New Couch
Penny has been here a week now, and aside from the push to make it so she’s got room to work on Lust orders, the main focus has been to make this place feel like our home. The bedroom was basically set up when she got here, and the “dungeon” side of the basement was empty for her to temporarily move Lust into, but aside from that it was all a blank slate. It was hard to resist the urge to start decorating and setting the place up more, but I wanted it to be done by both of us so it wouldn’t feel like she was moving into my house when she got here as opposed to feeling like we’re setting up our house.
Since she’s been here we’ve been debating what colors we want to paint the rooms, picking up random bits of donated furniture, and setting up house. Sunday Penny started coming down with a cold and having the living room set up with a TV and the ability to lounge around and watch a movie moved the living room to the top of the to-do list. Our friends Josh and Amy are donating a big TV to us since they just upgraded to a flat screen, so the main thing we needed was a couch.
We were convinced that we needed a cool looking orange vintage couch since we liked how the orange latch-hook Jesus my sister made for us back in the day looked on the sky blue walls, but we weren’t having much luck on craigslist. So we decided to hit the thrift store and garage/estate sale circuit in the area. We struck out on the couch at the garage and estate sales we made it to, but did score some new kitsch for the house.
After the last sale, we were both hungry and wanted to go to our favorite Oakland burrito place. Luckily I turned the wrong way on international and we passed a store called “Po’ Honey’s Used Furniture”… we HAD to stop. I made a u-turn and we stopped to check it out. As we walked in we both saw, buried right in the middle of it all, the greatest of all vintage couches.
It was that 60’s dark green somewhere between pea soup and olive drab, so It took a bit to convince Penny since she was so orange-centric. Luckily as soon as she climbed over all the other couches blocking it in and sat on it, she was convinced to at least give it a shot. It was priced low enough that she decided that even if she didn’t like the way the color looked against the blue wall, she could live with it for a while, then sell it off on craigslist and get something better in a few months
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We got them to throw in weird old 60s TV stand for cheap and they helped load it into the truck and we were on our way. Some hipster “kid” on a fixed gear bike wearing a weird brown leather bicycle cap and a vintage 60s brown double knit polyester shirt with gold metallic threads in it tried to buy the couch out of the back of the truck on the way home, and that did a lot to overcome Penny’s doubts. We were a little overly optimistic about our ability to get the couch upstairs, but we managed it with not too much physical injury (but I think the neighborhood kids gained some new vocabulary).
As soon as it was in place, we both knew it was perfect. Now we need to find a good coffee table to match and some kind of table to go in the corner between them. I think Po’ Honey’s is gonna be seeing us again soon.
Penny testing the love seat before it got loaded into the truck.
Penny's sickly thumbs-up for the couch in it's new home.
Since she’s been here we’ve been debating what colors we want to paint the rooms, picking up random bits of donated furniture, and setting up house. Sunday Penny started coming down with a cold and having the living room set up with a TV and the ability to lounge around and watch a movie moved the living room to the top of the to-do list. Our friends Josh and Amy are donating a big TV to us since they just upgraded to a flat screen, so the main thing we needed was a couch.
We were convinced that we needed a cool looking orange vintage couch since we liked how the orange latch-hook Jesus my sister made for us back in the day looked on the sky blue walls, but we weren’t having much luck on craigslist. So we decided to hit the thrift store and garage/estate sale circuit in the area. We struck out on the couch at the garage and estate sales we made it to, but did score some new kitsch for the house.
After the last sale, we were both hungry and wanted to go to our favorite Oakland burrito place. Luckily I turned the wrong way on international and we passed a store called “Po’ Honey’s Used Furniture”… we HAD to stop. I made a u-turn and we stopped to check it out. As we walked in we both saw, buried right in the middle of it all, the greatest of all vintage couches.
It was that 60’s dark green somewhere between pea soup and olive drab, so It took a bit to convince Penny since she was so orange-centric. Luckily as soon as she climbed over all the other couches blocking it in and sat on it, she was convinced to at least give it a shot. It was priced low enough that she decided that even if she didn’t like the way the color looked against the blue wall, she could live with it for a while, then sell it off on craigslist and get something better in a few months
.
We got them to throw in weird old 60s TV stand for cheap and they helped load it into the truck and we were on our way. Some hipster “kid” on a fixed gear bike wearing a weird brown leather bicycle cap and a vintage 60s brown double knit polyester shirt with gold metallic threads in it tried to buy the couch out of the back of the truck on the way home, and that did a lot to overcome Penny’s doubts. We were a little overly optimistic about our ability to get the couch upstairs, but we managed it with not too much physical injury (but I think the neighborhood kids gained some new vocabulary).
As soon as it was in place, we both knew it was perfect. Now we need to find a good coffee table to match and some kind of table to go in the corner between them. I think Po’ Honey’s is gonna be seeing us again soon.
Penny testing the love seat before it got loaded into the truck.
Penny's sickly thumbs-up for the couch in it's new home.