It is HOT outside this week. Another scorcher. Remember this commercial?
Luckily, due to the new blower we got on our AC/Furnace (is it weird that it’s the same unit?) last winter when the heat went out… the AC is much more efficient than last summer. So we don’t need to call Sears. I wonder if that phone number still works…..
So, the whole “dining room” thing didn’t work out so well. Actually, after the last time I posted about my aspirations of sitting down and eating at the dining table, the table leaves got folded down, table was shoved in the wall, and the room was turned into a workshop for refinishing the coffee table (you saw it in yesterday’s post). I’d show you pics of the room in workshop mode, but as you also learned yesterday, my pictures got erased. So no photo.
Anyway, now that the blue couch and black coffee table have been replaced in the dining room, I know you were all dying to know what became of them. We didn’t get rid of it; the set now lives in the dining room.
The blue looks pretty nice in there, don’t you think? In fact, I think it’s much nicer to have two sitting areas–one in front of the TV (we’ve been watching a lot of Scrubs and Hoarders on Netflix) and one where I can read my plethora of magazines. Doug was overjoyed to evict all the magazines from the living room. The dining room table is now shoved against the opposite wall (for those of you that can picture it, the wall to your direct left as you enter the room). One table leaf is up and my laptop has found a home. I’m blogging from it right now.
I was going to post this the week we got back from St Louis. I was all pumped to do so, until I found out that my XD card had become corrupted and I lost all the pictures on it–including all the pictures from the trip (that I hadn’t already posted here). Major bummer.
So I stopped blogging for a little while, because I was upset.
Anyway! I don’t want to unwrap my couch for a “before” picture like I had already taken [picture deteriorating orangey-brown cushions], so now you have a shot of what my living room looks like at the moment. The quilt currently on the couch was handmade by my great grandmother on the other side of the family. I’m planning on using it on a guest bed or something once we have multiple bedrooms.
This Danish Modern couch was given to me by my grandma in Illinois. Here she is, in all her mid-century glory! And isn’t the coffee table just perfect? The couch is long enough for 3-4 people to sit on comfortably (much longer than the blue loveseat) and I can lay all the way down on it head to toe which makes it longer than 5 feet.
The big plan for it is to smooth out the places where the stain is all scratchy, and try the old oil and wax treatment. If that turns out funky, the whole thing will be sanded down so we can finish it evenly. After my first big pay day (I got a new job! More on that at a later date) we’re going to order custom cushions from El Internet in a durable coal grey for a sleek look that will match whatever direction we plan on going in for the next ten years. Bonus–all the places I’ve priced cushions come to around 300 buckaroos for the 10-year high density cushion foam. Way cheaper than a new couch!
I would try to DIY cushion covers, but given the current shape of the foam and the fact that I want new, high-density professional grade foam, I’m going the purchase route so far. Luckily, they’re all square shape, and if I ever want to re-cover the new ones at a later date, it shouldn’t be that hard!
Thoughts?
My Friend Staci 