The Furniture is Here!

In a previous post, I wrote about our experience picking out our furniture at Rooms To Go... do you know when that was? That was May 4th... almost 2 months ago. For 2 freaking months we've been without a place to sit or lay down in our home... until today.

We were actually running late to meet them, so when we got there the guys (and there were only two of them--- beastly) had pretty much already unloaded the truck. Within a few minutes, this is what we had.

We pretty much when from zero to sixty as far as furniture goes. It was a pretty good feeling... kind of like they delivered and Instant House.

The only thing we had them assemble and set up was the bedroom furniture... and it was pretty much so we could unpack this:

 Yes, our memory foam mattress. We had to unleash it for the world to enjoy... or for at least Marco to enjoy.

And here are a few shots of our bedroom furniture fully assembled.

And a very exciting picture of Nicole vs. Packing Plastic.

Best Place Ever: The Rooms To Go Outlet

Today we took another one of those huge grown up steps. We bought more furniture. Furniture that brings us a few steps closer to actually living in the house we've been painstakingly renovating.

The only pieces of huge furniture we really still needed we a dining room table, and a mattress. And since we had been there before, and saw really great prices on really great furniture, we decided to go back to the Rooms To Go Outlet in Norcross.

Since most everything we bought was on clearance, its hard to find links to it on the RTG website. But after a quick Google search, I found a few pictures of the exact items or similar.

Mike has had a pretty specific idea of the type of mattress he wants for a long time. This is of course his first house, which means that this is his first real adult mattress... the first mattress that he has a choice in, that isn't a hand-me-down, or cheap apartment mattress. Unfortunately, since his desired mattress, a Tempur-Pedic, is a million dollars (not, actually), we tried to find an alternative.


We sat on every bed in the mattress section, and kept coming back to the Simmons ComforPedic Loft Illumination Plush Drop Top.

Sleeping on this thing will be an epic experience.


Next, we got a dining room table. I wanted a counter-height table. Not sure why, but I did. All the ones they had there were pretty ugly, though. So that was a fail. We ended up find a really awesome alternative. I'm not sure of that the name of it is at Rooms To Go (its no longer on their website). But, I found the same table a local furniture store.

Our dining room table has a bench. How cool is that? Because we don't actually know. The cool-ness of said table will be determined in its application.


We also picked up something extra.

This is the Maddox Storage Bench. We have been looking for a storage bench for the end of our bed for awhile. This one was $100 OFF. Seriously. We couldn't pass it up. For the record, it is not perfect. The closing and opening mechanism is kind of off, but nothing we can't fix.

We decided since we have a truck now, we would just take all of our stuff home today. Our sofas and bedroom set are going to be delivered from the regular RTG store on Thursday.

Mike signing for our items.

Very exciting stuff. It's all in the garage, but still, very exciting.


For fun. Mike in the giant chair at the RTG Outlet.

Grown Ups Buy Furniture

Today we made the first grown up purchase of many to come... we bought new furniture for the new house.

We decided that the Rooms To Go route would be the best way to go for us. We actually have had all of our pieces picked out for a few months, but with the closing date fast approaching, it was time to make our wishlist a reality :-)

Besides the fact that the bundles at RTG make things really affordable, they are currently running two promotions: the "Buy the Room, Get the TV" promotion and their Spring Closeout Sale. We got to take advantage of both and ended up saving close to $1500 on the total.

For our sitting room, we went with the Wesley. Our package came with two chairs, a sofa, one end table and and ottoman. We swapped out the ottoman and end tables for the coffee table and end table from the Gifford Collection. Two chairs might seem strange now, but since this set will be in the low traffic living room, we figured it wouldn't be that odd in the long run. We will obviously have to grab some new pillows for this set, too-- because the ones that come with it are... just not our style.

The bedroom set that we decided to go with was the Caufield. For the past few months, we were pretty certain that we wanted the Whitmore... that is until we got to the store today and saw the price tag, in comparison with those around it. One such set was the Caufield. We decided to go with this one because of its functionality (it has several drawers and other neat little features that trumped the Whitmore).


And finally, we have the sectional we picked out for the living room. The room where the most ESPN/HGTV/Style watching will occur. The space is extremely awkward and doesnt fit a lot of furniture, so naturally this is the way to go. We kept the storage ottoman that came with this, and decided to pass on getting a TV (two TVs 15 feet away from each other seemed a little O.D.)


All in all we made out with 12 pieces of furniture and 2 TVs... more than enough to fill the house and make it feel like an instant home.

Another plus to RTG is that they will hold all of the furniture until the move-in date, then delilver it for a small fee.

First Grown Up purchase down, a million to go.