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Final 12 months I discussed that I needed to get began on a refresh of our front room furnishings. It took me awhile to determine our furnishings association however now that I used to be proud of it, I used to be able to concentrate on what we needed in our area. It’s a lot simpler to furnish a room and be assured in your selections as soon as you know the way furnishings suits and the place it goes!
Effectively, I ended up getting distracted from the lounge after I unexpectedly discovered our Quincy mattress on Fb market! I really like these serendipitous adorning finds that you just by no means would have the ability to plan for. These are the very best surprises! I’m glad we unexpectedly discovered our dream mattress. I’m nonetheless having fun with engaged on our bed room!
However did you discover in these pictures that I’ve no front room sofa?
Let me clarify how this occurred. 🙂

Over the Christmas vacation my mother talked about she was in search of a small loveseat for his or her Tiny Cottage. They purchased a darling wicker furnishings set to start out with when the cottage addition was completed. They ended up placing their wicker couch outdoors on their porch to take pleasure in late final summer time and fall. It actually seems so cute there — proper now it’s coated for winter however we will’t look ahead to spring and summer time to take pleasure in it within the yard.
She instructed me she needed to have the ability to sit on a sofa in individual earlier than shopping for a brand new one. We don’t have a Pottery Barn or different furnishings shops she’d like close by so I instructed her we might go to Seattle after Christmas and have a look.
Sooner or later my mother commented that she wish to discover one about identical dimension and scale as our leather-based couch. Out of the blue I had an epiphany. I checked out my son (who was on the brink of go house) and I assumed to myself, perhaps whereas I’ve his muscle mass right here I ought to ask if my mother wish to strive my leather-based couch within the Tiny Cottage so she might take a look at out the dimensions.


My leather-based couch is not accessible at Pottery Barn in couch type (they solely have a chair model now) so even when she favored it she couldn’t go purchase the very same one (however I don’t assume she was planning to get leather-based anyway). However I assumed she would most likely take pleasure in having a sofa to sit down on for the following couple of winter months anyway because it takes so lengthy to order furnishings. So, we had our son assist take it over! Fortunately it isn’t far ha, just a bit jaunt by way of the yard.
I wasn’t essentially planning on completely eliminating our leather-based couch. In reality, I used to be simply pondering of getting a brand new chair or two and holding the leather-based. I had truly thought-about the opportunity of having a slipcover made for it for a contemporary summer time look. The couch dimension and form match our front room completely and leather-based was so forgiving for the canine, too. It truly was the nicest piece of furnishings we nonetheless owned after giving nearly all the pieces away to our youngsters after we moved in.


Effectively, lengthy story quick, my mother loves the leather-based couch within the Tiny Cottage. Ha! She positively would have given it again had I requested for it and he or she completely didn’t wish to trigger issues for me. I’m simply pleased that she is proud of it. Searching for furnishings might be onerous so I’m glad I might make that call and course of simpler for her. I’ll get new pics of the Tiny Cottage with the leather-based couch when she’s acquired all of it settled once more. It seems so cozy there!
So now that I’ve given away all 4 of my favourite couches over the previous few years 🙂 it’s time to determine what to do in my very own front room! I’m glad my couches all went to good houses (I couldn’t maintain them as a result of they had been manner too huge for this home). We’re not transferring so it is sensible to settle in with furnishings we like.
It’s form of the when you give a mouse a cookie however in reverse. When you give each member of the family a sofa, in some unspecified time in the future you’ll need one other sofa. Or one thing like that.


Talking of giving relations couches, this is the reason my mother didn’t have a sofa to start with. She gave hers away to relations when she moved right here. Our household is all the time passing good furnishings alongside to different relations — furnishings shuffling has develop into a lifestyle for us haha.
If a member of the family wants a sofa or if we’re transferring, we will normally simply cross a sofa alongside. Sharing is caring, however as soon as in awhile you do want you might take one again!
At the very least I do know my leather-based one labored nicely right here, in order that reality offers me a head begin on the dimensions and form to search for in my subsequent sofa.
Listed here are the questions I’ve to determine solutions to!
Do I even wish to get one other sofa?
Given the dimensions and form of our front room, would I be pleased with out a sofa and simply cozy chairs?
I assume I’d put a brand new sofa proper the place the leather-based sofa was? Or would I give each other strive in entrance of the french doorways or going through the hearth (which I made a decision I didn’t like with the leather-based).
What fashion of sofa and cloth do I would like?
How lengthy will it take me to save lots of up, furnishings is pricey!
Might I discover a dream sofa on Fb Market?
If I do get a sofa, I’m fairly positive I’ll need new chairs. That seems like when you give a mouse a cookie, however I hadn’t deliberate to maintain my chairs right here long run within the first place so I don’t assume that applies.
So many inquiries to be answered.


Do you know I wrote a ebook referred to as However The place Do I Put the Sofa? (with KariAnne of Thistlewood). It’s a enjoyable ebook with adorning questions from our readers! It’s one factor to reply different individuals’s adorning questions (and to provide all your furnishings away to good houses LOL) however now that I’ve to resolve my very own adorning issues I’ve lots to consider.
It’s a bit unsettling to not have my front room put collectively so I’m desirous to make these selections, however then I take into consideration what it should really feel wish to have misplaced all the pieces within the fires. Having a house and furnishings in any respect isn’t one thing to take as a right.
What sofa would you get for this area? Or would you stick to chairs?
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