New Living Room Furniture

For the past six years, Andy and I have had a microfiber sectional couch with chaise and a recliner.  We have loved it!  The fabric is extremely durable and easy to clean.  However, Maddie sheds more hair than we were expecting.  All of the research we had done when we decided what dog we wanted said that Brittany Spaniels shed minimally.  Ha!  Not my dog.  When we bought our new house, we had an extra room for our old furniture and I wanted new leather furniture for the living room. 

We decided to go shopping before 4th of July, and apparently that's the best time to shop for furniture.  Every store we went to said that 4th of July was their biggest sale of the year.  Woohoo!  Good for us!  We stopped by Bel Furniture, Ashley Furniture, La-Z-Boy, and Rooms-to-Go.  Bel and Ashley Furniture both had living room sets that we liked, but one of us had a problem with the other one's favorite.  La-Z-Boy was too expensive for the budget we had set, so we didn't stay there very long.  We headed to Rooms-to-Go last and found our perfect living room set.  The sales associate that helped us was a little Asian woman and she was fantastic!!!  She was very knowledgeable and not too pushy.  She knew exactly what we wanted and steered us to all of their options.  We ended up spending about $250 over our original budget, but we both completely loved the furniture.

Here is a picture of it in the store.  We chose the brown color, technically called burgundy.  We got the 3-piece set of sofa, loveseat, and recliner.  We do not have a coffee table, lamp tables, or entertainment center yet, but those will come eventually.

Rooms-to-Go does not offer free delivery.  I tried to negotiate it, but it was non-negotiable.  Delivery would have been an additional $125 on top of the extra $250 we already paid for it so we opted to pick it up ourselves.  We bought the furniture on Tuesday and picked up it Saturday.  Here are a couple of pictures of the furniture actually in our house.  I am currently on the hunt for a floor rug, coffee table, lamp tables, etc.  So, please don't be too critical that the room looks really bare because it is, but I'm working on it.  Also, the furniture looks really dark in the pictures, and it is dark but not quite that dark.  I am hoping to find a lighter colored rug so that I can break up the browns from the floor and furniture.



Lonestar was NOT a fan of the new furniture.  After our flooring was installed (which I'll get to that in another post), he stayed in our bedroom under the bed for a couple of days.  He finally came out on his own, and I snapped this picture of him as he was "exploring" the living room.