I ordered my Sofa!! And a Chaise!!

I'm so excited! I ordered my sofa and a chaise today! I took my mom with me just to give myself piece of mind that I'm buying good furniture and I put the orders in! 

So this is what I got! The Lauren Sofa from Bowring!! I ordered the cashmere fabric in the "buckwheat" colour! 

This sofa is absolutely elegant, luxurious and is made to order right here in Canada! I'm all for supporting the North American economy and the frame of this sofa is Canadian maple!


I also ordered this chaise in a solid black - I'm NOT a fan of floral! 

It is really comfortable! It's going to take about 6 weeks for it to be made. My sofa takes about 4-6 weeks, but could be ready earlier *cross your fingers*!! I'm going to be painting and getting my room ready first and then the living room. 

I also have the ottoman with trays that will function as a coffee table: 

Since my chair and ottoman are black, rather than going with a black rug and drapes I'm probably going to get a grey shag rug and matching shade drapes. 

I also need to get a standing lamp, but I'm going to get a white shaded lamp to get the most light. 

I haven't found a standing lamp yet and I also need accent pillows and a throw. I'm torn between whether or not I want to get Zebra print pillows and a throw or a solid dark purple.... decisions decisions.... 

Are there any suggestions out there? Zebra print or purple?? 

I could keep the purple for my bedroom and have the zebra in the living room... or just keep the zebra print to kitchen accents like the tray that I bought and some zebra print wine glasses! 

And the Ottoman will be..... And I need a sofa bed!!

Duh duh da da.....The one from Costco! Even though I have to order it online and cannot check it out in the store, it is by far the best option I have found! 

Now I just need to find the perfect couch for this ottoman! 

The challenge is that I really want a couch with a chaise however I do need a sofa bed for when people stay over. 

I didn't realize until tonight when I was flipping through the ikea catalogue for storage inspiration that chaise sofa beds exist! 

There is this one from Ikea but the colour selection is blasé. I could always recover it if I can't find anything better, but I'm just not sure an ikea couch will really hold up all that well..... 

The fact that it folds out into a bed is perfect - look! That is exactly what I need and I really would love to have a chaise! 

 Now if it only came in black or grey it would be perfect! I am however a bit skeptical about buying a couch from ikea, certain stuff is fine, but a whole couch? I'm just not that sure. Are there any opinions out there about ikea couches? Please share! 

I've looked in Sears and they have nothing that I like and I was just looking online at the Brick and everything that could be considered a chaise is a sectional which is way too massive to fit into a downtown condo! 

This is the only option I remotely like at Sears. It is a grey colour which is good because I want either grey or black, but I would prefer black because I want to paint the walls grey and the ottoman will be black. 

Another thing I have noticed is that the colour selection for these couches borders on terrible at every store! 

Neither Bombay nor Lay Z Boy have anything remotely close to what I'm looking for either, alas another needle in a haystack because I have an idea in my mind of what I want but no one has thought of it yet! 

I have also looked at Urban Barn, Ashley Furniture and a couple of other places to no avail, does anyone have any suggestions for the GTA? Please help!