We built a couch!

When we found out we were moving to Nebraska we decided to sell everything. We came out with a mattress and a 4x8 trailer towed behind our Chevy Cruz. 

Now we have the fun job of slowly replenishing our belongings on a student budget. One thing that was a big deal to us was our couch. We are kinda couch snobs. We had a long list of what we wanted in a couch: black or grey, seats 5, no pleather or suede. And it had to be small enough to fit in our tiny family room. Oh and it had to be a sectional.  We first went to check out the Nebraska furniture mart that everyone raves about and found a few couches we loved for anywhere between $700-$2500. A little steep for our budget. For 2 weeks we watched craigslist like a hawk. But everything was just old or smokey or overpriced. So after not having a couch for a month we decided to build one. After doing some research we discovered how hard that can actually be and how expensive the foam could get so we decided to rig it together a bit. We started with these two couches bought second hand for $30.

After ripping off the fabric we tore off the arms, built it a new back, and recovered it! (An overly simplified summary ha ha).

Starting to build the new L frame

Ready for foam!

We used every scrap we could of the previous foam. We got pretty desperate with the scraps towards the end ha ha.

Covered with batting to smooth everything out. It's finally looking like a couch!

Fabric going on. Thank goodness for a staple gun!

Things got kinda sketchy...

I am going to give Bradyn credit for 95% of this couch. He tore the thing apart and assembled and back with me pretty much as moral support ha ha We covered it together and I did sew the cushions so I deserve a little credit too. 

Final product! Our budget for a couch was $200 because that's what we sold our old one for. We spent $30 for the two couches, $5 for the quilt batting, and about $160 on the fabric coming out to just under $200!

As a side note...We also threw up some shelves with some of the free wood we got from somebody's deck. Woot woot we love free.