The above picture is our old set-up. We had a love seat and a nest chair thing. They were nice but were a little uncomfortable to sit on all day. Chanae found a full size couch online for $15 and we decided to go look at it. I measured the doorways, the floor to the ceiling and the distance across where we would put the couch. Everything fit the couch. So we bought it. We had to sell our other two couches to make room so Chanae put them up for sale and they went quick. Next we got our new couch and started the project of moving it into our apartment. We found out quickly that this would not be an easy task, but for some reason it took us a long time to figure out that it was impossible. The problem that we were dealing with was that I had measured the couch from end to end and knew that it was shorter than the ceiling. However to get the couch into that position you must tip it and the couch was too long to rotate upright. We tried everything and at one point considered breaking a board in the couch to give it a bit more flexibility. We didn't. In the end the couch defeated us and is now sitting at the top of the stairs. Chanae put it up for sail for $25 – if anyone is interested in a new couch ;-). We figured for all the work that we did trying to get it into our apartment we should at least make a profit.
So above is where our couch now sits until someone with a higher ceiling decides to buy it and below is where Chanae and I sit. We have never seen our apartment look roomier but we are hoping to fill this space with something more comfortable than the carpet. We have all heard the old saying don't count your chickens before they hatch. Well we might start saying don't sell your couches until you know if the new one will fit into your apartment. Who knows, it might catch on.
*This post was written by David Landeen... if you didn't notice.
