This is the loveseat that's been waiting 9 years for me to finish. I bought the quartersawn Japanese oak (nara) back in December of 2000, thinking I would make the loveseat "real quick," as soon as I let the wood acclimatize. But after making the bootbench as a practice piece in 2001, I got busy and never got around to building the actual loveseat. Fast forward to this summer. I suddenly realized I need to do a bunch of house repairs next year, and the oak was in the way, so this past August, I took an intensive 10 days or so and built the loveseat--at least the wood part.
The upholstery came later, since I had to do a bunch of shopping for parts, as well as learning how to sew so I could make the bolster cushion
. The seat upholstery was really pretty easy, just involved a lot of steps. But that cushion! That was a beast! In fact, I finished it just tonight. I had to learn how to sew in a zipper, and don't even ask how many times I had to rip out seams because I did something wrong--and that was even after practicing numerous times on some plain cloth I bought for just that purpose 
.
The dark wood is ebony, which I took from a Chinese low table that belonged to my late father-in-law. He bought the table in Taiwan many years back, but it was falling apart, and the family was about to chuck it, so I begged them to give it to me for use in projects like this.
The wood strip sandwiched in the armrests--and the wood for the dowel tenon-plugs as well--is teak.
(The upholstery material, by the way is a design called "Aztec Sage," and I purchased it from Great Southwest Furniture.)
A slide show of the building process, or parts of it, can be seen HERE.
The upholstery came later, since I had to do a bunch of shopping for parts, as well as learning how to sew so I could make the bolster cushion
. The seat upholstery was really pretty easy, just involved a lot of steps. But that cushion! That was a beast! In fact, I finished it just tonight. I had to learn how to sew in a zipper, and don't even ask how many times I had to rip out seams because I did something wrong--and that was even after practicing numerous times on some plain cloth I bought for just that purpose . The dark wood is ebony, which I took from a Chinese low table that belonged to my late father-in-law. He bought the table in Taiwan many years back, but it was falling apart, and the family was about to chuck it, so I begged them to give it to me for use in projects like this.
The wood strip sandwiched in the armrests--and the wood for the dowel tenon-plugs as well--is teak.
(The upholstery material, by the way is a design called "Aztec Sage," and I purchased it from Great Southwest Furniture.)
A slide show of the building process, or parts of it, can be seen HERE.
LCHIEN
Loring in Katy, TX USA
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