Look Ma...I's a Grownup!

Sam and I finally rose above and beyond typical college/poor person life. Once we moved to New York, we came with only 6 suitcases, which contained our clothes, a bathroom scale and one frying pan! Since we figured it was only a temporary living situation, we decided that we would furnish our apartment with really cheap furniture. After sleeping on an Aero bed for a week, we caved and bought a futon. After sleeping on the futon in the living room for 2 1/2 months, we bought a bed. The real reason that we purchased the bed was because my parents were coming to visit for Thanksgiving and would need a place to sleep. Since I couldn't picture the four of us sharing the futon, we bought the cheapest(!) bed we could find. The bed sucks, and we both agreed that the futon sucked, but luckily we never had people over and we were only using them as places to rest our bodies.

When we realized that we might be staying in New York longer than planned and eventually moved to Brooklyn, we began to purchase nicer furnishings that would make us feel cozy. We caved and bought a TV, and bought a nice rug, a couple of ottomans, some shelves, etc. So we've had this really cute apartment in Park Slope with a shitty futon creating the biggest eye sore that Brooklyn has ever seen. Sure, it was great for people who were visiting us, and of course it was fine to spill things on, sweat on and let the cats scratch, but it sure wasn't pretty.

After begging my husband for what seemed like months, I casually dragged him to a few furniture stores a couple of weeks ago. He was down for getting a new couch, but we both had some criteria for the new place to sit. It had to be pretty, it had to fit in the apartment, it had to be inexpensive, but most of all, it had to be able to fold out for guests to sleep on. We found our match!

So, I give you...The jack-knife sofa! She's a beauty. With vinyl armrests (that the cats LOVE to scratch, unfortunately!), storage underneath, room for pillows and a design that totally pulls together our living room, we have finally found a comfy place to rest our butts!



It was wonderful to bid the futon farewell! My cousin took the frame and we gingerly tossed the mattress outside to be picked up by the sanitation department! We finally feel like adults! And we're finally ready to have friends over...