Summer living room.

Well I had been wanting a sleeper sofa for downstairs for summer sleeping and heat. After last summer we discovered there were a few (less than 6 days total) days that the heat was miserable in the house and there was little relief with fans and sleeping upstairs was something you put off until about 10:30 so that temps would cool down. AND sleeping with open windows is tough on an active walking road. I swear they would stop right under my window and chat. Ugh. The downstairs windows are in the back and side yards so hopefully the location will help with noise AND being below ground may help as well.

So the sofa. I put a notice out on the Facebook market groups for this area searching for a sofa and gave a photo sample of what I was looking for. I was astounded by the folks who stated the obvious of “you can get one at IKEA. Well yeah. I understand that folks, I stated if folks were leaving and selling one similar to give me first “dibs”. THEN I was notified by someone that someone was offering me a free one!  Exactly the one I was looking for!  Sweet!!!  Then the realization that I had no way to transport it. Hum. Ok. Look up rentals. Yikes 150€. Hum. Makes it not worth it. So I thought I may as well put it out there in the same venues. Then someone offered to transport it for me 1/2 the money I would spend on a rental 50€. Sweet!!!

So we make arrangements and meet at the persons house. The gentleman with the full size truck shows and he works for MARFOREUR. That was surprising. He gave me a hard time about not recognizing him. Whoops!  Well in my defense I hadn’t met the man face to face. But still how horrifying. I need to get out more!!

Anyway. We made it to the house. Carried it downstairs. Fought through putting things back together. And Wahlah a summer sofa. I will have to do a steam clean in it, but it will do great for it’s purpose!!