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Soooo... there hasn't been much news on here about what's going on in the living room... and that's because not a ton has been going on in there since our fireplace update . I need to take some "before" photos, even though they're more "during" photos - while the rug from the living room of our last apartment has made itself a new home in our bedroom, the furniture currently in there is the same as before for the most part.  Here's a little refresher from before we moved: Two love seats... lots of dark fake wood furniture...  I did the best that I could with what we each brought to the apartment together, and we made it work for two years.  I actually kind of liked it once I distracted from all the things I wasn't loving (black man couch... super duper modern everything...) Well, things are about to change... and SOON! We just bought THIS sofa from Pottery Barn a few weeks ago. It looks a bit dwarfed in this photo, but it's big.  Really ...

Nothing makes me feel like more of a grown up than making big purchases like buying a sofa.  NOTHING!  Holy heck - I'm turning 30 this year and buying a sofa and living with a boy! Big things are happening left and right, and this sofa decision is weighing heavily on my mind.  We have spent several weekends sitting on hundreds of sofas - some comfy but ugly, some pretty but uncomfortable, some big, some small... we are the Goldilocks of couch-hunting.  It's too soft, it's not soft enough - you should hear us bicker! I went into this whole process wanting a standard sofa... and have come away agreeing to a sectional.  Things are a-changin my friends!  I am putting comfort before aesthetics (to a point of course)!  In just a few weekends, I've gone from loathing the idea of a sectional, to welcoming it with open arms!  They are soooo comfortable, and shockingly enough, they make some pretty good looking ones now! One of our finalists is actually fro...