Own It

Ok so it took me forever to finally finish this post and get it posted... I've been so busy lately...

So we went to Taft Wednesday night. We were on a mission to find an entertainment center because Alex wants to bring his large and very heavy TV down to the apartment and he took one look at my current TV cart and pronounced it unworthy. So I figured we'd go to Taft because when I was pricing furniture a few months ago, Taft kept coming up the cheapest.

So we went. When you arrive in the showroom at Taft, you immediately walk into the leather section. So, for the first half hour we were there we had to sit on every leather sofa there so Alex could say "Ahhh..." while he put his sneaker-clad feet up on the coffee tables. Then I'd have to drag him away and say, "we're not getting leather." I mean, please. We can't afford good leather furniture yet, so what's the point? That, and Molly would destroy it. Stupid cat.

Anyway, so we toured the store, sitting on all the lovely couches and laughing at the unlovely ones. And then we found the sofa.

It was just so lovely. And comfy. And large. And (relatively) cheap! It was a (smallish) sectional that was slipcovered in a khaki colored denim with huge cushions that you would just sink into when you sat down. We both sat down and "Ahhh..."-ed. Then we looked at each other, both thinking the same thing... We should buy this sofa.

Our sofa at home was just so awful. I'd been avoiding going in the living room for weeks because I couldn't stand to try and sit on it. I say "try" because you weren't always successful in sitting down. There were two broken legs on the sofa and sometimes when you'd sit down, one of them would give out and you'd end up on the floor. Not fun.

So I did some calculations and we walked around the store for a while, looking at all the furniture while we turned the decision over in our heads. We found a few more pieces that we liked... a red armoire to put the TV and game systems in and a large cedar lined chest on casters to use as a coffee table. We ended up buying it all. They had financing available at 0% for the first year, and by my calculations, we could pay that off in 6 months after we were done paying off our Disney vacation by applying the same payments towards the furniture. So we did it.

The furniture will be here by the end of the week (arriving just in time for my birthday!), and I can't wait!!