New Sofa excitements!

When we moved into our flat last year we bought pretty much everything second hand, had some bits given to us or bought bits from Matt's room with us. The only new piece of furniture we bought was the dinning room table. We also had some hand me down bits including our sofa. My friend Lisa gave it to us and we were really grateful to have a quality leather sofa.

It has done us well, but over Christmas with lots of sofa lounging it became apparent that it was too small for the both of us. We aren't particularly small people and with Matt being almost 6ft6" he takes up much more room than the average person. We did buy some footstools to go with it to get more room, but they are more like bean bags and aren't great to sit on and also have gone quite saggy so aren't brilliant anymore for putting your feet up.

I think generally its beginning to get a little annoying while we eat or are on the laptop to constantly bashing elbows and as much as I love cuddling up in the evening to watch a film, there are times when I want my own space. I also get the impression Matt isn't so fond of my using him as a foot rest every evening too haha!

We know the flat is too small for a second sofa or chair so I've been thinking for a while perhaps to get a bigger sofa.

So on Saturday we went over to Croydon to look at sofas. We needed a 3 seater with narrow arms so it takes up the least amount of room but with the most seating area. It was a tricky to find ones that were right size and that we liked, but we walked into Sofa World and fell in love straight away with this Collage Graceland Silver Mix Sofa!

It is the exact size in width that we needed and was soft but firm to sit on. The little coloured buttons and cushions really added a pop of colour and personality to the sofa while the colours were still nice and neutral. We also decided to go for the footstool that comes with storage inside too to add more seating in the living room or make more sofa space for us when it is just the two of us!

We went and looked in all the sofa shops around but we couldn't find ones we liked as much as this one or ones that were the right size! After a little chat about it and an Ikea hot dog later we went and bought it with the matching footstool! 

Having items that have a little bit of quirkiness to them has always been important to us and this is a perfect balance of quirk and sensible! 

I was pretty excited to find out that we didn't even have to wait long for it to arrive and we could have it on Wednesday, so a nice excuse to get a day off of work! 

It arrived and after a slight panic  it wouldn't fit through the doors we had it inside within an hour and I was exceptionally pleased with it!

I am so happy with how it fits into the flat. It is the perfect size and I am really pleased it doesn't over whelm the front room! It also fits in perfectly along the wall and there is enough room for the sofa and the table!

Even though it is much larger than the previous sofa I think because of the light colours it actually makes the room feel more airy!

So far we have really been enjoying having more room to stretch out and relax. We have enough room now to have our own space and when we want to lots of room to snuggle up!

I really couldn't be happy with this sofa and footstool and so far my experience with Sofa Works has been great!

Heres to happy sitting to all!