Hello New Couch, Goodbye Ol’ One – UPDATE!

UPDATE!
Here is a picture of the new couch!

 

Today my husband and I purchased a new couch. It is about time since our old one is falling apart, smelly and gross. This is due in part to where I bought it over 5 years ago, a cheap buy-all-your-room here place, and because we have 2 dogs and 2 cats who think it is their couch. Plus I eat dinner on it about every night, so I am in part to blame.

For the old couch I went for big, big, big rolled arms and length with upholstery. I guess I thought bigger was better. More for my money per square inch. In a month the arms were squeaky and I could tell it was a piece of crap. And the cushions were lumpy in a matter of months too.  Okay, it was my first furniture purchase, and I had to do it all by myself.

The new one is compact, leather and hopefully very durable. It is made by Flexsteel, so time will tell if it holds up to its name. Luckily I had my sweet hubby to bounce things off of, and we have very similar tastes, or it would have way more difficult.

It will be 30 days until the new one is here, and I can’t wait for the smell of old rawhides to be gone from the living room! Plus I won’t be embarrassed to have people over.

footnote:

I realized as I cooked dinner that the color of our new couch is crimson. Is this a coincidence since my husband is from Alabama?? Also is it a coincidence that the one other couch we were considering was orange, and the only reason Scott did not like it was because of the color of the couch?? And a big portion of my family went to UTK – Big Orange????

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