Drool worthy: The Ekornes Stressless Collection

 

It’s been nearly a year since Snickers annihilated my beloved red couches. I’m still not over the trauma! And it’s been a year of sitting in beautiful yet uncomfortable replacement couches. Never, never buy a couch without sitting in it first. If the store will let you move in for a weekend, all the better. Never, unless your cat annihilates your  beloved couches and you need an immediate replacement and you only have credit on such short notice. Otherwise, sit. Sit long and hard and critically! Beauty be damned, people, it’s about FUNCTION. My backside cannot stress this enough. Ahem.

The upside is that I spend less time sitting on these miserable lumps. That has to be good thing considering the lecture I got from the scale yesterday. Oh. My. (Total aside, good thing I worked out before I weighed myself. We were this close to a major meltdown; because you know if I’m melting down, I’m bringing you people along)

The downside is that when I do want to sit down, I’ve already spent the day standing at an ironing board, sitting in a folding chair at my computer, and sitting in what has to be the most uncomfortable chair to sew. Teach me to keep old furniture and reuse it in ways never intended.  By the end of the day I’m ready to sit down on something comfy, warm, inviting—something not my couches. Put up my feet, sip a cup of tea, and watch a few Tivo episodes of Frasier. 

Don’t get me wrong, they beat the floor. I can at least get off the couch without the use of a crane. But they are remarkably unsquishy. That is a word, for the record. Squishy applies to my logic, too–which is how I got to these drool worthy pieces by Ekornes. 

See, while sitting in my unsquishy couches, watching reruns of Frasier, I’ve been drooling over the Eames chair and ottoman on the set. You know, that fantastic chair that has been relegated to the background in order to make room for Martin’s hideous lazy-boy. That chair. At least five times an episode I look over at IZ, sitting on the matching unsquishy couch, and say, “I love that chair.”  

So, you can imagine the squealing involved when IZ sent me a link to these couches. Needless to say, I’m now drooling on my computer keyboard. You can pick your color of leather and wood bases not to mention a half dozen different styles!—and even the seats of the couches recline. They are “stressless”. I’m going to ignore the fact that they’ve emblazoned that tagline on the actual chairs because it’s kinda hard not to love a chair that promises to be squishy and stressless.

I could use less stress, couldn’t you?