COUNTING COUCHES

 So call me crazy, but over the years (16 to be exact), my husband and I have had seven couches and three love seats.  We still own two of the couches and two of the love seats.  Fickle, who me?

I have been talking about getting rid of our sectional since about a month after we got it.  Don't get me wrong, it was comfy and seated a whole bunch of people.  But it was very cheaply made, my kids treated it as trampoline and I knew it wasn't going to hold up for very long.  

Why not let them just tear it up for a few years, right?  I thought long and hard about that.  

In the end I decided we would be better off cutting our losses and getting a better quality couch 

(that wasn't big enough to do flips on).  On a whim two Sundays ago, I listed it on Craigslist, for just a few hundred dollars less than what we originally paid for it last year.  Wouldn't you know, I got tons of e-mails and a buyer who never even tried to negotiate the price.  Seriously, people, if you have ever bought anything on Craigslist, you know the first thing you do is ask if they will take less.  

Oh well, I'm not complaining.  

Knowing we would be couchless by the weekend, my husband and I went couch shopping.  

First stop, Restoration Hardware.  I fell in love with one of their giant sofas on-line, and, of course,
I wanted to actually sit on it.  

This is the one.....

Pretty, right?  Also, pretty overpriced and not practical at all for my kids.  

I thought I wanted down and the sales ladies actually talked me out of that.  

I knew better than go with linen, but they stock that couch and it was going to be $1,000 cheaper 

to go with the linen slipcovered sofa.  To order the sofa in the fabric you can wipe boogers, snot and dirt off of, was more than I wanted to spend, given my track record with sofas.
I left defeated and couchless!

The next day, I wandered into a local furniture store right here in the heart of my small town,
Best Furniture.  In the 13 years I have lived here, I have only been in there one other time.  

I was pleasantly surprised by their selection.  I lucked out and found a floor sample that was on sale. 

What luck, we wouldn't have to sit on the floor for four weeks.  Enough rambling, meet the new sofa. 

It was delivered while I was out with the kids and when we came home and saw it,
they immediately said, "It's way too small!".  Well, considering the gigantic sectional
that was just moved out of here, it did feel small. 

I worried I'd made yet another sofa mistake. I went into panic mode.  

My husband had to calm me down.  It was a sad sight. 

Tragic avoided - I pulled the huge ottoman in from the living room and placed it in front of the new sofa.  The kids lounged back and threw their feet up there, quick like.  All was now right in the world!

Here's a close up of the fabric on the couch. 

It has a nice texture and most importantly, it's the color of DIRT!!

I also ordred two swivel arm chairs to go in front of the window. 

They will be here in a few weeks. 

The chairs are this style. 

And this is the fabric that is going on the chairs. 

I had really wanted to use these chairs in the room. 

I still LOVE the chairs, but they just weren't going to be practical 

or comfortable enough for our used and abused family room. 

Don't worry I have big plans for them still. 

So for now, all five of us will pile on the new comfy sofa.

Tell me, am I the only one who changes couches so often?  

And is there a support group out there for this issue?