Furniture Shopping

Our biggest adventure lately has been furniture shopping. As a joint anniversary present, Pete decided that we could get new living room furniture. The traditional gift for the 2nd year is cotton and furniture fits that category.

We decided to go to Furnitureland South in Jamestown, NC near High Point. We got there when it first opened and that was a good decision. It got busier and busier as the day went on. Our salesman was awesome and very patient. We told him a general idea of what we were looking for, the style we liked and a price range and he brought us the manufactures that best matched. It was a lot harder to pick a couch than I thought. Last time, we walked into the store, pointed and bought. This time, you had to pick arm style, back pillow style, core style and fabric. The 1st two were very easy, the rest took a little more time. We sat on a lot of couches looking for one that was most comfortable. Of course the one I really like was an upgraded one, but we are going to have this furniture for awhile, so it was worth it. They had this library of thousands of fabric samples. The manufacture we bought from had 5 sections. I though I wanted to go sage green, but I couldn't find a solid fabric that was the right color and texture, so we ended up with blue. The couch is a dark blue solid and the chairs are a strip that has the dark blue, a lighter blue, tan and white. I stared at them for at least 30 minutes to make sure I really like them. The salesman's patience was greatly appreciated. He even called out the manufacturer's rep out to help us with seat choices. Pete wanted to see the free choices before we made the choice. The guy went around and gathered cushions and brought them to one couch for us to try. I didn't like any of them and apparently it was obvious in my face. After all this we still needed to find an end table. A lot of walking later, we found one we both liked.

So after 3 and a half hours we have a new living room that should be here in 6-8 weeks.

Last night I was jokingly hitting Pete with the kitchen towel when Zora came running up and jumped up at us. She grabbed the towel and ran into the living room. We don't know if she did it because she thought we were playing or that I was hurting Pete. She did it again when I hit him with the other kitchen towel. I wanted to test the situation with pretending to hit him without the towel, but he wouldn't do it. No fun.

I am looking forward to the long weekend. We are having some people over for a BBQ on Saturday and other than that we have no plans.