I Made a Sectional Sofa for Approximately $200.00

Wow! I can't believe how long it's been since I posted, you've probably all given up on me by now, but I think this project is definitely worth blogging about.

  I was looking for a small sectional for our little park model and couldn't find anything that worked. Everything in the stores is so big! I thought about maybe building one myself. Now I don't have my full accompaniment of tools down here so I am somewhat limited, although I could always go to the Wood shop here in the park. One day a lady put an ad out that she had a free, yes I said free queen sized memory foam mattress to give away. Lucky for me I was the first person to respond and it was all mine. So this is how it all began. 

Not only do we not have tools down here, but we also don't have a truck. The speed limit here in the park is 10 miles per hour so the guys didn't even bother to tie it down.

After thinking it over for a couple of days I got the butcher knife out and started slicing.  There were so many decisions to make along the way.

Since I had to bring all the wood home in the car, I figured out my cuts ahead of time and had Home Depot make as many of the cuts for me as I could. 

I built the bottom support and then went shopping for the fabric. Luckily there were a lot of sales due to black Friday.

I guess I forgot to take pictures of this part, I upholstered the seats using the old mattress cover and the new fabric. The picture below shows the set up for upholstering the back of the couch. I had to wait a week or two for the foam to be delivered, but I still had a lot of thinking to do so that was ok.

This is what it looked like after the back was attached. 

This is after I put the seat back on.

Here is the arm in progress, foam in place and batting stitched and stapled to hold it all together.

Ta da! We have arms! Oh the magic of the internet, it all looks so quick and easy!

Testing out the fit of the bed pillows.

Now to start the "over the top" part, stained glass! These parts are all built individually and will be pieced together later.

Here they are, after much deliberating and switching around, now how am I going to get that home? Luckily Johnny showed up right then and he carefully carried the board to the car and I slowly drove home, again that 10 miles per hour worked in my favour.

A little test fit.

Here it is, glued, temporarily tacked, and painted.

The foam was free, and so were the two mattress covers I used for most of the batting. The two little cushions were here when we bought the place. The upholstery fabric was on sale for $10/yard and was 100" wide, so I only needed 5 yards. The fabric for the pillows was part of a yard sale bundle that I paid $10 dollars for, so maybe that was $5.00. I purchased 4 pillows for $10 each. I paid $37.00 the first time I went to the lumber yard, and I needed another sheet of chipboard and some staples so I think it was around $25.00. I bought 3 sheets of white glass and used 2 1/2 so that was around $30.00, it cost something for the coloured glass although it was all leftover from other projects and of course the foil and solder weren't free so I'm just going to guess $10.00 for those. That totals $197.00.

It's comfy and I'm happy!

 Oh, and in case you are wondering, Johnny did not help me! I've been asked before if he helps me with my projects and pretty much "no". I did get help from the guy at Home Depot, but if I had the tools and a truck I wouldn't have needed him, but I'm glad they are willing to do that, it is a great service.