New Bed

We finally decided to upgrade our mattress. It was an older full-sized, and we decided we wanted a pillow-top queen. We weren’t terribly excited about the cost of a decent mattresses, though. As luck would have it, we found a slightly used Serta double pillow-top bed complete with box spring and frame from a guy who was moving in with his mother in Chicago and had a house liquidation sale. We got a good deal on it, too. The bed is incredibly soft. The only problem with it is that it takes twice as long to get out of the bed in the morning because it’s so damn comfortable.

April 28th, 2006  home   Tags: furniture, home, more...

The Hunt for Living Room Furniture

We went furniture shopping this weekend, as we’ve done quite a bit in the past few months. We were looking for roughly two end-tables, a TV center or armoir, and possibly a coffee table. We’d been having a difficult time finding pieces that were reasonably priced, fit our taste, and matched each other. We saw some complete fully-matching sets at a couple of places, but they were quite expensive. In an attempt to save money, we went to Target to try to find some decent end tables we could match against, but we were unable to find a TV center that matched well. After going through nearly a tank of gas, we realized that if were were going to get pieces that matched and looked well together, we’d probably have to buy a full set. I never knew how much of a pain it could be to find decent, but affordable living room furniture!

Although it was a fair amount more than we were hoping to spend, we found a perfect set at Van Vreedes in Appleton, which is where we originally bought our couch set. It helped that they gave us a roughly a 12% discount for paying cash. We ended up getting a TV center, two end tables, and some lamps that matched very nicely. Although we fell in love with a
couch table they also had, we didn’t feel we could afford it at this time. We didn’t buy the coffee table because we felt it would leave the room too cluttered.

So we’re excited to get our new furniture. Hopefully our living room won’t feel so empty now.

July 25th, 2005  home   Tags: furniture, home, more...