New Furniture

Over Memorial Day weekend Brad and I decided to buy some new furniture. The couch had been ripped and chewed by the dog in her "beaver" puppy days and the back cushions had been smashed and lost their shape because Penny used to sit on the back of the couch to look out of the living room window in Richmond. Anyway, we didn't want to spend too much so we decided to get a Futon as that is the cheapest couch around, right? Well we went to a furniture store and bought a futon, it was actually a pretty neat couch, not quite a futon. It still converted to a bed but it had real cloth arms that folded down as well as the back. Brad was finishing the transaction with the futon and I decided to wander over to the "outlet" section of the store. We didn't look in the outlet section before because we were familiar with an outlet store in Richmond and the prices of their couches were still at least $500 or $600. I decide to look at a couple of the price tags and I found a couch and a loveseat for $300. Not $300 each but $300 total. $200 for the couch and $100 for the loveseat. And they are recliner sofas. "What," you might be asking, "is wrong with them?" Well they are outlet but those prices are crazy even for an outlet. I don't know how much they were really supposed to cost but they started out in the outlet at $500 and $400 but kept getting marked down. Now, you might be saying, "that's nice but you still haven't answered my question, what's wrong with them." Nothing, as far as we can tell, because we returned the futon (well we just had them refund the money as we had purchased the futon 10 minutes earlier) and we bought the couch and loveseat. Oh, and they're purple....So that might explain the price. They're dark purple so it's not that bad. They looked sillier in the store next to all of the tan and brown furniture. Brad doesn't really have any color in his apartment so they actually look nice. We'll take some pictures and add a link if possible. Penny really likes them. She's chewing her bone on the couch right now.