Dave and I are both bean counting, practical to a fault, pragmatic folks. One of the things we decided early on was to get rid of my Florida sofa and his Minnesota sofa and buy a new one.
After weeks of searching, we settled on a sofa from Crate & Barrel. Over several months time we visited it in the store, sent away for fabric swashes, and dragged some of our kids to the mall to see it.
Then, day before yesterday, we did, uncharacteristically, a wild and crazy thing. We went to Ikea. My palms are getting sweaty just thinking about it. And, as you know, I don't sweat.
First thing we did was eat. Ikea has great, cheap food. I had two hot dogs, chips and coke for $2. Dave had Swedish meatballs with loganberry sauce for not much more.
Then we started the search. You really need that Ikea Road Map to get around. Long story short, We fell in love with a sofa!
And to make a much longer story short (the one where you get lost trying to check out and arrange for delivery while carrying your own sofa parts on your back.) we bought it.
It arrived yesterday, but, to our amazement, these big guys carried in some big boxes, put them down on the living room floor - and left!
Five hours later we had it assembled. We love it even more because we made it ourselves.
Now we can ask ourselves what my husband, Ken, used to say:
"What'll we do with all that money we saved?"
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