Growing up and buying our first couch from SOMA Sofa in San Francisco

Posted By Hup | April 13, 2009

Some people see buying a couch as just that — buying a couch. I would guess that it’s probably something that most people do before they hit the age of 25 or so, although it took me until the ripe, old age of 29 to finally cave in and buy a ‘real one’. I say ‘real one’ because I’ve owned (and borrowed) several couches in my lifetime, but the truth is each one of them were never even close to being new and none of them have ever cost me more than $100. They have made up of either rag-tag groups of hand-me-downs from friends, dorm rooms and dumpsters or leftovers that the person renting the place before me didn’t really feel like dealing with. Whether it was an older brother or sister or just someone who had decided to move out of the place that I was moving into, their growing up and moving on was always to my benefit and hey, I was always cool with that.

Even when Stephanie and I packed up and moved out here to California nearly a year ago we ended up buying the couch that the person before us was leaving in the cottage. It was actually part of a $250 package that included a wicker hamper, a sweet toaster oven, a TV with a stand and of course a 20 year-old floral print couch that came with a maroon cover and a surprisingly comfy pull-out bed. The only thing that didn’t make it to our new place here in San Francisco was the couch, which actually ended up fitting nicely into our friends living room down the street over at the Homer House. A handed down hand-me-down if you will (and the circle of life continues).

I think that they now honestly have a couch for every single person that lives in the Homer House (and that’s 8 people!).

So anyways, the fact that Stephanie and I have decided to buy a couch together means first that we (and Nic + friends) will be lounging in comfort once it makes it way into our ridiculously large living room, which will be a good thing considering that up until now all 3 of us have been crashing and hanging out on the window sill cushion, which is the only comfortable place to sit at the moment. (If you don’t believe me, just check out how all 3 of us fell asleep the first night that we stayed the night together up in SF):

Believe if or not, that thing is super comfy

Secondly, the fact that we’re buying the couch together also signifies that there is some major commitment to our relationship. If you think about it, what says ‘I love you’ more than buying a nice piece of furniture together? I guess that some would say the fact that I proposed to Stephanie and gave her an engagement ring and all that stuff has commitment written all it, but to me nothing says I’m sticking with you for the long haul like the purchase of a brand-new, stylish sofa sectional.

We decided to buy the couch from a fun and funky furniture shop called SOMA Sofa that’s a few blocks away from where we live now. It is an amazing store that’s full of the most wild and creative furniture that you’ve ever seen and even though the particular couch that we ended up buying doesn’t necessarily look like it came off the set of BeetleJuice like some other the other stuff they had, it’s still modern-looking, stylish and of course, comfortable (which I love and Stephanie could really care less about). The furniture selection was great and the owners were really cool, so we decided that it was the place for us.

Here’s the style of couch that we decided to go with — it’s called the Benson. If you’re ever up in our neck of the woods in San Francisco be sure to hit us up so that you can stop by and test it out for yourself.

Imagine this in a dark gray color with really funky green pillows

Have you ever bought yourself some brand-spankin’ new furniture? How did it go? I’d love to hear some of your stories.

Filed Under SOMA Shack, relationship stuff, san francisco

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6 Talkies! to “Growing up and buying our first couch from SOMA Sofa in San Francisco”

Holly Gauper on April 13th, 2009 11:59 pm

I love the new couch! gosh gray with green is so in right now, well done!

I cannot wait to have a huge couch like that someday, how exciting. Please don’t ever get a rug like that one in the photo though, that is painful to look at. A real zebra rug should certainly be in your future.
Adam Jackson on April 14th, 2009 10:47 am

Actually, Laura and I were considering going to that place. We walked past it one night at like 10PM and stared in the window for a few minutes. SWEET! I’m glad you found a good couch.

In all honesty, a standard fullsize couch takes up 30% of our studio apartment so….. I’ll just keep that place in mind for now.
Kathy on April 14th, 2009 2:50 pm

that couch looks pretttttttttttty amazing. nice score guys! I can envision myself curled up on it after a night out at Bubble Lounge :p
Talking Budgie on April 15th, 2009 3:43 am

Now THAT is a couch…
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