someone attaching a cushion to a metal stand using EZ Cable Clips and a screw driver

And that was it! Our foot stool or low profile seat was complete!

a wrought iron plant stand transformation by My Eclectic Treasures

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