Once open, the boxes contained several pieces of wood, connectors, padding, and the leather covers. We started construction by making the couch arms. The ferrets watched carefully. Here is one of the arms, mid-construction:
Now both of the arms are together. (See them standing side by side?) Some of the padding is also visible in this photo. Here you can see Brian pounding in some of the connectors, which were used to securely anchor the screws:
So after the arms, we moved on to the seat. Each section of the loveseat was constructed individually (so 2 sections). Here you can see Brian attaching a front panel:
After each seat was made, they needed to be attached together. (They were attached before the actual seat panel was added.)
Once the seats were attached, we started adding the covers and padding. Not all areas of the couch are padded--mainly the parts you touch when sitting (tops of the arms, seat, back). Here Brian has attached the first piece of leather, to cover the very front panel. After covering the arms, we attached them as well. Each cushion got wrapped seperately...
And here is what we ended up with! It took a while, but in general, I like the result. It is nice to sit on--a good, firm bottom cushion, so you won't immediately fall asleep. I like to sit here to watch the ferrets.
7 comments:
Wow! That looks much more advanced than the Ikea furniture construction I'm used to.
If the law and archaeology gigs don't work out, you appear qualified to work at stores assemblying items such as bicycles and patio tables. I can picture the store's advertisements now: "Our furniture assemblers have advanced degrees in law and archaeology!"
poppa Sites
Yes we can!
Pretty impressive! Interesting how the kit has cut-out numbers on each piece rather than just painting on a number.
Dad H
great job, You could have fooled anybody into believing that it came all in one piece from the store. Mom
that's quite a project! How will you get it out of your apartment? Does it come back apart as easily (not that it was easy to put together :)
I don't think we would disassemble the piece as a whole. I would worry that removing the screws would strip, or begin to strip, the connectors and the couch would be less sturdy the second time we put it together.
The arms and each seat portion, however, are connected together with screws that feed into metal. So if the move required it, we could pretty easily take those pieces apart (and remove the leather and cushioning).
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