Haus of Kendi: The ottoman (finally) lives!

We started a project about a year ago to build a new ottoman for the living room. We had been using a small leather-like ottoman from Target that was really small and didn't exactly work with our couches. Mandi had a great idea to use a pallet to build our own ottoman. Sadly, pallets aren't as easy to work with as Pinterest would make you think. The first problem with the pallet showed itself when I tried to reinforce the corners so I could attach the legs. Let's just say the neighbors heard lots of swearing from me that day. The bigger problem was the shape of the pallet. It wasn't square and it was just long enough that we would have to sew together two pieces of fabric to cover it. We decided to scrap the pallet idea and start from scratch. The new frame is a box made from 2x6s with a cross piece from one of the pallets. After we built the box we added some plywood, some 2" foam, some cotton batting, and the fabric. And then it sat. And sat some more. We didn't have any legs for it. When we finally found some legs at the Scott Antique Market we didn't know how to attach them. The legs had a piece on top that is meant to be attached to the inside of the box, but our corner was too thick and the leg would be inset too far. So the legless ottoman and the unattached legs sat there. I had an idea about how to attach the legs, but I was worried it wouldn't work and I would ruin the legs in the process. Basically the plan was to cut off the piece on top and then attach a new piece inside the corner part of the leg that would attach to the ottoman (see picture below). To make an already long story short, I finally bit the bullet yesterday and went to work on modifying the legs and attaching them to the ottoman. I was pretty excited that it went as planned. And then I stood the ottoman on its new legs and put it by the couches. My heart sank. Even though we measured and thought we knew how tall we wanted it to be, we were wrong. It ended up being taller than the couch so when you put your feet on it they are actually elevated. So now we're back to the drawing board for the legs. But it looks nice.