Curtain Otaku: Ultra Blue Sofa King Awesome!

Series 1 Lounger pimped out sitting outside the shop waiting for delivery!

All great sofas have history, they have stories. Not to sound sentimental but Sofa's have lives too you know. If the conception and birth of Series 1 version 4 is any indication of this sofa's trajectory it might go on to become the next president of the United States. Ultra Blue as I nicknamed this one was commissioned by a friend and local entrepreneur an old Salt with a bent towards the Miller's. We selected an amazing aqua Japanese Ultrasuede, a fabric of amazing softness and strength. The colour was mesmerizing. Ordered the fabric, soft, breathable and impervious to most stains, it was so special in fact that they had to make a whole new batch just for our sofa. It's birth was a special event you see....

Special events often entail long lengthy unimaginable and uncomfortable delays...this was no exception. Our fabric waited for just the right amount of time before it decided to show up, waited until the timing was right, the stars were aligned and then showed up of it's own accord, mysteriously and in the night. Sadly we were already three weeks behind schedule and The sofa had to somehow make it's 600lb bulk over to the shores of the Naramata Bench, probably by way of Sprinter, in three days! Anna aka Hector Kamaji set about cutting and sewing like a spider using her multiple appendages to cut fold, sew and press... like a robotic assembly machine the only thing missing were the sparks, long gone, they would have burnt the fabric anyways. My job as always was to make sure everything goes smoothly, something I am especially good at failing. :) Nonetheless we worked hard and long and 37 hours later the truck was packed full of Ultra Blue, and on it's way down the Coquihalla.

4 LONG hours later I appeared outside the Sofa's new home, an amazing weekend getaway where Ultra Blue will spend it's mostly solitary existence waiting for people to come home for a weekend from the city or for a wine tasting excursion into the Okanagan, waiting to offer quiet support to half drunk revellers, it's soft cool surface offering a refreshing break over the incredibly hot dry air. Welcoming you to come and lie on it's generous lap, rest your work weary head on it's strong shoulders...

600lbs made it's way easily through the doors of it's new home, arranged itself just so... and fell asleep, until the next time it has somewhere to go.