How-To: Hack a Mattress into a Couch

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Becky Stern is a Content Creator at Autodesk/Instructables, and part time faculty at New York’s School of Visual Arts Products of Design grad program. Making and sharing are her two biggest passions, and she's created hundreds of free online DIY tutorials and videos, mostly about technology and its intersection with crafts. Find her @bekathwia on YouTube/Twitter/Instagram.

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March 4th, 2010 2

Mattresses are big, bulky, and hard to recycle. If you don’t have space/use for your otherwise-fine mattress, try hacking it into a couch! This tutorial will go through cutting through the different parts of the mattress and making new coverings for the pieces.

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Goli Mohammadi says:

March 5th, 2010 at 9:37 am

Wow! Now *that’s* creative reuse. I love that she was not afraid to cut right through that mattress. Inspirational!

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How-To: Hack a Mattress into a Couch

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