That One Piece: My Curbside Sofa
I lived in the dorms for the first two years of college. After finals week each spring, furniture would pile up on the side of the road and in giant dumpsters outside of the dorm buildings — the pieces that wouldn’t be making their way home with students for the summer. I was helping one […]
I lived in the dorms for the first two years of college. After finals week each spring, furniture would pile up on the side of the road and in giant dumpsters outside of the dorm buildings — the pieces that wouldn’t be making their way home with students for the summer. I was helping one of my friends move their boxes when I spotted an avocado green and gold floral print couch with a tufted back on the curb. Thanks to the early years of Design*Sponge, I was obsessed with thrifting mid-century and vintage pieces and this couch had the perfect lines in my eyes. Since I was moving into my first apartment a few months later and needed to furnish it with the little money I had, I convinced my parents to let me take it home. While the style of the sofa was beautiful to me, the upholstery wasn’t — and a 1970 couch that had lived in the dorms just felt due for new upholstery. I got an amazing deal on a bolt of upholstery fabric online (12 yards for $60!), bought this book and took a week off of work at the end of the summer and learned to reupholster it with my mother. We deconstructed the original upholstery and turned those pieces into patterns for th...
I lived in the dorms for the first two years of college. After finals week each spring, furniture would pile up on the side of the road and in giant dumpsters outside of the dorm buildings — the pieces that wouldn’t be making their way home with students for the summer. I was helping one of my friends move their boxes when I spotted an avocado green and gold floral print couch with a tufted back on the curb. Thanks to the early years of Design*Sponge, I was obsessed with thrifting mid-century and vintage pieces and this couch had the perfect lines in my eyes. Since I was moving into my first apartment a few months later and needed to furnish it with the little money I had, I convinced my parents to let me take it home. While the style of the sofa was beautiful to me, the upholstery wasn’t — and a 1970 couch that had lived in the dorms just felt due for new upholstery. I got an amazing deal on a bolt of upholstery fabric online (12 yards for $60!), bought this book and took a week off of work at the end of the summer and learned to reupholster it with my mother. We deconstructed the original upholstery and turned those pieces into patterns for th...
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