Our new couch

My husband and I decided that since we finally have a living room that's big enough to hold two couches, that it'd be nice to get either a sectional or a second couch to go with the one we bought last summer. We spent 5 hours last Saturday couch shopping, but finally found one we loved.

We originally were going to get either a love seat or a couch that was exactly the same as our existing one (probably a couch because the provide more seating and are usually only about $50 more than the love seat). We found the couch we have, but decided to look around some more, see what else there was.

Originally we tried to go to the clearance center that we bought our first couch at, but they are no longer open on Saturdays. So we went to one of their regular retail outlets (RC Willey's), but nothing really reached out and said "You need to get me."

So we decided to check out the new Ikea that just opened in Salt Lake last month. We had fun wandering around, found lots of low price kitchen stuff to replace some of older kitchen items (we've been married 15 1/2 years and some of our stuff is that old), but really didn't like any of their furniture enough to pay the price they were asking for it.

Then we went to the other RC Willey's clearance outlet in Salt Lake. We found a sectional we really liked, but it only came in a very light tan, not really a good color with 11 year old and 13 year old boys and a 2 year old nephew I babysit 5 days a week.

We then went to Granite furniture, another furniture store. They basically had the same things RC Willey's did, but for about $50 to $100 more and the store was just kind of scary, it smelled funny and almost had an abandoned look to it.

So we were just going to give up when we drove past a John Paris furniture store. There we found a leather sectional we LOVED, but we decided we didn't really have $2000 to spend on it, so we kept looking through the store. One of things we loved about the sectional was the recliners on both ends. So we kept looking through the store and finally found a reclining sofa that was leather that both of us liked. The best part? It was only $750 including tax. It just got delivered about 20 minutes ago and can I tell you how much I love it? I'm impressed that it really only needs about 6 inches of clearance for the recliners on both ends, I was expecting it to be more like 1 to 2 feet. And it's so comfortable!

Our 13 year old son relaxing in the recliner

These are 2 pictures of other couch. I'm going to look and see if I can find some throw pillows that are black and tan to kind of coordinate the two couches together.