Living Room

The antique loveseat we had been given had very worn cushions. The tufted back was too difficult for me to tackle so I chose to recover the cushions. We found a soft green that picked up the green in the old fabric and coordinated with the rest of the decor. I recovered the cushions.

It felt boring so I took the fabric from the worn cushions, cut away the most worn portions and made new pillows. I found green corduroy in my stash for one side so I could get 4 pillows instead of only 2. One pillow is smaller because the old cushion was extremely worn. I also made two pillows from fabric I had left from recovering the larger sofa. Two pillows on the sofa are reclaimed pillows used in a previous apartment. They were bleached to remove the old dye and then stained with tea.

Steven had originally wanted to finish the doorway with wood trim. Instead he decided to use dry wall. There was already an arch in the opening to make it even better he created curves in each of the upper corners.

One day we decided to take a new route home and saw this sofa along the curb. We tried to get it into the car but it was too big. A man came out of the house and said he would deliver it for us. He also had a loveseat in the garage we could look at. We decided to take both. I didn’t like the fabric on the sofa so I looked at the upholstery fabric I had purchased from Goodwill and found a burgundy fabric that would work well on the sofa. The love seat cushions are well worn and will be recovered in the future.

I was looking at free items on Facebook Marketplace. It was on a Mahtomedi street. It had a proven handle and a damaged top. I used steel wool on the surface and then stained. I found a perfect drawer pull in our supplies. A beautiful piece of furniture for the living room.