Seating for Six!

Our upstairs living room is a very weird shape.  It is long and not very wide and has a brick fireplace in the middle.  It is a cozy room, but it makes furniture placement very difficult.  Shortly after we moved in, we bought a love seat (2 seating spots) and a leather recliner (1 seating spot).  This gave us three places for people to sit.  To accommodate more people we bought a leather bench/storage box.  This gave us two more "modified" places to sit.  It wasn't perfect, but we made it work.

This year, we wanted to put a end to the seating issues.  We went to Becker Furniture World in Burnsville, MN and ordered a new couch!  It is a sectional sofa with a hide-a-bed!  We picked out the colors we wanted and submitted the order.  That was in February.  They FINALLY called to set up a delivery date for May 9th!  I guess the fabric we wanted got back ordered because of the earthquake in Japan?!

Getting the room set up around the new couch took a little bit of time and the relocation of the cable outlet, but we eventually got it!  We LOVE the new couch!  It is so nice to be able to lay down and relax and not be sitting on top of each other.  The kids really like it too!  We ended up keeping the leather recliner upstairs for now, so in total, we have six dedicated seating surfaces, but in all reality, we could get a couple more than five on the new couch!  I really can't wait for the first get together we have and everyone will have a place to sit!