Looking for a post about a sofa.
 

A while back one of the ladies here posted a project she did. She recovered her sofa with either a slipcover or totally reupholstered the sofa. What I am looking for is the seat cushion information. She made the seat into on long cushion.

I am curious as to how firm was the foam and was it memory foam?


Thanks for the help in advance.

Doesn't memory foam retain the shape of whatever was on it??

Dad has a memory foam pillow for the seat of his wheelchair and when he's not in it, the pillow goes back to it's original shape. That's my only experience/knowledge of 'memory foam'.

Get '' High Density '' foam slabs at JoAnn's they were the best price but it is still quite pricey so use a 50% coupon. My brother re-done my older love seat and changed it from 4 cushions to a solid seat and back.This was 5 years ago and it still looks and feels new. And I slept on it for 2 winters.

When I reuphoster, I'm able to get foam custom cut from a wonderful firm in Buffalo, NY. The postage would be prohibitive to go out West, but you might look for a firm that custom cuts. I watched the men as they cut from a slab of dense foam - it was over 8 feet tall, about 10 feet long and 4 feet wide. My cushions were the perfect size and very thick (8 inches) and have lasted well for the past 10 years. The ones at Joanns are at most 6 inches and require you to cut the 4 feet long pieces to fit your cushion size. I hope that this is helpful.

Thanks for the replies. I am or should say was an Upholsterer since the age of 17. I have to be careful on the firmness of the seat cushion concerning my husband. He has back issues and can not sit for long periods of time. We have a Temperpedic mattress on our bed. So I am wondering if buying a twin size memory foam mattress would be better than using just a firm dense foam.

I know what you mean about the density of the foam. I bought two slabs of high density foam at "Pacific Iron & Metal" in Seattle. This was to replace the mattress on a futon frame that we altered for an always upright couch. Sitting on that high density 5" foam slab was like sitting on a board. I put king size pillows in washable covers and that is the top layer for the seat. Over a period of several years the pillows have no more "puff", so I just move them to some other use. Two layers of eggcrate mattress topper wrapped in a sheet was comfortable as a topper, but the big pillows were easier that making a cover for the eggcrate foam.