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New furniture and extra room for guests

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I don’t have much spare time these days, but when I do have the time I occasionally visit online stores looking for furniture that might suit our house when we finally have all of our renovations finished.

Right now I’m thinking of what kind of furniture to get for our basement when we are finished renovating it. I’m not sure we’ll have room but I’d like to have a spare bedroom down there. Most definitely it will be a recreation room with a TV and at the very least a pull out couch for guests or if I ever get back to work, a place that I could sleep that would be cool during the day after I’ve done a night shift.

One of the sites I’m looking at right now is Century furniture. They have a very nice selection of household furnishings. Heck … I might even get a new couch for our living room and put our current couches and recycling chair in the basement. That could work too. Well except for the fact that our current living room couches are not pull out couches.

After living in such a small apartment for some many years and having sleep over guests drop by all the time I like having spare rooms (we do now) and if possible a pull out couch. The more comfortable sleeping room the better. I don’t like sleeping on the floor when I visit someones house – I will if I have to of course, so why should my guests?

Do you have a spare room or do you have a pull out couch that comes in handy when you have guests?





Teak furniture for outdoors

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Don’t you just love teak outdoor furniture? We have a beautiful reclaimed teak wood table that we use in our garden each summer.

Teak is so heavy! The table that we have is maybe 2.5 to 3 feet in length – the top is an irregular shape so it’s hard to give an exact measurement – and I’d say 2.5 feet in height but it must weigh well over 100 pounds.

I oil it with danish teak oil each year because it does get a weathered look by the end of summer. The oil restores the table top and makes the wood look like new. You know when wood is wet and you can see all the patterns in it? That’s what happens when I oil it. The fine colors of the wood grain.

I love that table! I might even look for another piece to complement the teak table we have.

Still trying to figure out our basement reno

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Have you ever redecorated your home? If you have you’ll know that it’s both a joy and a pain in the butt to pick out new home furniture. I’ve been spending what little free time I have looking at furniture related websites, or pouring through catalog’s trying to find the perfect furniture for our basement when we finish our remodeling job.


We have a couch in the basement now that I’d like to keep. It’s a sectional with two captains chair that have nice leg rest, and the longer part of the couch pulls out into a double bed. The double bed is of course the real reason why I’d like to keep the couch.

We do have two spare bedrooms upstairs, but we are hoping to have a child. So, if that works out, at most we’ll have one spare bedroom. It’s always nice to have extra space for people to sleep if they come to visit and we do tend to have a lot of visitors.

So I’m trying to plan our basement reno so that the main part of the basement will be like a den, but because of the pullout couch it could double as a temporary bedroom. When we had boarders I had been thinking about renovating the basement and sectioning off one small part of our tiny basement to use as a bedroom but I think I’ll keep the space as open as possible.

My other idea is to perhaps get a Murphy bed. Murphy beds are ones that fold up into the wall and can look like a nice storage cabinet when not in use. I think I’d have to get a sideways model though if we went that route because our basement ceiling is very low and I don’t think a standing regular murphy bed would work down there at all.

See … planning on refurnishing a room can be interesting … but when you have lots of different ideas about how a room could be used it can take up a lot of your time!

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