25 July 2021

Ce n'est pas un château...

...mais c'est chez nous depuis plus de 18 ans. The time had come to get a new sofa. The old one, which we bought in 2010, was looking slightly dingy (miteux, vétuste, fatigué). The dogs have never spent time on it, but the cat certainly has. So a few weeks ago, we took the covers off the seat and back cushions and washed them. That was a bad idea. The zippers on the back of both of the seat cushions broke. So we knew we were in trouble. Here's what the old sofa looked like in November 2010.



If you've ever visited (BettyAnn, CHM, Evelyn, Judy...), then you've seen the old beige sofa already. After much on-line shopping, we found the new blue sofa you see below. It's longer, with three true seats, and it's higher off the floor. It was delivered on Thursday, before we had taken the old sofa out, so we had the delivery guys put the new one in the garage downstairs. I think they were happy not to have to carry it up the stairs to the living room. Here's what the living room looks like now.


The old sofa was heavy, and getting it down the stairs wasn't easy. Thursday was a hot and fairly humid day. We both broke a sweat, for sure. Getting the new sofa up the stairs wasn't quite as hard. While there was no sofa in the room, we moved the other furniture out as well and did some spring cleaning (several months late). Walt ran the aspirateur over both sides of the rug and then mopped the floor while I went to the supermarket. Then we put (or are putting) it all back together. I think I like the new look.

23 comments:

  1. It looks great! Your living room is so comfortable and welcoming;

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  2. Like the blue one better for sure!

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    1. The blue sofa is long enough that I can lie down on it, which was not true of the beige one. Sometimes, after getting up at 4 a.m., by 6 or so I feel like taking a short nap.

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  3. Even though blue is not at all my color, I like the new sofa better, it fits better with the archairs. I already can see Walt lying, lazing, sleeping on it while looking at tennis on TV! I’m sure Bertie’s going to like it.

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    1. The beige canapé was too low for you to be comfortable on it. The armchairs are slightly low too, and we plan to buy new legs for them to make them a little higher off the floor.

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  4. Very nice! I bet you'll enjoy the extra length. I love that wall color, and it looks good against the blue. Nice window!

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    1. We had a new window put in in 2012. The old divided-lights window wasn't anywhere near air-tight, so in cold weather you couldn't sit comfortably on the sofa — too much cold wind on the back of your neck.

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  5. Excellent choice! Your living room is very comfortable and very conducive to good conversation.

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  6. How many cds did you get rid of? ;)

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    1. Four hundred at least. I spent an entire winter, a few years ago, "ripping" them and putting them into iTunes.

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    2. By the way, all the musci CDs are still in boxes in a closet upstairs.

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  7. I would love to ‘refresh’ the house you linked to yesterday. Perhaps in my next life.

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  8. Very smart, and a nice bright colour.

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  9. I like it, too! My Mother always said it was good to have a sofa that one could "stretch out in"!

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  10. I agree that a larger sofa is a good thing. It looks really nice in your living room.

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    1. We were lucky to be able to find a new sofa pretty fast. Ordered it from Amazon.fr. It was on backordered, but we only had to wait two or three weeks.

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