{"id":3524,"date":"2009-04-26T18:29:20","date_gmt":"2009-04-26T10:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/2009\/04\/26\/new-sofa-finally\/"},"modified":"2009-04-26T18:29:20","modified_gmt":"2009-04-26T10:29:20","slug":"new-sofa-finally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2009\/04\/26\/new-sofa-finally\/","title":{"rendered":"New Sofa \u2013 Finally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I <a href=\"https:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/2008\/08\/07\/home-planner-wannabe\/\">blogged here 8 months ago<\/a> about our quest to find a new replacement sofa for our living room but never really got our hearts into it. Oh, we went by Courts and Ikea a couple of times and saw a couple of models we thought could be suitable but kept putting off a purchase.<\/p>\n<p>Necessity eventually got our procrastinating selves into action. Specifically, the zipper for the fabric cover of our sofa broke yesterday afternoon when I was trying to send the whole thing to wash. So, we took off for Ikea again, and found one that we both liked: a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ikea.com\/us\/en\/catalog\/categories\/series\/07488\/\">2 + 2 corner sofa Ektrop series with Idemo Biege<\/a> colored covers. OK so I said before I didn\u2019t want <a href=\"https:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/2009\/02\/04\/furniture-upgrades\/\">another sofa with fabric upholstery<\/a>, but leather was bringing around other challenges in maintenance.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" title=\"blog-2009-rivervale-DSC_0927-newIkeaSofa\" src=\"https:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/blog2009rivervaledsc-0927newikeasofa.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-2009-rivervale-DSC_0927-newIkeaSofa\" width=\"620\" height=\"412\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The thing is a lot larger than the old Beng Tuan cheapo the Ektrop is replacing and the TV area is now sort of partitioned off by the huge sofa. But then again, it\u2019s a lot more comfy with more legroom for my corner. The new sofa arrived this morning \u2013 just 17 hours after making the order. The cover looks a little crumpled though since it came packed in boxes. Damage was $1099 + $97 for delivery and assembly.<\/p>\n<p>Now we have to figure out what to do with the other sofa that\u2019s now lying upside down in our living room!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I blogged here 8 months ago about our quest to find a new replacement sofa for our living room but never really got our hearts into it. Oh, we went by Courts and Ikea a couple of times and saw<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-read-more\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2009\/04\/26\/new-sofa-finally\/\">Read More<span class=\"cleanwp-sr-only\">  New Sofa \u2013 Finally<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[217],"class_list":["post-3524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-at-home","tag-ikea","wpcat-6-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}