Handcrafted

When my parents were married in 1960, They bought a seven-foot-long sofa, hand made in Toronto, Canada. Probably from the Sear’s catalogue. By 1975 that seven-foot-long sofa had been used as a living room trampoline by three children and half the neighbourhood, all of us growing larger and heavier every year. By 1980, with the kids grown into teenagers, my parents updated the living room furniture and carried the seven-foot sofa down to the basement “rec-room.” By 1990 with the kids grown up and moved out, my parents updated the living room one last time and moved the upstairs furniture downstairs again, and the seven-foot sofa was trucked out to the summer cottage – the last stand for any furniture at the end of its life.