Tuesday 10 May 2016

Recycling a sofa...

It is great that people will actively give away stuff they don't need on Gumtree and Freecycle.

It is best not to see these things as what they were. So much more fun to pull them apart for their raw materials...

Here's the stuff you can reclaim from a sofa. This one was free if collected (Thanks, roofrack...)


I got it, because I wanted the leather for a stool I was making.

This stool...

Having got a very nice free sofa, here it is being scrapped in my front garden...

And from that, there was about 4-5 square metres of top quality leather...

...and also some big zips...

...and a whole load of bolts, washers, wingnuts and fixings...


...many metres of elasticated upholstery webbing...



...fluffy, upholstery padding...


...and not forgetting foam cushions...


..and even a few bits of hardwood...

All free - nice...

go get a sofa...

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