Spending money!

We've been spending money like drunken sailors on leave lately. YIKES! Jim and I have been wanting to replace the couch and TV in the den for a while. When we moved into the "new" house in 2004 we put the couch from my office in the den, and the old entertainment center. They weren't quite right for the rooms footprint, but we made them work. The couch was pretty new at the time, plus we were buying so much furniture for the rest of the house that was bare, and putting the pool, and the fence... Only so much money so many places to put it...

Well, the couch for my office was really never intended for the amount of use that it received in the den. It was meant to be used more like a chair not something to recline on and cuddle up with a bunch of family to watch a movie. We pile up like a bunch of puppies to watch TV. On that couch it just wasn't big enough or comfortable enough. It is a recliner couch the feet come up, but the bars in the middle are comfortable to lay across, and if you did recline you'd hit the wall. Not good things. Jim's had to touch up the wall where it was.

We've been searching for for over a year to find the right couch. We wanted something big enough for our"puppy pile" but small enough not to dwarf a 12x14 space. This elusive couch ideal was the hardest thing to find! But we finally did! Burgundy red leather sectional in a L shape that fits the room like it was made for it! Thank you Rooms to Go! We got it delivered on Friday. bright and early! They were prompt! Moved the old couch and had the new one in, less than 15 minutes! I was impressed.

Well, by Friday night Jim was in search of the perfect TV, and perfect TV stand. We found it Saturday. Samsung 32 flat screen HDTV. The picture was awesome! It was on SALE! It was ours! I'm really happy we got it we saw the same TV twice more for $400 more. Thank you Circuit City!

Now for the stand. the TV in the den had been in one of those HUGE amours designed for the old box style TVs, which was what was in it.
We bought it years ago when we first move to Tennessee, that would make it 13 pretty much. It was lovely but too big for the room, and wrong for the style and size TV we wanted. It needed replaced. We've been looking but until we bought the new TV didn't know what would be right.
most stores didn't really have much in the way of the style we wanted.
H.H.Gregg had the perfect stand! so pleased. It reminds me of graduated toad stools on the tree. Black and glass the TV bolted on it and the shelves hold the cable box, and in the future the DVD surround sound... guess what our next purchase will probably be... NEXT month or when the old furniture sells in the consignment shop...