We bought a sofa.

We've been looking for a sofa for our bedroom for a while. Which is to say, K has been looking for us for a while. Finally, a few weeks ago, she found one on the classifieds at work for $100. Right before the COVID pandemic became full-fledged, we drove across the mountains to pick it up from the guy selling it. It was strange and awesome to drive through Bellevue on a Friday evening with absolutely zero traffic! The guy was moving. His loss, our gain.

That actually isn't the whole sofa. It's this modular thing, loosely called a Sofa-In-A-Box. I had no idea there was such a thing. Kind of cool, though, because an entire sofa fit in our little RAV4.

Along with a bunch of other stuff. Anyway, we decided to go with a loveseat for our bedroom, and put the other 'section' as a chair in K's craft room. Granted, it doesn't have any arms for now…

It's pretty clever how it goes together. Except for the fact it was missing two metal plates. I emailed the company, but either given A) the whole pandemic or B) it's not really a very bustling company, I never heard anything. Whatevs. I have scrap wood and tools. So I set out to make the brackets myself from some plywood. It was a simple matter of tracing the pattern and using my router table to cut out the shape.

The catch is the legs–like is the style–which are angled at 5º. So I set my chop saw to that angle and dug up a scrap 2x2. Then hammered in a T-nut and boom. (Note: the T-nut is in backward on that photo… I ended up having to pound it in from the other side of the plate so that, when screwed in them, the legs torqued down and held the only-glued 2x2 in place) Oh, I spray painted them with some flat black paint the previous owners had left in the garage. Again, thanks!

Then it was just a matter of seeing if they'd, well, do the trick. The original, metal plate:

My wood knockoff:

Meh, seems to work.

Boom.

It's pretty cool having a little sofa in our bedroom, I'm not gonna lie…