Sofa Scrutiny

Have you ever been in the market for an item, be it small or large and know exactly in your mind what you want but can't find it?  That is me!

For the past 10 years I have had a red sofa and a blue loveseat, both the same style and make, same everything just different colors.  They used to have those overstuffed pillows for the back, but those are long gone!  I have learned over the years that the furniture that comes with those pillows are not a great idea.  Sure they look comfy and pretty in the showroom, but wait till you get home and are constantly straightening out those pillow or after some years those once full pillows have become flat - lost their lustre and look ridiculous.  If you are like me you tried adding more pillows but that ends in the same way.  Pillows just simply flatten out over time.  So now there are no pillows at all, just the less than comfy back (that was meant to support pillows).  Also somewhere about 2004, I removed all legs from the furniture as two little doggies of mine found it a good idea to pull down the bottom fabric and tunnel into the couch.  Thus we flipped the furniture, took off the legs and just sat it straight on the floor.  It sits a bit low now and somewhere along the way the legs of the furniture have gone MIA.

Which brings me to my endeavors to search out the perfect new sofa and loveseat.  I wrote on my Facebook status today what I was not looking for and the list was pretty long and even so it wasn't my entire list of "not wants".  NO: floral, plaid, patterns of any sort.  NO: tan, brown, country blue, forest green, goldtone.  Also left off no black or white.  Because of pets with fingernails...NO leather or faux leather.  NO: skirting around the bottom, wood inlays on the arms, loose pillows that make up the back.  Whew!  I am sure there are more mundane things that I do not like either.  But what do I want?  That is easy! 

Clean lines, simple style, metal legs in either silver or nickel coloring.  Colors?  Honestly I prefer a teal or burnt orange!  After searching three of the larger furniture showrooms in St. Louis today and leaving without finding my ideal, I came home and did a search on couch styles.  Low and behold I find that what I like is called Mid-Century Modern.  I found a photo of a couch that is exactly what I want.  I downloaded it into my photo editing program and "colored" the once cream colored couch in the photo to a shade similar to what I would like.

So this is the couch I am searching for!  If you see it, let me know.  I am looking to "adopt" this couch and show it a good home.  He will live in a smoke-free environment, be vacuumed of pet hair once every other week, will be warmed by the westward setting sun through a picture window every afternoon and will likely be my Saturday afternoon napping partner on occasion. 

Happy Sunday friends!