New Sofa

Currently Craving: A nap, kind of

Today the new sofa that we ordered a few weeks ago arrived. It pretty much rules.

This thing is very very heavy. Two men from La Diff came and carried it up our stairs but they had to ask Max for help. they also got stuck half way up the stairs because our stairs take a 180 degree turn at the landing halfway up. eventually (after minor paint damage) they were able to get the thing all the way up and into my office.

Since we've been in the house my office has been my little sanctuary for yoga and computer stuff. one one wall i've got my computer desk and beside it is my bookshelf. when i got back from Ohio a few weeks ago i totally did a makeover on the bookshelf. it was exploding with yoga books that didn't have homes so i thought it would make more sense to make yoga book shelves and move some other things i don't look at to the shelves in our living room. so that began the Office makeover. About that time i also received a beautiful wind chime from my friend Karen in Cali. i'd love to put it outside, but then i'd never see it so i decided to hang it in my office in one of the windows. i think you can see it in some of the pics.

my space has this funny wall that sticks out in the absolute middle of the room for the chimney to come through. (now for the first time i'm wondering why they didn't put the chimney on the outside of the house) i actually really like this wall because my bookshelf fits into the cubby on one side and sits back. AND it is my handstand, forearmstand, and headstand wall. as i told my friend, Niki, on wednesday there are feet marks at all three levels and nobody cares because it is MY house!

Then in the corner i used to have a dresser from max's parents old house that held my Yoga DVDS and some CDs and other just random stuff. (see Before pictures below) The makeover took the dresser out. and put the sofa into that corner. Happily the sofa is just the right size to fit in the cubby on the other side of the chimney wall. and the bed will still pull out fully without hitting anything.

what i've discovered is that now that we're 3 months from our due date i just can't do the heavy lifting. so i did not help with carrying the dresser to the basement (thanks Rob) or with the adjusting the sofa into place. or even with pulling out the bed and putting it away just try it out when the delivery guys left. i just didn't realize how much i use my Abs in every day activities!

Anyway... all in all i think it's pretty sweet. you can check it out in the before and after photos below. max modeled the sofa for us. we also pulled out the decorative pillows from upstairs. he'd had them on his sofa at his old couch. i think eventually i'll replace them with something more girly. pink and purple in an india inspired fabric... west elm probably. You'll notice there aren't any pics of the computer side of the room and that's because at the time i was taking pics that side of the room was 100% totally loaded with the crap from the bookshelf and the dresser that needed to be redistributed in the house. happily now the clutter has been cleared mostly.

Now we're all set for Grandparents, Aunts and Uncles, and any wonderful friends who want to come. Hooray!