Furniture Hunting

A couple Saturdays ago, Craig and I looked all over the Bloomington area for some furniture. It was the weekend before students came back to campus, so there were some pretty great deals going on!  Nobody was eager to negotiate a lower price, but I think the sale prices were pretty good to begin with.  We found this chair (above) and really like it.  We asked about getting some pillows out of the same material.  The sales lady looked up the information and quoted us the price of about $100-150 per pillow!!  Wow!  So we didn't buy any pillows...or the chair.  We still really like it, but have decided to wait for now. 



Our next stop was Longs Landing.  This place looks HORRIBLE from the outside!



This is the roof of the place!!!  How can that be safe?  This picture actually doesn't do it justice.



We were told the used furniture was upstairs... we should have known from the stairs not to go up there!





This picture also doesn't do the floor justice.  I was seriously walking with my hands out to my sides, expecting at any moment to fall through the floor.  I'm pretty sure I got asthma and lung cancer while I was up there.  Not only do they sell used furniture, but all the embedded smells and stains that come on the orange 1970s couches!



This is actually the piece of furniture that we bought from Long's Landing.  We also bought 2 additional stools to go under the island.  We had heard of this particular store from when we walked through some homes this spring at the Parade of Homes.  Some of the homes were furnished by Longs Landing.  It was a great place to buy a table, but I would be worried about buying any permeable materials.



On to the next place!  We visited Thompson's furniture and they had huge selection.  Craig really liked this chair.  It has a neat look to it and is actually very sturdy and comfortable!  I'm not sure that it goes with the look we are going for...whatever that is!



This is the love seat that we picked out!!  We also got a couch to match.  It has that look that the color is black, but really in the light - it is brown.  It looks really good with our floors!  I love having a place to relax.  They delivered the couch with some scratches at the bottom, but came back this week and fixed them.  They just pulled the extra material down, added a few million staples, and it looks good as new.



Ty Pennington reeeaaalllly wanted us to buy this table, but he was just asking too much for it!  It was so so so cute, especially with the mirror to match.



This is another couch we considered...cute but not quite right.
I hope you have enjoyed some of the highlights from our furniture shopping adventure!