Summer and Sooners

We are now loyal OU Sooners. Prior to school starting in August we completed many summer projects. John built a deck for my dad, helped me recover our couches. My brilliant idea to save a little money. Man I got myself into more than I thought of. John is quite the handy man and needed very little of my help with his deck project. I helped lay some decking, but all in all he did most of it by himself with the supervision and direction of my sister Samantha ha ha.

So when we decided that we didn't like our free red couches that John's sister gave us, I decided it would be a brilliant idea to recover the old couches. I of course have never recovered anything prior to this project. Fortunately John's wonder mother helped out. I will say the deconstruction of the couches was much more fun than putting them back together. It took John, his dad, mom, and myself to put the couches back together. The "big couch" took us four hours to put back together. We have yet to finish the love seat. It was a difficult but rewarding experience.

The beginning of the deconstruction

The inside of a couch

All the old fabric off

A glimpse of the "new couch"

About two hours in

Trying to get the arms to fit on right

AHHHHH the finished product (notice it is now dark outside)

Since the recovering of our couch we have enjoyed it thoroughly, and we have received many compliments. This was a fun project. I would have not been able to complete it without the help of my wonderful mother-in-law. She sewed the pieces together for me. She is a much more talented seamstress than I am. I love our new couches and I love that I got two basically "new" couches for less than it would have cost to buy newer. I wouldn't be afraid to tackle other projects just not in the near future.