We Bought A Couch

Remember when I told you that we've been shopping for furniture as a hobby for a couple of months now? Well lately it's started to get really old, because now we live in our new place and the couch we have is embarrassing. You have no idea how many of these photos we've gone through..."Yea we found the couch we actually want now, and we'll probably buy it in the next couple of days."

But here it really is...the one. We actually spent the money on this one today, so it's written in stone.

This is the couch. We swore the whole time we were searching that we would not get leather, but I fell in love with this one as soon as I saw it.
We went in there on Saturday (for the 3rd time) ready to order it in a fabric we chose, and then the girl finally told us that it wouldn't work in fabric. One of the main reasons we love it - the fact that it's just a bench seat and not cushions - means that the fabric would wear out too fast and leather would be a much better option. I couldn't find any leather colours I liked though, and that put it way out of our budget (instead of just a little bit). Then she showed us this one. The leather was discontinued and so it was a floor model they were trying to get rid of for a while. She was able to give us a really good deal, but it was still a bit too expensive, so we told her we had to think about it. We thought about it all weekend, and then decided it was definitely what we wanted, and so we called today and put the money on it.
The main thing that made us choose this couch though is the matching chair and a half. I wanted a chair and a half really really bad, and we couldn't find nice ones anywhere. Seriously, name one furniture store you know in Calgary and I guarantee we looked there for one. But this one I love. Because we bought the couch in this leather, it the fabric we originally chose for the chair didn't match. But something even better happened. Eric said he wanted a patterned one. WHAT? I did not see that coming in any way. He wanted the pattern on the floor, because it looked really good with the leather on the floor. He wanted our living room to look just like that one. So we ordered the chair in a great pattern that I am so so excited for.
We get to pick up the couch anytime, but the chair is a special order so it's going to take 4-6 weeks to come in! I can't wait, I am so exicted! And since I have to wait that long to see the finished product, so do you! Just wait til yous see this pattern...it's fabulous!