Sorting the Sofa situation

For a while our lovely yellow sofa has been getting more and more tatty. This in itself isn't a problem in the House of Love; tatty has become part of our style. But I have been yearning for a sofa on which I can fully lie down. So much so in fact that it's pretty much all I think about in the evenings, how much this comfy sofa would make my life infinitely better. So, we saved up enough money to buy a brand new, really good sofa. But we had one major problem; that narrow doorway. Even sofas with removable arms and legs weren't going to fit through a 58cm wide doorway, followed by a narrow corridor AND be super comfy and snugly and long enough for me to lie out on completely.

Step up Ikea. Yes, we caved and went flat pack. So ok, maybe it won't be the classic, hard wearing, super beautiful dream sofa we'd been planning for but it did fit though our door and it is so comfy I could even spend a night on it if we had a mega family visit.

Bonus 1: washable removable covers, which is going to become more and more useful.
Bonus 2: it was only 450 quid so we've got enough money left from sofa saving to have an extra weekend away in a hotel before Christmas.

Clearing the way for the new sofa

adding the legs

putting on the covers

screwing on the back

stuffing the cushions

Tamsin and Camilla came round to borrow the drill, perfect timing to help us position the sofa

sorting out the scatters

All this means we now have a spare yellow 2 seat sofa, free to anyone who wants it!