So the boyfriend and I recently bought a new couch/loveseat set and two new ladder-wall-shelves.
Aren't we straight out of the pottery barn.
But walking into our house, you might think that dust is a major issue and no one lives here, or that someone is incontinent, or that we really, REALLY don't know how to sew slipcovers.
Why? Because our couches are covered with massive packing blankets, shaped vaguely LIKE couches, in order to protect them from our cats.
Now there is the argument that, regardless of what we do, these couches will get cat-destroyed, so we may as well just go for it. And there's the idea that you shouldn't own anything you can't afford to replace. And then there's just the concept that these things look really crap when you throw a mover's blanket over them.
But they are so beautiful underneath, I swear! Don't take that from me!
So we live an existence like Kevin in Home Alone, (that part where his cousin the bedwetter has to sleep with him? And they put on plastic sheets? and the whole night they crinkle? no?) or your Grandma who really does have plastic covers for her couches, and suck it up.
So much for finding our "perfect style"...
-Posted by Jilly
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
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Your gorgeous new furniture WILL eventually be damaged. This is a fact. I recommend you take matters into your own hands and do an intentional staining so that you won't be so upset the first time it happens.
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