reupholstering: phase 1

last week, the night before trash day on mauricio's street, i fell in love. it was love seat sized, dark wood framed, lonely looking and sitting on the curb next to a pile of trash. it had a bit of fading from the sun, probably from sitting too close to a sunny window year after year. it didn't look outdated, or old, or worn. it wanted to come home with me. oooh, cute little love seat sofa.

we tried to shove it in my Rabbit. with the seats flat, you can fit a lot of stuff in there! but, alas, you can't fit a cute little love seat. unless you saw the cute little wooden legs off (nice idea, mauricio). but then how will it stand? a couple days later, we try to shove it in my father's car. a much bigger VW: the passat wagon. a wagon? you can fit anything in there! yeah right. although the opening was much larger, we just couldn't manage to fit it in. so, a week later and two tries later, i gave in and made a U-Haul reservation for Saturday morning. $35, 1/2 hour standing in line, 1/5 hours driving back in forth, 20 miles later... the love seat is parked safely in my garage.