the new furniture

Well, I bought furniture tonight--just a living room set. It took me forever at three different stores to decide what we wanted (and they were the first ones we looked at, of course). Next week, beefy deliverymen will arrive with this sofa, love seat, and lamps:

And these tables:

The tables that came with the sofa grouping were sort of cheap-looking in person, and the wood was less dark and more red than the picture looks. The ones from the other set looked sturdier, and they were more of the walnut stain that I love. We didn't really need the cocktail table, since that's the one piece of our current living room furniture that I actually like (oak apothecary table...I like the drawers for hiding storing stuff). However, our end tables are garage sale specials, so I wanted new ones. They were running a sale where we got a better deal the more pieces we bought, so I just went with it all. This sort of breaks my Grandma's advice/words of wisdom, which I try to follow but usually fail--"You never save money by buying more than you need." She's far more thrifty than I am, obviously, which is probably why she's still living comfortably on her savings at 82. :)

Anyway...since I expect that it'll be about another 20 or 30 minutes before the buyer's remorse really sets in, I'm going to go to bed before it hits. Otherwise, I'll be awake all night worrying about whether I made the right choice and whether I could have gotten him to throw in the fabric protection for free if I had just asked (uh-oh...starting already). Hopefully I'll look at the pictures again in the morning and be okay with everything. We really did need new furniture, after all.

Posted by Joy at March 11, 2005 10:31 PM

Very pretty. Is the stuff going to be white, like the picture?

Posted by: Jordana on March 15, 2005 11:20 AM

the furniture is darker in person, sort of a grayish khaki. It's still very light, and I was worried about that with 5 cats' worth of pet hair and our tendency to spill things.

I did buy the scotch-gard or teflon or whatever it is they use for fabric protection now. The salesman assured me (*cough*) that pet hair could be wiped off the microfiber pretty easily, maybe with a damp cloth. We still may have to invest in blankets to cover them if/when we have a baby in the house, because they are so light and it'd be a pain to be scrubbing curdled milk out of the couch every other week. :)

I did look at some other colors--there was a red set in particular that I liked. I didn't get it because I was afraid that I would get tired of the decor after a couple years...with this color, I can replace the throw pillows to give it a new look, rather than replacing a whole red sofa.

Posted by: joy on March 15, 2005 11:46 AM

We have a loveseat that's microfiberish, I think. It does clean up pretty easily and we don't even have Scotchguard. The only thing I haven't been able to get off is a ballpoint pen mark that my son made and then successfully hid for a month or so by turning the cushion around. I think you'll probably be fine with that fabric.

Posted by: Jordana on March 16, 2005 09:37 AM