Getting A New Sofa!!!

We finally have our own home! As a young couple, we were hesitant about purchasing our first home, especially because of the ever-increasing prices of houses these days. Although, after being shown various articles covering the benefits of renting vs purchasing, as well as this article published as to why you don’t wait to get on the property ladder we thought it best to purchase our home now, otherwise we could be renting for the foreseeable future. It’s so exciting to look through all the available properties, whether you’re looking into charleston, sc real estate or elsewhere – choosing the perfect location is integral to choosing the perfect home and Charleston is certainly proving popular amongst prospective homeowners. One of the main reasons we were worried was because our friends tried to buy a house not that long ago and their loan application was rejected because they didn’t have an amazing credit history. However, they were still able to get their own place. They found a few different ways online to build credit and, eventually, they had a loan and their own place. Luckily, that didn’t happen to us, but you never know! Anyway, we have a home! Let’s talk about decorations…

Friends, I am SO stinkin excited that we are finally in the process of getting a new sofa! Our journey of sofas has been a long one. It started with a sofa from Pruitts Furniture {yep- you read that right!} that was in their ‘defective pile’. It was everything you imagine a brown microfiber sofa to be. Then we went and got a gingham style one off of Craigslist when we first moved in to our first house. We realized that it went with approximately 2% of our other decor, so it didn’t last long. Then we had the genius idea to get a classic white sofa from Ikea. While it looked nice, those slipcovers stayed white for about 5 minutes with having our two dogs. Then we got the sofa we are currently still using. Its from Copenhagen. We bought it off of our friends, and it has been awesome for the past 4 1/2 years.

But now, oh now we are getting our dream sofa! We were able to completely customize this baby, down to the very last detail!

We searched forever online to find exactly what we were looking for, and when nothing came up {under $15,000 at least!} we knew we needed to find a custom sofa company to get what we wanted. We found Monarch Sofas and have been in love with them ever since!

While they may be completely annoyed with my 2.5 billion emails back and forth, they have never once showed it {thank you Eva, Cat, and Catie!}. We were able to choose the size, shape, materials, filling, legs, everything. It has been so fun being able to be creative with something that we know we will not only use daily, but love for years and years to come.

This is the sofa we went with, before all the modifications we made. We love the look of the Kenzie!

We still have about 1 1/2 months till we get it, but I will keep you guys posted on the progress, and how we went about choosing all the details! So excited!