Furniture Reporter

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Having a great place to sit and relax is important.  It is doubly so when you are an avid reader.  Having a great armchair is not just nice but nearly a requirement when you log hours sitting there reading.  The chair must be comfortable and able to support different positions since you are likely to shift.  For me, a chair must be stylish as well, not just pleasing to the seated but the onlooker, something that you can point out to visitors as being ‘the most comfortable chair’ without being ashamed of how our beloved chair looks.

That said, I would pick a chair in a color that will withstand many moves, spills and transcends style.  For me, I love a leather chair.  It seems timeless in a way that my taste in fabric is not.

This Manhattan Leather Armchair from Pottery Barn exemplifies what I am looking for.

I also found this delightful Mercer Leather Recliner from Ballard Designs.  You can get this chair leather or upholstered.

Overstock.com has the Colby Coffee Chaise, for those who want to relax in a chaise while they read.

Homedecorators.com has these three chairs which would be welcome additions to any reading room.

For a reading chair, recliners and ottomans are a great extra, since you will be sitting cozily in your chair for a while.  If one doesn’t come with your chair you can get a separate ottoman, trunk or bench that would be a stunning accessory for your chair.

Delivery today of our stove (finally! — I have been cooking dinners with two microwaves and a toaster oven!) and the sofa/loveseat we found Friday at a local furniture outlet. Also a new metal roof is going on our porch! 

All while I’m at work! It’s very nice having the father in law in town as he’s able to handle deliveries, etc. while we’re both out — a luxury we won’t have for long!

I am dying to post photos of our various new exploits — light fixtures we’ve put up in two rooms, the new cabinet and shelf he built in the kitchen, etc. but the internet at home (which we’re currently borrowing from our neighbors, ssh) is spotty and I don’t want to try uploading pictures with it just yet. 

Soon!

Dear Reader,

Halloween has come early throughout most of eastern Ferntree Gully, in the form of a traditional council-organised Trick and Treat ceremony known as “Hard Waste”.

This is where we bogans take all our old crap, arrange it thoughtfully upon the nature strip, and then cruise around the neighbourhood looking at everyone else’s old crap to see if there’s anything there we want to take home.

It’s sort of like a car boot sale, but without the car boot, and without the sale.

There are all sorts of great things you can pick up during Hard Waste. Exercise bikes with only 17km on the odometer, classic 1950s wardrobes with mirrors intact, genuine CopperArt three-tiered planters… the list goes on.

This year, though, the most fashionable item of old crap to be seen putting out on your nature strip was… the lounge suite.

I felt rather bad that we didn’t have an old crap lounge suite to toss out for the neighbour bogans to admire.

Rather bad.

All over eastern Ferntree Gully, nature strips had been transformed into 70s bachelor pads. Ugly lounges were arranged in enticing patterns, the sort of chick-magnet lounges arranged in the sort of alluring chick-hypnotising patterns that, if accompanied by a shag pile carpet and lava lamp, would have had crocheted pantsuits dropping to the floor left right and centre.

In the 70s.

Now, though, they were just sad, worn out old hulks. With some rather embarrassing stains.

But the bogan pride was still there. The lounges weren’t just left to fill up with water in the October rains; they were regularly adjusted on cloudy days so that the rainwater would be kept out of their inner workings.

No point ruining a perfectly crap lounge suite just because you’re throwing it away.

Plus, a disturbing number of these lounges disappear long before the council trucks come to take them away. Covetous bogan neighbours come with Toyota Hiluxes, Holden Rodeos, and the obligatory Four Wheel Can’t Drives with trailers attached, and drive right up onto the nature strip sporting one of the better looking lounge suites. Then they load up the lounge and take it away, destined to end up in a garage somewhere, a garage done up as a male retreat.

The male retreat is an essential part of bogan culture, providing a place to get away from the little woman, watch some sport on the old Hard Waste-sourced TV (that still works on most channels!) and suck some piss with your mates, without having to worry about drink coasters.

But more on the bogan pride we have for our sheds another time…

Yours,
Gullybogan

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