This week's accomplishment

This past week I had one thing that I had to get done....

...In October my husband, Rylan,  and I decided that we needed some seating for the basement.  He has a lot of friends over to jam and whatnot and they needed somewhere to sit afterward (drum stools are not at all comfortable).  My brother knew of someone who was selling their two couches and a chair and for cheap too.  We decided to check it out and after a short viewing Rylan decided to buy them.  I asked him, '"do you think they'll fit down the stairs?" and he replied, " oh yeah, no problem."  The day came for us to pick them up but Rylan was at work so my parents came along with me.  We got them home and my brother met us there to give us a hand.  We got them down the stairs but no matter what angle we tried it, they were either too wide or too long to turn the corner.  We probably brought the one couch up and down the stairs about 3 times readjusting it before giving it another go.  So yeah, Rylan was so wrong!!  Eventually my brother decided to get his saws-all and we were going to cut out the door frame to widen it.  At this point, are cheap basement couches were going to make us do a basement reno.... the only problem is that we really can't spend much on a basement reno right now and I didn't want a half finished door frame and dust everywhere.  Eventually I decided to leave the new/old couches upstairs in the living room and move our love seats downstairs.

Eww......

It was a hard decision because I we had two really nice brown leather love seats that looked great in our living room and we were replacing them with two 15 year old cloth couches that were pretty stained.  To combat this issue, I decided to recover them....myself.

Just under $200 later, I had two bolts of upholstery fabric and other supplies and away I went.  I researched how to make a slip cover from my old garage sale copy of "Readers Digest Complete Guide to Sewing" and decided to use the "unit method" for slip covering.  The first week we had the couches, I finished one of them, didn't really slipcover but sewed parts and stapled others.

The crappy thing about having two things to make is that once I made one, I have a hard time getting motivated to do the other and the couches were no exception.

Finally, a little over a month later I made a goal that I had to get the other couch done by the end of this week that way the couches will look pretty and new for our Christmas parties we are planning on having.  In two days, I had the second couch done!!  I worked non stop and my fingers were so sore from hand stitching and sewing and cutting and stapling but it's done and for under $400 we have two amazing looking "new" couches, and a chair that's downstairs and not recovered yet.  I have enough fabric left to do it but I think that will be an after Christmas project....

My pride and joy!