Like real adults and everything!

[gridlore]

So, having just gotten rid of old crappy furniture, we immediately needed new furniture! Makes sense to us.

Luckily, there's a Mancini's Sleepworld right next to the Cost Plus World Market I used to work at. Kirsten wanted to get a new frame for the futon cushion. The old frame is in the garage, providing a home to countless poisonous arachnids, but we don't have the instructions on how to put the thing together. Getting the new frame means getting the instructions. We're thinking. (Sorry about the smoke.)

Mancini's is neat in that it's very old school about shopping. Salespeople who actually great you, listen to you, and then help you decide after showing your options. The frame was $109, and I was amused that the sales guy was suggesting $400 cushions to go with it. But there was no high pressure. I really like that.

Next door to World Market. Damn, they've completely reset the entire store since I worked there. Not just minor shifts, but wholesale relocation of sections like Wine and Gourmet. Nobody I know works there anymore. You can't go home again. But you can find a nice wine rack that fits on the kitchen shelf. After some debate, I am finally the owner of my own papasan chair! My chair has darker wood with a red cushion. We didn't bother with the footstool today, that can come next week or something. Alas, the frame wouldn't fit in our over-stuffed car, so I volunteered to carry the thing home. It's only a block or so, right?

Did I mention that Storm 3 decided to hit us at that moment? Yeah, yet another raging inferno of wetness.

The futon frame gets delivered next Saturday. Between then and now, we need to clean the carpets.

Comments

[kevin-standlee.livejournal.com]

I have a fairly nice sofa in storage -- I bought it from my then-employer when the management were ordered to get rid of sofas in offices, and thus the VP had to get rid of a brand-new sofa -- that I would have been happy to give away. Getting it out of the storage locker in Yuba City would have been an interesting production, though, especially with this weather. It's at the very back of the 11x11 locker, so if I ever pull it out, it will require unloading the entire locker. And I've got a lot of stuff there.

[gridlore.livejournal.com]

The offer is appreciated; but the plan is to use the futon to open up the room a little more, and having both frames set up will allow us to have overnight visitors (the sewing room/library can be an actual guest bedroom, with the futon out from as overflow space.)

We're also trying to update the decor from 20th Century Hand-Me-Down. The futon, the papasan, a couple of new floor lamps, and the living room will have a vaguely oriental feel. As long as your concept of Asian design incorporates stuffed penguins all over the place.

[robertprior.livejournal.com]

Do you like Chinese art?

[gridlore.livejournal.com]

Not sure I've seen enough to really have an opinion.

[gridlore.livejournal.com]

kshandra says I like it.

[kshandra]

No, kshandra said she likes it. Granted, my knowledge of the genre doesn't extend much beyond calligraphy, but that's certainly pretty enough.

[murphymom.livejournal.com]

"The futon frame gets delivered next Saturday. Between then and now, we need to clean the carpets."

You have carpets? Who knew! (g, d & r l h)

[gridlore.livejournal.com]

Pppppbbtttttttttttt!!!!