New Sofa And Loveseat Calls For Major Redecorating

We ordered a new sofa and love seat about five weeks ago, and it arrived last week. We had to move out the old furniture before we could take delivery of the new stuff, and I learned some valuable lessons during the process.

This is how our family room looked before the new furniture. You can see the loveseat has a tear on the left side…….my couch potato side. The loveseat was several years old.

The sofa (photo taken during Christmas time) was older than the loveseat and the recliner on my side had quit working many years ago. Sounds like I’m hard on furniture.

The reclining chair on the right side of this photo is between 30 and 35 years old. It is a La-Z-Boy piece and they tend to last forever but the upholstery on the back side faded because the chair sits in front of a window.

I suppose the window should be replaced because it is not energy-efficient, and you can feel the heat from the sun when standing by the window.

The hubby isn’t much of a shopper, especially for furniture, so I usually take a tour of the furniture stores and pick out a few sets I like. With this plan hubby doesn’t have to suffer through days of furniture shopping.

After I selected a few furniture sets, we went on a one-day shopping trip to Clarksville and Nashville. 

Hubby was very patient and tried out a large number of sofas and loveseats. We had a nice lunch and discussed our favorites. The winner was the La-Z-Boy sofa and loveseat shown in the photo above. The set did not include a chair.

Our old furniture was really heavy and hubby just had eye surgery for a detached retina so he couldn’t lift anything heavy and I couldn’t either. We called a company to haul the furniture off for us.

I tried to donate it to Habitat or one of the thrift stores, but they won’t come inside your home, so the furniture has to be left outside. Well, that was no help for us at all.

It wasn’t cheap to pay someone to haul off the three pieces but it was easier than trying to coordinate trucks and times for our son and others to move everything out and haul it away.

It took less than one hour for the team we hired to disassemble the furniture and remove it from our property and I learned something in the process.

If you turn that heavy furniture over on its back, you can remove the iron frame bars on the bottom that hold the sections together. I found this tutorial here, in case you ever find yourself in the same position we were.

The hubby and I could have disassembled the sofa and loveseat and moved them ourselves, or my son and I could have moved them (since the hubby was still under doctor’s orders not to lift anything heavy).

Now to the next part of the new furniture adventure. The family room is a converted two-car garage and is very large. And there is a lot of furniture in the room.

I’m really tired of looking at all of the furniture and “stuff”. So, I decided to clear the room completely of the decor accessories and a few of the extra furniture pieces.

What a mess of stuff.

One thing I moved out that might surprise you is the vintage radio cabinet I painted Tricycle Red with Miss Mustard Seed’s Milk Paint about 13 years ago.

It is in one of our guest bedrooms for now. I don’t really want to sell it, but we only need so much furniture, and I’m over the “wall-to-wall” furniture look.

Take a look at all the stuff I’ve hauled out of the house and into the workshop for the time being.

I took everything off the walls too.

There are three bags of drop clothes sitting on the coffee table. I planned to make drop cloth curtains, but that didn’t go as planned, and I’ll tell you about it later.

The room sure looks large with all that junk out of there.

As you can see, I didn’t remove anything from this large bookcase unit. My uncle made the bookcase for me about 40 years ago and it is heavy, heavy!! I have a plan for all the stuff on the shelves.

After I removed all the excess accessories, I moved and cleaned behind the furniture…that is, the furniture I was able to move. I’ve never seen so much dust and dead bugs in my life. 

I cleaned baseboards, windows, and everything but the walls. That’s next. 

Our furniture has been delivered, and I am in the process of redecorating the room. Stay tuned for the reveal!! Kathy