Everyone loves comfortable furniture. Everyone loves nice furniture. And then there are those people who just generally love furniture in general. They spend their Sunday afternoons flipping through the Crate & Barrel catalog, or the Ikea catalog, or watching shows like Design on a Dime, or Top Design.
Well, while on occasion I have spent a lovely afternoon with an Ikea or Crate & Barrel catalog on my lap, there is one piece of furniture that has captured the hearts of many.
A couch.
The story of this couch is quite remarkable. Born of the fantastic website “craigslist” this couch came into our lives almost randomly. In the beginning, it was never really seen as anything more than somewhere to sit. Couches have to be in living rooms otherwise there is no real way to “live” in said room. And so the couch was purchased and set up in a beautiful apartment in West Los Angeles dubbed “HQ.”
The way “HQ” came to be is a story to be told another time. As for the couch, with its future a bit uncertain came into our home, and performed its job quite well by providing many seats for many, many friends and family. Let me just say, this couch is probably the most comfortable couch you will ever meet. It hugs you, invites you to sit, lay, and relax on it as long as you’d like. But also in many cases longer than you anticipated because of its incredibly high level of comfort.
This brown wonder has become a part of our lives. It has been there for many people when they have no where else to sleep. It has been there whenever it has been called upon to sink into in times of exhaustion. It has been climbed on, laid on, sat on, hugged, fell upon, etcetera. But moreover, it has become a staple in not just our everyday lives because we live with it, at this point, we do not know how to live without it.
The couch never complains when there are way too many people on it than it was made for, or when there’s crumbs that fall into its cracks, or when it’s too loud in the apartment, or when drunk people fall all over it. The couch never asks questions, or judges, or doubts anyone. And granted it is an inanimate object, the couch has made all the difference in making an apartment a home, making strangers friends, and simply making everyone more comfortable.
We love you couch. Never change.
About Me
- CatCuadrado
- She thought that with a pen and paper in hand she just might be able to save the world. That maybe her words would reach someone and then they just might change their mind about suicide or something. If she could just compile all her thoughts and tell the world the life stories she knew, maybe people would want to listen. But when reality set in she knew that people didn’t read anymore, or at least not nearly enough. And people didn’t look to books for inspiration unless it becomes a huge influential hit. And the chances of her attaining that were pretty slim. She wrote anyway. Because while it would be great to save the world with a pen and paper, she had a hard enough time saving herself. So maybe if she remembered it all and wrote it all down it would start to make a more sense. If she couldn’t save the world, the least she could do was entertain it.
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This said couch redefined HQ that was, and made it HQ that is and will always be. For from the point of it's induction, it became certain that what we thought of as home will never be the same again.
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