Window Seat Couch/Bed (wood, nails, futon, tape measure)

For a while now we have been faking a couch in my living room. We had our futon mattress sitting on some old drawers with the back leaning against the wall. It looked OK,but was uncomfortable to sit on and the futon was constantly sliding off. After months of procrastination hubs and I got to work and built a couch that will serve our over night guests and our late night movie viewing needs.

First we brainstormed how we could salvage and repurpose the wood we already had, 2 sets of three horizontally attached drawers from my childhood bed. We decided to use one set of drawers as the front base and to cut up the other set in order to fit the new shape to the wall. Unfortunately we still had to purchase a few 1.5x4s to make the top support. We nailed them down on top of the drawers and the base was done.

To make the cushion we placed our old twin sized futon without the cover on the new platform and drew a line outlining the platform so we knew where to cut the futon for a custom fit. Next we cut/ripped the futon to be the right width. This was quite a wrestling match the futon stuffing is really thick, has many layers and falls apart so we were sneezing every 3 seconds and we were covered with cotton fiber dust.
Once we had the right width for the cushion we needed to make it the right length so we took old pillows and cut and folded to match width and depth and sewed it to the cut futon until we had a custom fit cushion. Wahoo!
All this taking roughly 5hrs. Beer break included. We still need to get some material to cover the couch but it's incredibly comfortable and works great as a guest bed.