We really needed a new couch. The one we have is so old, it actually has holes in the fabric. Actual, real holes. We are talking about holes as big as my hand. We did not want to take it to the new house 😉 (Just in case anyone is wondering why we are already buying all this stuff: We just think we will be so busy with other things during the actual building period that we won’t feel like spending a whole day picking out furniture. Since all the stores offer to wait with delivery till the house is done, what better time to do it than the present? 😉 )
Because we know that the living room/dining room/kitchen area (it’s all one big room) will be mostly white and turquoise we really wanted a white couch with some turquoise in it. This was a very impossible task. No one had anything even close to what we wanted. So we started thinking that since our fireplace is gray, parts of the couch could also be gray.
We went to a store yesterday who didn’t have anything we liked at all and also had horrible prices. So today, while our oldest was at a cooking class, Chris, the other two kids and I went to Hoeffner in Munich. It’s a fairly large store and we had lots of time to wander around. After we saw some of their prices (do people really buy sofas for 8.999 Euros??!!) we almost gave up. Then we found some more reasonable priced ones. I actually liked one I saw but couldn’t change a certain part about it that I really disliked so I was pretty unhappy. Then Chris found one that he said he really wanted. Somehow I didn’t really like it much in the beginning. But then he showed me that one part of it is actually movable and that really changed my mind. It can be a regular couch, it can be a bed, it can be turned into a giant “movie-night-lounge” couch and it can be an extended couch for when guests are coming over. The extra part is not attached to anything so it is completely easy to rearrange at any given time. AND it was under 1000 Euros. Well under!
Hoeffner agreed that if we make a down payment we don’t have to pay till they deliver and they won’t deliver until the house is done. Great deal!
This also means that we got most of our furniture for the house together. The only thing missing is Ryan’s bedroom (he will get the parts from Paidi that match his bed) as well as shelves for the toy storage room and our walk in closet (we’ll have to go to IKEA for those). We already picked out the kitchen and the rest will be picked out at prohaus (even though we might still get bathroom stuff from IKEA, since we fell in love with something they had. We’ll see).
But back to the couch:
Here’s our awesome, hole-free, giant “fit for a family of 5”-couch:
The gray and white pillows are already included, but I was missing turquoise so I went around the store and found a turquoise pillow. We ended up buying 5 of them (for 1 Euro each!), as well as 3 turquoise place mats for our white kitchen island:
The 5 pillows had to be bought today since they don’t reserve those for you for several month. Our couch right now is WAY too small for 5 of them so I really have to find a way to store them somewhere till we move.
Well now that we got all the furniture done, let’s build this thing 😉
