New Furniture!

First, I want to report the delivery of treats to our neighbors. We went out last night around 7pm-hoping that the time would not intrude on their dinners or anything, in the freezing rain to make our deliveries. We have 3 neighbors we were delivering to, and 2 our of the 3 were home. I think they really appreciated the gesture and were maybe even a little bit surprised by it. The first delivery was at the house on our right (that's for sale) and the woman answered the door. This is the woman that we have not met, but tricker treated at our house. I introduced us and explained that we made a sweet treat for Thanksgiving and that we hoped they had a wonderfully blessed Thanksgiving. She smiled and said thank you and even reach to shake my hand...but never told us her name. So we have met, but I still do not know her name. This kind of disappointed me. The second stop was the house on our lefts- upstairs apartment. We already know the gentleman who lives there, so it was pretty easy to deliver his. He too was surprised. I hope they enjoy them!

Now onto the real post today:

 About a month ago Stephen and I went furniture shopping and made a purchase we were quite excited about!

A week ago that purchase was finally delivered to our house.

Of course the delivery time was smack dab in the middle of the day (10-2). Why do places always do that? Luckily it worked out for Stephen to leave work early and get home in time to meet the delivery men. We were a little nervous about getting the furniture in the house since we had such a struggle getting our previous furniture in. Of course, our salesman was completely confident that everything would fit even though he did not know any specifics about our house. In the end we loved the furniture (and the price!) so we took a chance. Guess what?! It fit perfectly and without any stress at all.

Praise the Lord for that!

Here is a shot of our new loveseat and ottoman:

And the couch:

And the full room:

I was so anxious to get home from work and see the new furniture. The afternoon seemed to go on FOREVER for me, but finally I made it home. It was so exciting to come in and see new furniture in our living room. I was over the moon! Until...

I noticed the above hole in the couch. That's right. Our new furniture was delivered with damage. After calling the furniture store I was told that they would send a repairman out from a furniture upholstery shop. I was okay with that. Have they called or come yet? No. So, this afternoon I called the furniture store again. I mean, it has been a week that we have had the furniture and are not sitting on it because we don't want to make the hole larger! Today I actually talked to our salesman who said he was not told about the damage and that nothing was reported. Umm, really? All seems to be well now because he is trying to get us a replacement. I am thankful for that at least. I know that this was not the store fault, or any ones fault really-it is just a little disappointing to make a large purchase, look forward to it for weeks and then find out that it is damaged. Agreed?

I am hopeful that we will get a replacement sofa soon. Please pray that he finds one in this color, because they have been discontinued...hence the great deal we got!

Also, the room was very heavy with the large ottoman and coffee table. We decided to give the room a chance without the coffee table and so far I am loving it. We moved the coffee table to the basement before selling it or donating it just to make sure we were not going to miss it. I think removing it from the room was a good decision!

All in all, we love the new furniture. The loveseat is super comfy-and we know this because it is the only furniture we have been sitting on while waiting for the sofa to be repaired/replaced. Have you ever experienced poor customer service or damaged furniture?

I CANNOT believe tomorrow is Thanksgiving. Where did November go!?