The Empty Hole in Our Living Room

So this past Wednesday, I stayed at home eagerly awaiting our new couch we bought from the Roomstore two weeks ago. We have been using our old futon as a couch for the last four months and were extremely excited about getting a brand new comfy leather couch since our futon is extremely uncomfortable. To prepare for our new couch Kevin cleared the futon out of the living room and moved it into our office.

So the delivery men arrived around 10am on Wednesday to inform me they were here with our nice new couch. After about 15 minutes or so one of the men returned to inform me that the couch could not fit in the elevator or the stairway. I went down to see and I couldn't really argue with them seeing as we hadn't measured the height of the elevator, the stairs or our doorway. However, upon measuring it later Kevin and I both agreed we thought they actually could have made it fit up the stairs, but it probably wouldn't have fit through our narrow doorway. Alas, they took our beloved couch back and we were still charged with a restocking fee and delivery fee. (And resolving the couch drama took up our evening so I didn't go get to visit with friends and see 209 Live in Fells Point, which I had been looking forward to.)
While the stairs weren't technically our fault, the doorway would have been, so I guess we have learned our lesson. So now we are in search of a new couch to fill the big empty void in our living room where our new couch should have been. We don't want to go through the hassle of moving the futon in and out again so we are stuck watching TV in the green mushroom chair or on the floor with pillows. We actually fell asleep watching TV on the floor Thursday - upon waking up with a back ache - I can say we cannot WAIT to get a new couch...