Our apartment is almost entirely filled with Ikea furniture. When we moved in April, we needed a place for my sister to sleep and a place for us to sit, so we purchased a futon sofa to serve double duty. It's not the most comfortable thing to sit on, so when the sales were going on in July we went in search of a new sofa.
Unfortunately, Zurich Daddy Geek and I are the complete opposite when it comes to shopping for anything. We both like to do research ahead of time. However, I like to look at all of my options. ZDG wants to go in, make the purchase, and move on.
We weren't really happy with any of the Ikea sofas (at least the ones in our price range) although there were a couple that would have been okay. Our compromise was to go to one other furniture store to see if there was anything there that we would like, otherwise, we would pick a sofa from Ikea and move on. The lucky store was Conforama, near Glatt Zentrum.
As soon as we arrived at the store Little Geek Girl declared she was hungry. ZDG went ahead to look at the showroom while LGG and I stopped to have snack. When we went upstairs ZDG had identified several candidates. We considered a cream colored sofa with a chaise, but ultimately decided on the brown "Big Sofa." It was available to pick up that day, but I was happy to pay 90 CHF and wait a month for someone else to carry the thing up two flights of stairs.
Important requirement -- large enough for napping.
Comparison of futon sofa to the big sofa.
The decorative pillows were picked out by LGG. The elephant pillow is for me, the tiger pillow is for LGG, and the cow pillow is for ZDG.
2 comments:
Which one do I get to sleep on???
You can sleep on whichever one you want. We'll even get a mattress topper for the futon to make it more comfortable. And if you can convince the old fart to come, we might even give up our bed for you guys.
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