The Couch

EDIT: if you’re here from a link party and want more details of what’s going on in this room, I just wrote a post about it here.


Yesterday Jared and I rearranged our furniture.


Now, before I begin, (ahem, Mom) I will be taking more pictures of our whole house… sometime… soon?  Yes, sometime soon.  You’ll get to see some of it, and in a future post I will explain where eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeverything came from.  But not today.  Today we’re just going to rock the couch.


Obviously, our couch is in our living room.  Our living room is also our dining room and our kitchen.  It’s just one long room.  Granted, there is a guest room that we could turn into a dining room, but that’d be… weird.  And I have other plans for that room. 


Anyway, you may recall our couch journey.  We got rid of Lenny/Lester and started brain storming for a new one.  It was super fun to put our heads together on this one.


We were leaning towards using pallets because we thought we could get them for free, but both of our dad’s gave us wood.  Between the two of them, Jared had exactly what he wanted.

 

Jared started assembling it a day or two after we moved.

Yesterday, after we finished rearranging the living/dining/kitchen room, I snagged some
pictures of the couch.  The sun was moodier than a woman yesterday so the exposure isn’t fantastic, but they’ll give you a feel for the beast.  And it will not stop me from giving you a grotesque amount of pictures.  Maahahahahaha.


(I feel like there should be some sort of drum roll.  Know that I am madly drum-rolling on my legs at this moment.)

That’s it, folks! 

It was a joint effort between Jared and me.  He did all the structural work and I handled all the textiles.  

And this is where The Ugly Chair sits.  And that’s our dining area.  (See… sneak peak!!)

 

The only thing I don’t like about the couch sitting against the wall (as opposed to in the middle of the living space) is that you can’t see the door, which makes me sort of sad.  But, the whole room is a lot more open this way.

 

The “cushion” is a mattress that I essentially slipcovered and used a ribbon closure.  I used five large square pillows to line the back of the couch, two regular bed pillows, one body pillow, and that little green and white goober that we already had.   I found a sweet burlap bag in my dad’s barn that I abducted, with permission, naturally.

The couch frame and the coffee table match pretty well, though the wood came from different states.  Neato, eh? 

So, that’s our couch!  Yeah, it’s a little like a daybed (probably a lot) but it works perfectly for long afternoons of studying, movie watching, reading, napping, sprawling, and lounging.  It’s really comfortable.   

And now… I need to pull dinner out of the oven before Jared eats me.  I’m afraid if I make him wait any longer that might be a very real possibility.  

 

 

Update: I’ve had several requests for my email address so more specific questions can be asked.  If you’d like to do that, shoot me an email at mmcdaniel@siu.edu.  Use it, don’t abuse it, y’all.

 

P.s.  I’ve never done this before, but I linked this up to Perfectly Imperfect’s Furniture Feature Link Party, Miss Mustard Seed’s Furniture Feature Friday and Freckled Laundry Textile Party.   Just for kicks.  And they’re my favorite.