Finally got the upholsterers out to pick up (and, of course, reupholster) the sofa and chair in the family room. The former is a sofa bed we bought a year or two ago, whose cushion fabric immediately split. The latter is a legacy of the in-laws’ living room, one or two redecorations ago, and has needed reupholstering for, well, over a decade (there are two mates to it upstairs in the bedroom, but they don’t get quite so much public view).<\/p>\n
We actually bought the fabric in California back at, um, Christmas, but I didn’t get the reupholsterers called until last week. Still, eight month turn-around on a project like that isn’t bad for us.<\/p>\n
The furniture is due back at the beginning of August. Meantime, we’ll need to pull a couple of chairs downstairs to camp out on. After we vacuum the couple-years-of-dust-and-debris that was under the couch (Kitten is in Daddy-Look! Hog Heaven). After we replace the filter on the vacuum cleaner …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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