Tuesday 3 November 2009

A thing of beauty is a joy for ever

This is a tale of an ugly duckling-to-swan, caterpillar-to-butterfly style transformation.

Take one battered old sofa - an eBay bargain spotted and snapped up by the Boy's eagle eye and nimble mouse, and hauled home from deepest Hackney:



And - after many months of work* and a bit of posh fabric - et volia:



That battered old bedsit favourite becomes a thing of beauty and a joy for ever ...

Finally the sofa is revealed as a fifties Danish (we think) piece of gorgeousness, and a damn comfortable sit down too.

Welcome home, sofa.

* Work, obviously, not done by our own fair hands, but by the very talented Gabriel of Gabriel's Classic Upholstery, craftsman and neighbour.

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