Well we finally did it; Saturday we purchased our first new piece of furniture. Like so many Saturday mornings we went off to look for a new couch. We still have our good old hand-me-down college hide-a-bed couch thats pinned striped about eight different shades of brown. When we go furniture shopping we typically find something that would suite our situation, but before we can put money down on it our frugality sets in and we decided to sleep on it. And always, by the next morning we determine our old couch still has some life in it and hope we’ll find a better deal.
But Saturday was different. We walked in the furniture-mart liquidators and there sitting on the show room floor was a dragon sage color
ed couch with the matching love seat. It looks like suede leather but in reality its called micro-fiber and it suppose to repel everything from pop and tar to ballpoint pen and gum. They say this material is kid proof. I asked the guy if it repelled little kids with scissors or Sharpe magic markers and he gave me an evil glance. So they are not completely kid proof but dang close.We have looked at mico-fiber before but usually they want a few thousand dollars plus your first-born. I keep on asking myself who spends $3000 on a couch….obviously someone without kids. But the price was right (thanks to a shady furniture mart on the bad side of town) and it was exactly what we were looking for.
And to make our weekend even better, we were also planning on looking for a new dresser (as we are still living in the one Jared and Jeremy shared as children). Friday night as we were walking in someone has thrown out a dresser in the complex trash. I don’t care about my self-dignity. There is always cool stuff in the dumpster and I have no problem dragging in home in mid afternoon while all the neighbors are getting off work. However Jared must have a little more self-respect because he waits until dark so no one sees him.
About 10 pm we took a walk out to the dumpster to assess the unruly piece and our conclusion was it is one uggo piece of furniture, but below the black lacker and white paint is a gorgeous walnut dresser in decent shape. I have never seen anything so ugly in my life, but I think I can get it back to a presentable piece.
So now with new couch and a new 8 ft dresser we decided it was time for a storage unit. After discovering a storage unit during the summer here will cost an arm and a leg we decided to rearrange our apartment. Its like one big Tetris game….how many things can you stick in 900sq/ft.? And we have the answer…everything but our kitchen table, but who needs one of those?
This is what the rest of our apartment looks like (thats melena in the chair)
And now I am psyched because when we have people over they don’t have to sit on our folding chairs that keep breaking and my socks and underwear now reside in separate drawers and Erin (who got our old dresser) is no longer living out of AE milk crates.
Life is good….
2 comments:
It is true what they say about micro-fiber couches. We have had our set for about a year, and we have yet to get a stain that won't wipe off with a little water. Some stains took some simple green too...but it still the stains are gone within minutes.
Congratulations on moving up to non-hand-me-down furniture! I have yet to reach that point but feel that I am very close to getting annoyed enough to take the plunge. Not in Austria of course, so I'll have to wait at least until June.
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