Comments on: Styrofoam Sofa

By: Matthew

Matthew — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:49:45 +0000

I want to make one with some styrofoam i got from the trash. Exactly how is it done? Is glue used to hold it together?

By: kael

kael — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 18:20:32 +0000

max lamb produced a series of seats with a similar concept a while ago already. http://www.maxlamb.co.uk

By: liam

liam — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:29:00 +0000

mmm, i don’t get whats so un-environmental about this concept. Recycling polystyrene from packaging and upgrading it to a piece of furniture is a good thing. It means the styrene doesn’t end up in landfill. “But to the material’s credit, it does get warmer the longer you sit on it” this is not really a good thing.

By: Canastrophy

Canastrophy — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 21:38:24 +0000

A Sofa? I would have used a bigger block and carved a little cave! :3

By: Marty

Marty — Thu, 01 May 2008 15:16:36 +0000

How is reusing OLD styrofoam to make furniture less environmentally friendly than cutting down a tree to make a wooden chair, or a Chinese factory burning tons of coal to melt the steel needed for a metal chair, or the gallons of oil needed to make a plastic chair?

I hope your couch cushions are made from old tshirts stuffed with pine straw and grass clippings and not synthetic fibers and upholstery foam..

And just so you know, reusing old materials is about a thousand times more environmentally friendly than recycling them, since youre not wasting energy and burning fuels in order to melt them down for use in new products. But the reason you have recycling beat into your heads but no one says a peep about reusing is because reusing saves the consumer money, whereas recycling saves the corporations money.

By: visitor

visitor — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 07:57:03 +0000

beautiful~ love them

By: aaantique

aaantique — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 17:17:42 +0000

Your a bit late in the idea, the use of syrofoam for furniture was used in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s. I have a set of 4 chairs that are made of molded styrofoam, similar to a surfboard blank that is in the shape of a bucket chair and upholstered, they are still useable today almost 40 years later. I will be putting them on craislist san diego and ebay so keep your eyes open for them!

By: Passer-by

Passer-by — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 01:43:46 +0000

Won’t the styrofoam sofa break when you sit on it?

By: a

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 23:14:42 +0000

what a waste of time and blog space, its seriuosly ridiclulous

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