A girl has a right to change her mind. Especially in matters of the heart...and the home.
At least that's what I'm telling myself this morning as I face the scene in my living and dining rooms. Which, at the moment, contain no less than FOUR couches, TWO dining tables, ONE overstuffed chair and a partridge in a pear tree.
Come see for yourself.
Exhibit A: The week-old cocoa Crate and Barrel "Petrie" sofa, which--as it turns out--looks purple in direct sunlight. I know this because my mom walked in and went, "You got a purple couch???" IT GOES.The just-acquired khaki Room and Board "Jasper." It STAYS, though I am awaiting a package of fabric swatches to change its color via slipcover magic. My dog and my son will defile that off-white surface in SECONDS.
The brick red Room and Board "Grace" chair, which was purchased three houses ago. Its future is uncertain at the moment. The design is cool but frankly, I'm sick of that red.The zebra rug that GOES because 1) Ben finds it emasculating, and 2) it sheds like a wildebeest and has given the vacuum emphysema.
Exhibit B:
Up against the walls you will find both pieces of the 10-foot Room and Board "Chelsea" sectional. This couch is fabulously comfy and was perfect in our last house, but the scale is wrong for our current home. Plus this bitch broke my toe. It GOES.
Also featured is our recent Craig's List coup, a mid-Century Danish modern dining set, complete with a matching hutch and (obscured by couch) credenza. It STAYS, but the chair seats will be reupholstered. When I settle on a color scheme. Which may be never.
Exhibit C:
The Room & Board "Parsons" table and one of eight corresponding "Radius" Chairs. These babies won't fit in my basement, which means it GOES. This set is now available on Craig's List for a mere FRACTION of the original purchase price. Interested?Also seen here is the mid-century Danish modern coffee table I recently picked up at an antique store. It's a nice piece, though in retrospect we may need on that is more rectangular. It has been granted temporarily asylum until I make up my mind about it.
I'll tell you what. This home decorating business is exhausting! I need a nap just thinking about it! And I'd take one. Really, I would.
It's just that I can't decide which couch to lie down on.
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YOU GOT THAT DINING SET ON CRAIGSLIST???!!! Sorry was I yelling? All I ever find on Craigslist is junk people are trying to pass off as "Pottery Barn". Sooo jealous!!
You know, I am glad, in a strange sort of way to hear you thought the couch was purple. I almost bought it, but kept thinking it seemed purple when i looked at the swarch at home, thought I was losing my mind, bought an almost identical brown one at Macy's instead.
I can't believe you have that Petrie sofa ... I love that stupid couch.
I want all your furniture rejects as we actually BOUGHT a purple couch years ago and my husband loves it. It kinda makes me wince all day, every day since I LIVE THERE and all. I am only confessing this here since he will never read this and I can't break his little purple couch loving heart.
That "chelsea" sectional would be purr-fect in my now purple couch living room. Is this on CL, too? :)
Actually, the purple couch thing makes me laugh because my husband SWEARS up and down that the couch he had in his apartment was blue. BLUE!
I really just don't have the heart to argue with him that it's a rather lovely purple.
Although, I suspect my gentle "uh, it's purple!" comment somehow planted a seed of doubt in his mind and led him to opt for the use of *my* couch in the living room when we moved in together.
The purple behemoth was demoted to the study in our last apartment and is now languishing in the basement of our home ;o)
Where did you get your "IT GOES" zebra rug? It would go perfectly in my lovely new room :)
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