Basement Furniture

This past weekend we finally got rid of a piece of our past... our first furniture. We had a couch and love seat in our basement that we have had since before Kris and I were married. I remember buying it from the Boston Store back in 1993. We had it in our apartment, then moved it into the house 10 years ago. five year ago it got moved into the basement to serve as the "recreational" furniture for the girls. Well, it never really worked down there since we couldn't get it arranged just right because the room is so long and narrow. So this weekend, Kris and I moved it out.

One of Kris's co-workers is either fresh out of college, or in her final year, I forget which, and she and her roommate have a futon in their apartment, and that's it. So Kris told her we had a couch she could have if she could come and get it. Then after talking it over we decided that if she could fit it in her apartment, she could have the love seat too. The pattern is sort of old and out of date so we had them covered, and the upholstery was a bit strained, but that is why we had the furniture cover on them. I remember when I was that age in college, we were happy just to have furniture. In fact, we had a couch that didn't even have legs, we used empty returnable beer bottle cases as legs for it. So we were glad that we could help out. In fact, when Kris and I first moved in together in West Bend, we had people Kris worked with give us some of their old basement furniture until we could get by, so hopefully this will serve as a start to help her get going.

It only took us about a half an hour to get it out of the basement, which is about an hour less than it took us to get it down. I didn't think we would be able to get it (the big couch) up since getting it down we were scraping the walls when we moved it down there, and since then we have dry walled which loses us about 5-6 inches of room. And it took us two tries getting it up. We got it to the top and couldn't get it around the corner, so we had to take it back down, turn it around and then go back up. Even then we ended up scraping the woodwork so the I now have to sand and re-stain it. Just add it to the list of things to do.

So now we have a couple of end tables for the TV, and a couple of beanbag chairs down there for the girls and that is it, well except for the treadmill and the girls' computer. So any help with suggestions for decorating are welcome. We think we may have found something we can decorate around, but then again we thought we'd be able decorate around the old furniture.