Make A Dog Bed With An Old Mattress - Tutorial

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.

Almost done! 😀

cross section of mattress dog bed — The inside of the mattress

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!