6/20/2011 Furniture Shopping

Bob wasn’t feeling really good when he got up this morning so we decided to not go on any sightseeing excursions today.

Towards the afternoon he started feeling better and suggested we go look for new chairs for the 5th wheel. So off we went to Rapid City. We visited five different furniture stores and sat in so many chairs it wasn’t funny.

With each store we went to we learned at little bit more from each salesperson as to what to look for as far as construction, material, mechanisms (we are recliner shopping) are concerned. With all this knowledge now we found the chairs we want. Actually, make that chair, singular. We’re going to replace our two pieces of junk that came with this 5th wheel with one well made chair and an end table and a lamp.

We found one chair that we both liked in the first store we went to. It was a recliner but it didn’t look like your typical huge, overstuffed reclining chair. It was simple and sleek and indeed did recline and was very comfortable. Unfortunately, it wasn’t a wall hugger which is what we want. It’s not off our short list though.

The next two stores had nothing that even remotely interested us and we didn’t spend long in either of those stores. However, the 4th store had a chair that Bob just fell in love with. I hated it. Don’t get me wrong, it was a beautiful chair but it was so darn big it would have sat a family of six comfortably! I had a hard time convincing Bob that the chair just wouldn’t fit with our small home. Finally, with the aid of a tape measure he saw the light.

In the fifth store we hit the jackpot. We had sat in a lot of chairs in this last store and nothing appealed to us until we were walking out of the store and in a living room suite that was set up we saw another recliner that wasn’t in the regular recliner chair department. Bob sat in and announced, “This is it! This is the one I want.” So we found a chair and I have my eye on an end table I saw in another store. We have to find a lamp and we’re set. The saleslady said it was new stock for the store and it could very well go on sale in the next few weeks. We’ll keep an eye on it and when it does we’ll pounce on it.