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What next, you ask? Cover the rest of the couch, of course, one bit at a time…
Notice anything different?
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The kids are at camp this week, which explains why there haven’t been any new photos of them. I’ve used the abundance of free time their absence provides to work on my couch recovering project.
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Result: one throw pillow. (Before you scoff, please note there’s a zipper on the back of that pillowcase. Hundreds of wee mice toiled for hours on that thing. Please give them a round of applause! They need all of the encouragement they can get.)
A family downstairs recently moved, and for some unfathomable reason…oh wait, they’re hideous, that’s why…they left behind their couches. On Saturday, Giulia (my landlady), Salvo (another neighbor) and I hauled these relics up one flight to my apartment. I am indebted to my neighbors for their charity, and as I am furniture-challenged, I’m lucky to have them, but my oh my.
The above photo does not do them justice. I have temporarily covered them with white sheets. Without the sheets they are far, far worse.
Fear not! These couches are lemons, but baby, I’m making lemonade. I went to Ikea yesterday, and bought yards and yards of dark blue fabric. I’m no seamstress, but I can drape with the best of them, and I own a glue gun!
Soon I’ll have those couches looking..well, probably only very slightly improved….but baby steps is what it’s all about.
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