One Room Challenge {Week Four}: Finding the Perfect Couch

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Week 5 / Week 6 / Week 7 (reveal)

The most exciting portion of our living room renovation happened this week: my novel couch arrived! If you’re new, nosotros lately started a six-week challenge called the One Room Challenge, hosted past times Linda at Calling It Home. In this challenge nosotros direct maintain half dozen weeks to redesign or renovate an entire room inwards our home. Our half dozen weeks is almost half-way done, in addition to nosotros all the same direct maintain a lot of piece of occupation to do, only I don’t attention correct now, because I direct maintain a gorgeous couch! lol. Let me say y'all my long, deplorable story close finding the perfect couch.

If you’ve ever viewed whatever of my abode tours (from our previous home), thus y'all already know that I endeavour non to percentage many pictures of my couch (and matching chair). I strategically direct maintain photos similar the ane above. I’m non proud of it. But this is what our electrical flow couch looks like…

It looks worse than the pictures (where I tried to embrace direct maintain the couch inwards pillows, lol). It’s ripped upwards from allowing the dogs on the couch (my bad!), it’s sagging inwards the middle. It’s non comfy. in addition to it’s not nice to direct maintain photos of. When my hubby in addition to I decided to movement to Green Acres (our novel barn home), the starting fourth dimension affair I said was, “I’m getting a novel couch then!” But getting a couch was waaaay harder than I idea it would be!

In getting a couch to fill upwards this space, at that spot were a dyad things that I wanted. 1) I wanted a blueish couch – specially after seeing ane inwards this home! 2) I wanted a Canadian made sofa if possible, in addition to 3) I needed it to live on comfortable. This couch was going to live on the principal sitting surface area of this home. This is where all of the visiting, motion-picture present watching, in addition to snuggling volition direct maintain place. It needs to live on comfy!

Since I alive upwards inwards Northern Alberta Canada (Grande Prairie to live on exact), at that spot are non a ton of article of furniture options. There are a few stores that nosotros went into in addition to sat on couches, only nil that genuinely struck me every bit having the correct modern expect to it.

Then at that spot was a household unit of measurement trip to Ontario, Canada. Even though I was at that spot to visit, I spent a few days hunting downwards well-known stores in addition to sitting on couches. I was likewise afraid of ordering a couch online without knowing for certain it would live on comfortable. I flora a few cracking options (from the Bay, approximately I could fellowship on Wayfair, in addition to Structube) in addition to was SUPER excited.

Only to larn abode in addition to uncovering out that no ane ships to Grande Prairie :( Why exercise I alive thus far north?! So of course of teaching I took to Instagram complaining, lol. And the possessor of Chiks Design Group came to my rescue!

She told me that she was an interior designer inwards town that could larn couches shipped to Grande Prairie, in addition to I could’ve cried I was thus happy. I direct maintain to acknowledge that I’ve never genuinely worked amongst an Interior Designer before. I e'er intend to myself, “why would I hire mortal for this?”. I’m a blogger. I’ve made approximately overnice rooms. I tin beginning my ain stuff. But I couldn’t. Not this time. Sometimes y'all involve to know when to acknowledge defeat, lol.

And I was SO happy I did. The possessor behind Chiks Design Group was thus amazing to bargain with. She knew my vision immediately, sent me examples, showed me stuff swatches in addition to unlike examples for wooden legs, in addition to helped me piece of occupation inside my budget. She was basically my fairy godmother.

She helped me uncovering this gorgeous, Canadian made, extremely comfortable, sofa from Marcantonio Designs. This couch is going to brand my novel living room to a greater extent than gorgeous than I imagined!

So did nosotros larn anything else done this week??

We got the cement board upwards on the fireplace, in addition to nosotros got the bench for beside the fireplace built, including the clever groove through the dorsum for the cords from the electronics.

We needed this bench to describe of piece of occupation solid our electronics thus that nosotros could form of cover them, only all the same direct maintain a functional TV amongst a cracking audio organisation :)

And a few of my shopping goods arrived! Including these gorgeous pillows, in addition to the gorgeous drinking glass vase from Wayfair Canada.

So fifty-fifty though I didn’t really  banking firm check off anything from my to-do list, it all the same felt similar a cracking week!

Since I’m an obsessive list-maker, here’s how I’m doing on my living room to-do list:

1. Figure out a colouring scheme for the room


2. Paint walls


3. Paint Ceiling


4. Buy a couch


5. Buy novel accent furniture


6. DIY approximately throw pillows


7. Build side tables


8. Build fireplace frame


9. Tile fireplace


10. Build bench beside fireplace


11. Make a bench seat


12. DIY approximately artwork


13. Wire in addition to install novel sconces


14. Replace all switches in addition to outlets


15. Pick out novel decor pieces

Please percentage your thoughts! I’d dearest to remove heed what y'all intend of our progress!