gee, we've been lazy...

Its been a while. OK, ages.

We've used weather, family commitments, phases of the moon, global warming, anything to avoid the effort of finishing any of the (mumble too many mumble mumble) projects we have on the go.

But we met up with Dave (sculda) a few weeks back and got re-energised. He put us onto a supplier of paint-stripper that works oh-so-well! So we immediately started into it again. The outcome is the completion of Heidi, the hardback sofa.

Heidi came to us from west Auckland. No black t-shirt or ugg boots, but also not the best looking westie chick. Outrageous. We were fortunate.

Jos took ages to do the upholstery. It was a learning curve for sure. The fabric chosen came from modus100 on Trade Me. She sources some really cool stuff from around the place, and we bought a few metres of this stuff on spec.

So all the upholstery got done including new squabs, and then we stalled. It was only the arrival of the new paint stripper (sorry - not saying what that is!) that got us under way again.

OMG. Polystrippa, Coopers, and all the other products are just, well, bollocks compared to this stuff. Its quick, clean and leaves a great surface for us to refinish the timber.

Heidi loved it! We pulled her completely to pieces - the base frame down to components. Every piece was individually stripped, sanded, oiled and reassembled back to the base. The seat frame was not stripped since it as in excellent original condition.

So, anyway, here she is. Up on Trade Me in the next couple of days.