Living Room Floors Furniture and Beyond

Found a better pix of Living Room floor and a really good, before/after shot.

Mid June:

Late September:

Transition to hallway looks very nice, I think:

L put the rack of shelves into Pantry. This will be great for those appliances and large pots that don't get daily use.

Did a lot of shopping yesterday. For Living Room set, possibly endtables, new TV etc. A previous trip, and most of this one consisted of looking at sofas that all pretty much looked like this:

Eh. L wants a recliner built-in - me not so much. Especially when it looks like 17 leather pillows all sewn together. It's been hard to find a compromise. The one above was less pillowy than some and I was 80% willing to relent; we came VERY CLOSE. This was at one of the larger stores in Portland, where they would "make a great deal for you in order to sell these TODAY!" I started looking for airbags and whitewalls and faked odometer readings. Can I see the Couchfax, please?

In a nod to Miss Kitty's bordello, I actually kind of liked these. They were extremely comfortable. But no recliner and a really light color with two aging cats and an, uh, "young adult" - well, as GHWB would say, "Wouldn't be prudent."

These are on the short list:

I like this. It's a little different, very comfortable. This was in the scratch and dent room, but there was another one in a brown tweed upstairs.

And there were a LOT of these, which I like too:

Maybe L doesn't care for them so much, eh?

L's fave was this one. Since these would be placed with the chair back facing the door, he liked that the back was interesting, too. We would not get the ottoman because we expect there will be a large coffee table. Even though no one in this house drinks coffee LOL.

At the end of the day, we did not get a TV (boy what IS it with the pushy salespeople? Oy! They were pushing the service agreements and we hadn't even picked out a set - those agreements are a HUGE revenue stream), end tables, loveseat or chairs, although the chairs immediately above are on the short list.

We DID find a couch and it is SO NOT what we expected we'd end up with.

More fun with this when it is delivered. Wednesday.