I’ve been living in this apartment for a year, and Sven-man and I finally got sick of sharing a twin mattress on the floor. So, we dragged the convertable futon frame into the bedroom and permanetly unfolded it into a bed. It is awesome, but now we’ve got a little problem.
We’ve got a mattress on our living room floor. When guests come over, they tend to look at us funny for having a bed in the living room. Plus, it’s the only place to sit in our living room, which isn’t very comfy nor very useful.
We’ve looked into buying a couch and scrapping the mattress, but there are no new couches for less than three hundred dollars. The most we could possibly spend is a hundred, and even that will be a strain. We’ve tried thrift store and garage sale couches, but they are all smelly and really really iredeemably ugly. It’s not like we need high fashion here, but our house really is pretty well decorated for a college student house and a Brady-bunch refugee sofa would really be out of place. Plus, we don’t have any acess to a large vehicle to haul a sofa to our house.
It seems like our best bet is to find some way to turn our mattress into a sofa-like object. It seems like it’d be pretty easy to raise it up on cinder blocks and plywood. But because the space for it goes along a window, we need some sort of back-rest. This space will be used mostly for guests and for curling up and reading. It doesn’t matter if it has a funky home made look to it (in fact, that’d be preferable) but we don’t have much money and we have no room for a really elaborate construction project. Does anyone have any ideas?