Thursday, July 1, 2010

One of the scariest projects I've ever done

This particular baby project was oh-so-very scary to me. I'll be honest, I would have never been brave enough to attempt it if we could have afforded any other option. But we couldn't.

Our infant seat has been through 4 previous children and the cover was in horrible shape. Yes it was ugly, but I could have lived with that if I had to, but it had also started tearing in places. That I could not live with.

We thought about buying a new infant seat, but they are actually fairly pricey. Totally shocked my husband☺ Because he had been without work for a year, we just don't have the money to spend on a lot of new baby equipment.

So he told me to go ahead and try to re-cover the car seat we have. I spent between $12-$15 (fabric was on sale ☺) and a couple of days figuring it all out. Completely worth it to us.

I completely took apart the existing cover and then just put the new fabric right over the top. So the car seat has the exact same padding that it had originally. I re-used everything that I could including the frame on the hood and the plastic hooks to attach the cover to the seat.

I should have labeled pieces well as I took them off. It all seemed so logical until all I had were strangely shaped pieces staring up at me and then I had no clue how it had come apart. So if you attempt this, a word of advice is label, label, label! Maybe even take pictures as you take it apart.

Disclaimer: I know the re-covering of infant seats is a bit of a controversial subject with strong opinions on both sides. If you are thinking of re-covering a car seat do your research about warranties and safety and make your own decision. Please don't leave any negative comments about our personal decision. Okay??? Thanks.

17 comments:

  1. That is absolutely adorable! You did a wonderful job with it! Can't wait to meet your precious little bundle!

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  2. I think it looks AWESOME! I recovered our car seat (the big boy one) - with some cool construction fabric...

    ...you did a super job with it!

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  3. Beautiful! This inspires me to tackle re-covering the seat of the high chair I bought second hand. I've been putting a blanket in it before lying V down (it reclines, so I'm able to use it for her, even though she's not to the solid food stage), but I really ought to re-do the cover - and I will label all the pieces as I take it apart!

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  4. wow! cute, so impressed! I would never be able to do something like that...

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  5. It looks fabulous. I can imagine having all of those different shaped pieces spread about. Yikes!

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  6. Way to face your fear! I think it looks incredible!

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  7. wow what a brave move and it was so worth it. you could never find something to buy that is this cool!

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  8. Well done. I love the colors/fabrics you chose! Congrats on baby #5.

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  9. Wow, I love it!! It looks great!

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  10. This looks amazing, and what a soft place for a baby to spend time. And I bet baby #5 will spend a lot of time in the car! :-)

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  11. I wish I could do it to mine. The car seat has been through 3 of my kids and then lent to a friend for one of his tripplets. Now that I am having my 4th baby we need it back. I just don't have the time to do that much work, so we will just end up using an extremely worn car seat.

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  12. I think it looks gorgeous! What a great way to recycle a piece of equipment!

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  13. I did this in May of 2010, but had to have a pattern. You were brave to tackle this! It turned out lovely.

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  14. Glad to see I'm not the only one that has considered this. I bought a car seat for cheap from a friend of the family, but it is for my boy and has gray/pink leopard print all over it. Can't wait to find a fun fabric for my little man. I would have never thought to do one fabric on the sides and a different one in the middle, but now I think I will take that approach!

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