{At Home} So Close, Yet Sofa

So we had scheduled the sofa to be delivered on the 6th and it was.

We unwrapped the plastic and found this beauty:

A nice big rip on the bottom of the sofa.  *womp womp*

Ignore the drawers in the back. I'm so close to finishing up painting my dresser and just bought a foam roller for a final coat since it was still really streaky after 4 coats with a brush, but progress has stalled once again.

The tear was the length of my hand!
 

And not only was there a rip, but two of the four legs didn't fit properly. The holes for the screws didn't line up properly, so we called customer service and were basically told to wait for a callback to determine when they would drop off a new one and pick this one up.

So in the meantime we put the recliner together.

They finally dropped off the new sofa and took the reject on the 15th and so now it sits in the middle of the foyer until we have time to put it all together. I'm surprised it took another 8 days to get a new one though considering the saleslady said we could've gotten the original order in 2 days since black is always in stock.

Hopefully it's okay!

{At Home} No More Saggy Seating

Last summer I went around to a few stores with my parents in search of a new couch for the family room as the current one has been with us since about 1990? It's not too saggy or uncomfortable, but it sure is ugly to look at nowadays. We didn't find anything we loved and after sitting in so many in such a short period of time, they all felt the same so we took a break from shopping.

This past weekend my mom and I went out to look again and we ended up at the Sears furniture store since my mom really liked the quality of the leather we saw the last time we were there. After maybe 2.5 hours of hemming and hawing, we put our order in for Italsofa's Aquila sofa and reclining chair!

 We're getting the black three seater sofa. There are no good pictures of this couch online so I had to take a picture of the information card the saleslady gave me. I love the legs!

 I also took a photo of the photo I took on my phone (I don't know how to transfer photos to my computer lol). We really liked the high back and it's a recliner! Hopefully it's sturdy.

It's going to be delivered June 6th so we're going to be shifting couches around in the meantime. The current family room sofa and loveseat will go in the basement (although I don't think both will fit) and then the couch in the TV room in the basement will hit the curb!

I was originally against this couch because it seems a little to modern for our house, but my mom is thinking that it will eventually move with them when my parents downsize so it's a good size. Plus, it'll give me the kick-start I've been waiting for to finally tear down the wallpaper and chair rail we've had for as long as we've had the couches! I've probably wanted to repaint the room since the wallpaper went up! Gotta love 90's decor...

I don't tidy up for "before" photos lol. Makes the "after" more dramatic, hopefully!

I  am getting ahead of myself though. Even though the sofa and chair are coming next week, I have to paint a dresser before I even start thinking about touching the family room!