new furniture

As newlyweds and newly college grads, Rollin and I hadn't acquired much furniture. Therefore, for the past 9 months of marriage, our living room had consisted of a southwestern patterned couch, a mustard/gold small reclining chair, and a dark brown papasan.

Around November we started looking around for potential sofa and loveseat sets we could get. We had narrowed our choice to Ashley Furniture's durapella cocoa sofa and loveseat. Now we were just waiting to set aside the money and to get the right price.

We went back to Ashley's in the beginning of January to see what the price was and we weren't completely satisfied with the price. So we kept waiting for the right timing.

At the end of February we got a flyer in the mail that was a special 25% off deal only Friday March 4th from noon until 9. So we went so see what we could get the price for. When the sales consultant calculated the price for the sofa and loveseat with the 25% discount, added the tax, and added the delivery charge, the cost added up to be $8 under the amount we had set aside. PERFECT! So we got it!

Now we are waiting for it to get to the warehouse so we can set up a delivery time. Here's what it looks like...