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Making a sofa out of plastic bags and used balloons

Making a sofa out of plastic bags and used balloons
I had an old sofa structure in my house and I felt sorry to just dump it. So decided to keep it for something. Besides, I worked on a project involving thousands of balloons (You can check it out here) and I did not want to throw them away after being used, so I came up with the idea of using them as stuffing for the couch.
 
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Step 1Things you will need

This instructable has been made thinking of a couch but you can use the idea for cushions, puff sofas or stuff like that. In this case I had hundreds of used balloons, but you can use clean food wrappings, plastic bags or anything you can come up with.

Other things you might need:
-fabric
-big and strong (REALLY STRONG) bags
-stapler
-pins
-hammer
-cord
-any old sofa or chair structure
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8 comments
Feb 18, 2011. 10:11 PMsam3352 says:
per chance is that 'material' what you might remember being the hand towel (to dry your hands) that was on a reel that you pulled to get more cloth towel machine things. at primary school i remember them haha
Feb 3, 2009. 9:14 PMSolderguy says:
Wow! This is perfect to fix the sofa my dog tore to shreds! Thank you so much!
Oct 17, 2010. 7:10 AMElvenChild says:
ballons
Jul 27, 2009. 9:13 AMporcupinemamma says:
Hey! Way to go. remember, stripes and plaids are hard to work with, and it would probably have been less stressful to go with plain fabric than a pattern...but bonus!! you did it. BTW, your balloon arrangements are stellar!!!! Wooo Hooo! :0)
Feb 10, 2009. 2:41 AMaltomic says:
great structable i was recently at IKEA and they had a sofa that was missing the cushions, cover and legs. they were asking $1 for it. to me that was waaaaaay cheap, but Mrs Altomic said no way. this instructable would have worked perfectly with it.

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