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darkemeralds ([personal profile] darkemeralds) wrote2015-02-02 10:24 pm
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6/30: Hotel Dark Em

I think I'm gonna buy a new couch.

I've never had any kind of guest accommodation in this house. The living room is too cramped for a traditional sofa bed, and there's just the one bedroom. In the past, visitors have slept on a twin mattress on the living room floor, on my undersized couch (she was unusually small), and in a tent in my side yard (sorry, sis!). Others have been directed to moderate hotels not too far from here.

I think IKEA has come to my rescue at last with a sofa-bed that will fit, if a bit massively, into this space.



It's pink.

IKEA pink sectional sofa bed


Inasmuch as the living room walls are black

black living room wall with a vase of tulips in front of it


and I already have a colorful rug

Multi-colored area rug in abstract design


and a purple armchair

purple velvet armchair


then why not go with these turquoise side tables that are so cute and match parts of the rug

A small bright turquoise side table with a drawer


...so that my living room becomes the very opposite of my severely stark-white bedroom.

It'll be the Anti-Chamber!

portion of a floorplan showing a colorful living room mostly occupied by a big pink corner sofa


With the addition of a curtain (how 'bout orange?) there between the front door and the pink couch, it can become a guest bedroom...ish, as the British say. And so much cheaper than adding a room.