Make your dog happy and turn your old mattress into a dog bed instead of throwing it away! Making a mattress dog bed is easy, cheap and eco-friendly! Your dog will love this cozy dog bed! 😀
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Make A Dog Bed With An Old Mattress – Tutorial
You’ll need:
- old foam mattress
- scissors (or utility knife)
- tape measure
- needle and thread
- some scrap fabric
Tip
Turning a mattress into a dog bed is easy and fast, but messy! 😉 Until now I’ve just used old foam mattresses. I don’t think it works with an innerspring mattress; and a natural latex mattress might be difficult to cut.
Step 1
Decide how you want to cut your mattress: Usually I make three dog beds out of one 100x200cm mattress for a German shepherd dog. So the finished dog bed is 60-70cm x 100cm.
Step 2
Cut across the mattress cover in a straight line.
Step 3
Now comes the messy part! 😉 There’ll soon be small pieces of foam all over your floor. Follow the line and cut through the mattress with a utility knife or scissors. I find scissors work better. It doesn’t matter that the cross section of the mattress isn’t even.
Step 4
Grab a scrap strip of fabric to cover the raw edge of the mattress. Attach the fabric strip with large slanting stitches to the mattress cover. It doesn’t have to be pretty: the fabric is there to encase the foam, so that there aren’t tiny foam pieces all over your floor every time you change the outer mattress cover.
Step 5
Now all there’s left to do is to sew an outer mattress cover – or simply wrap fabric or a dog blanket around the mattress. And the DIY mattress dog bed is finished!
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