One of the necessary side trips on our remodel project journey is shopping for the peripherals.
Since waving the magic wand is not an option, like – presto! change-o! — Mrs. Mumsflowers, you are the proud owner of a complete family room – I now have to make decisions.
And one of the decisions is how to furnish the family room.
You’d think I’d be excited.
Well — no. And the pressure is on, in hopes of having the project finished down to the lampshades by Thanksgiving. And I am trying not to, but find it necessary to, contemplate any cost overruns that will likely occur.
However, should everything run like clockwork from here on out — wouldn’t it be nice to have a chair or two to sit on whilst admiring the completed family room/laundry/bathroom?
DH and I bought our first sofa and chair set over thirty years ago and once they were used up, managed on hand-me-downs the last twenty years. Getting something brand-spanking new once again had been unthinkable until now.
So yesterday, DH and I made run to R-town to meet up with H, who piled us all in her car so we could…ew, shop. I remember saying I wasn’t buying. Just shopping.
But first — we fortified ourselves for the task before us by stopping at Cracker Barrel for lunch. That was a very good move. I think I could live quite a while on their cornbread alone.
Borders detoured us for a few minutes, but then it was full steam ahead for SleepyCountry and whatever might be found there.
A very nice salesman, and in this case that is not an oxymoron, met us at the door and we began the chase.
Looked at two of their complete living room sets with a free widescreen TV thrown in. Nope.
Looked at their futons, as we were thinking that direction but had never seen one in the wild. Nope. Not ever.
Looked at overstuffed sleeper sofas. One of those behemoths would take up way too much space. Nope.
Do you have any smaller sleepers?
Yes we do — waaay over there.
It was love at first sight! Take a look:
It sits really well, as the seat in not overly long. It is not a microfiber, but more of a tweedy textured fabric. It has a queen-sized mattress but since all the bulkiness is absent from this model, it is small. The salesman opened it up, H and I tried it out, trying to imagine how it would work for Mom and Dad should I ever get them convinced to stay over during a visit. Bingo!
I then looked ten feet away and found this:
It’s called a club chair. The fabric pattern — well, look at it — is just too cool — and happens to go perfectly with the sofa! Again — not overstuffed — and sized right for the room. Too cute, huh? Wish we had room for the matching ottoman…
So next came the recliner search for DH and golly, were we on a roll. I couldn’t find a picture of it, but imagine a smallish yet comfortable Lazy Boy with an amber colored tweedy fabric — and you have it.
Do I buy or continue shopping? Well, you know how I hate shopping… If I can end the misery early and still be in budget, I am all for it.
We bought.
