Another day of problem solving

Built a thing for a couch. Plus a nice picture of Molly on the couch at the end!

Athens, Greece. Do you know where you can get a couch fixed? The answer is in our living room. Molly, my GF, wanted to fix our couch. The stuffing and innards were the problem. The springs were removed. The ancient mummified stuffing was removed and we were left with a solid wood frame and nice fabric covering. I had a jig-saw, an impact drill, and copious amounts of Greek coffee. With wood supplied from a small lumber yard one street over, I got to work.

I cut out a bunch of supports longer than the couch legs.

The idea was to build a base, or pedestal if you will, to hold the couch and also keep a bunch of stuffing inside the cushions. I could have just cut a triangle but that would have been too easy.

Meet my new pet jig-saw. I call it Moose. Sometimes Moose sleeps at my feet.

Moose did OK. The blade was a bit thick for the delicate pattern I wanted to cut.

Normally This would be my establishing shot in the beginning.

You can see the couch guts are gone. This is midway through.

There it is. Painted black so as not to attract too much attention from passers by.

I also built some simple but effective shelves in a closet. Moose helped me with that too. I’ll spare you the picture of boring shelves because there was no Molly sitting on them to show them in their best light. I think Molly liked the couch the most. She had a matching robe and everything for it.

Molly making sure the couch works. Moose is sleeping in the closet with the new shelves.

Thanks for choking this letter down. I felt the need to share this process of me “adulting”. I really don’t have much experience with power tools, making pedestals, and stuffing couches… or pulling them apart for that matter. Once again I am out of my comfort zone of things. It was fun in that low key sort of way. If you do this unfamiliar task a little better than half-assed, you end up with something to sit on. If you do a really fantastic job, you build another pedestal, plop the first one on top of it and never sit on it because now it’s “art”.

I will have more drawings next week.