O-Range Ya Glad It's Cheap?

Couches are pricy and a huge investment. But they can make or break your living-room. A drab couch can undermine your greatest efforts to modernize a drab house, and a couch in the wrong colour can wreak havoc on the aesthetic or mood of your humble abode. I found a riveting orange sofa at IKEA with what I see as : mod-artsy potential. Fiancee thought it suited somebody with ADHD in a mental institution who had a bubbly, laugh-when-nobody's-in-the-room personality. Hmmm....Black and gray\tan couches are so overused. How many people do you personally know who have orange couches? Or a mint-green one? Or  one with bubbles all over it? Someone is selling a salmon pink sofa on Kijiji right now as we speak! Salmon pink. How is that for a bold statement? It doesn't say Tuna Time. It says : boldly different. Cheerfully here. Modern but fun. I'm pink and I still think. Something like that. Plus,  the orange couch? It's on sale. 

 

Seating For All

I'm not quite sure how often we will have friends over. I know my close friends S____, A______ and a few others would enjoy sleeping over as well as our "day time friends" (they'll leave by car, etc) number around 5 or 6. I am panicked that our home will not hold enough seating for them and want to be adamant about creating seats for them even though seating for living rooms is quite pricy. Whether it's a wide ottoman, the sectional sofa, the plump one-seater chair, the bean bag chair or an extra large pillow I want everyone to have a seat! As well as for dining there is the stools by the island, the cafe chairs and the dining chairs. I think we'll do just fine!