We’re DONE!

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So here’s the deal: We began this little adventure yesterday morning and made good headway on disassembling the couch–removing what seemed like 200 old stapes and upholstery nails. We removed all the old fabric to use as templates for the new fabric, replaced batting on the seat. Recovered the seat and cut out the the seat back. Yesterday we had to make a run to two fabric stores, so that ate up a lot of time.

We started our second day of recovering this morning by covering the seat back and the arms. It was tedious, as we had to be carefully to line by the pattern on the seat with the seat back. I’m extremely proud of the result and I know my Grandmother is looking down smiling tonight.

I discovered lots of little surprises–horse hair batting (it’s a 100 year old couch) and old flour bags used to hold the batting in place. It was quite ingenious in my opinion. My Grandmother reupholstered the couch with the pink fabric over 30 years ago. It’s a special piece of furniture, not only to me, but to my entire family.

I am also hoping to get the accent wall painted by Tuesday evening. I am sure I’ll post a final picture once the wall is done.

What do you all think of the new look?

So I pretty much slacked off today. I did get the whole lawn mowed, and then did a 33 mile ride this morning. Then it was pretty slack. I played a bunch of GTA III’s single player and goofed off on the computer while Amanda and my mom worked on the couch. That turned out really nice, and maybe Amanda will post about that.

Now the day’s fun commences though as I’m off to John’s bachelor party festivities. More on that tomorrow.