Maybe it’s been made obvious over these past few years, but I have a lil’ bit of a sofa problem. Just a wee little problem. You know, just a small, minuscule, tiny, insignificant issue with obtaining sofas. No big thang. No real worries. No extremism. Nothing to call a specialist about. No deep rooted psychological pathologies.
Shut up.
I’m blaming The Boy…kind of. He and his less than design enthused friends have complained over and over that the sofas I buy are too low or too hard or too uncomfortable or too mid century or too whatever. In the comfy television watching den this debate has raged on and on while they sipped crappy beers and watched Nascar. Yes – NASCAR. In my home. The nerve.
Sharing my long unrequited love for chesterfields – Summer found the perfect little petite sofa and begrudgingly emailed it to me. I thought nothing could be more Boy pleasing than a deeply comfy and broken-in vintage chesterfield to sit on while watching manly things on the tube. He has yet to really wax lovingly about my thoughtful gift, but has taken the time to remark, “No more goddamn sofas. Aren’t you tired of moving sofas?”. NEVER.
The den is shifting into all brown town and getting a bit more masculine than I’d like. Now I just need some new art and new pillows and a new shelving unit and a new light and a new chair. Just a whole new room, no biggie.
Bowie likes it a whole bunch and he’s adorable, so therefore by the bylaws of adorable transference the sofa is now legally adorable. I called Iggy into the room to take some photos and add to the adorableness quotient, but once he rounded the corner and saw the camera and Bowie, he briefly sized up the situation and then turned heel and hopped back into bed to continue his nap. Iggy ain’t having none of our crap anymore. I don’t know how any of them put up with me.
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Sorry, but still, I am a big fan of the grey sofa. It’s perfection. And your dogs… I never cared for Chihuahuas, but your dogs are just ridicoulously adorable.
I love the grey sofa as well but also have inherited a huge soft spot for a well used Chesterfield from my mother. Is it comfy?
Tell the boy you are upgrading.
you know you need a new coffee table now, don’t you?
I can’t even keep up with what sofa you had in there any more. I had to go back to previous posts to see. I did really like the gray one. Hated the striped one. This one is very nice…but yep….there is way too much brown going on in that room now. But you love a new challenge…I can tell.
HHHmmmmmm, me don’t likee! Not so much.
Quite a change from the previous choices! I have to say I really love the gray one too, it really seemed to fit so well with your style.
Wow, the Brick House spring is going British !
This feels like a huge change seeping in….
It is a nice sofa and classic. Not my favourite though I have to say. I liked the grey especialy and the white one you had re-upholstered. After recently doing some work to the ‘shed’, attached to our house we now have a new little garden room on the back of the kitchen. So much love has gone into the detailing of the room that we have neglected the original living room. It is now a mass of brown. We have the same dilemma. Brown leather sofa, brown wood floors, doors and blinds and a very brown hide on the floor…what to do? Well I really just need to get my arse into gear and paint a wall and add some cushions and throws. I’m loving all your stuff and am envious at you thrifting ability. Chairs is my ‘thing’ but my hub recently ordered and received this sofa,
http://www.made.com/sofas/sean-dix-dowel-sofa-grey, which has to be said is pretty sweet and fits perfectly in the small space we have.
Changing up, will we ever be happy? Who knows…
Love your blog : )
shut uuuup! brown town, but i love it.
Am I the only one that likes this sofa- other than the obvious?
I’ve had a vintage chesterfield for almost a decade, and it’s the BEST SOFA EVER. It’s held up admirably against constant battering by a toddler, and it’s the most comfy seat in the house.
Keep it. But now you need a new coffee table… actually I have the perfect thing at my house. All you have to do is drive to Texas and pick it up.
As you said, no biggie.
Well, if you change your mind about it, you know I’ll take it. It looks tons better than the CL pictures.
I like it. Is it comfortable? It looks like a pain in the neck to move, but I like it.
That sofa is calling out for the Captain, and some chrome.
Liked the gray one better, as well.
NASCAR watchers “sip” their crappy beer? You are a very lucky woman!
down with brown!
Love the chesterfield. But Lindsay Lohan stalks me every time you post this room.
yeah, comfort is the prime motivator around here. we’re tv watchers, so what. we stopped buying vintage/mid century couches for that reason. that’s why we own the crate and barrel lounge sofa and oasis chair and i dare your nascar bro’s to not be comfortable in either. and i’ve had the couch for almost TWO YEARS which is insane for me.
but i do love this chesterfield of yours – i think it would be fun to go a whole different way in the den. big plants. layered rugs.books. and nascar.
I just wonder what you do wth the sofa when you switch them out? Can we expect to see them on Secrets of a Stylist?? Bowie is cute as ever.
I LOVE the gray sofa, but I really really like this leather one too. I think it fits the best with the rest of your room, and I like that it isn’t so obviously modern or mid-cent modern. Plus my husband would totally fight you for it.
I think you should bring back the burl coffee table with this guy…if you’re gonna keep it around for more than 20 minutes.
I wuv it! So what if its not the coolest midcentury knoll business. its dope. how exciting, now the room can go in a new direction. I agree with the above comment-you need a plant and a big awesome pot to put it in. fiddle leaf fig? new art! fun fun fun..
I love chesterfield sofas!! I’ve been on the hunt for one!! Jealous! I think it looks great, maybe heavy on the brown but nothing some art and textiles can’t solve…or you could dye one of your dogs…wouldn’t recommend that though!
I LOVE the Chesterfield sofa’s.
I would love to have THIS one.
Nice Find.
I’m a huge fan of Chesterfields, even though I usually skew more feminine and modern when it comes to sofas. It looks great in the room too! But you do need a new coffee table now.
love it. my favourite so far. i just sold my chesterfield loveseat 6 months ago to make room for baby. damn, i miss that sofa.
Love this couch! so much! It is perfection… but sadly its true, the coffee table no longer goes…
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too much man stuff…add some color quick!
HA! Is there a mirrored or chrome coke table that’s probably gonna slide in here next….?
didn’t you have a chrome or brass and glass coffee table at some point? something with bling would lighten the room up.
AND where did the striped couch go? I still CRAVE it!
…maybe dripping in tigerblood?
Wow…thats alotta brown! I miss the grey sofa.
OH NO! What is happening there? First the disgusting POUF, now this, this, this … THING.
Frankly I liked the Danish Sofa with the grey fabric and the teak best, seems like ages ago. It’s sort of funny though, with the Lounge Chair and the Brown Hideousness you could go for a very masculine English Library Look, which would be so at odds with the rest of the place. I vote for a combination of The Captain, The Lady In Red and that creepy dog picture hung symmetricly. What absurd fun!
When your ready to sell, Im ready to buy.
I do like the sofa. But it does make the chair, the ottomanthingie and the coffeetable look ‘off’. Your combo of fab-stylish-design-old-thingies kinda went sliding over to just plain old-thingies. Or.. old-brown-thingies.
Add me to the list of possible buyers if you move on. I need this couch. Badly.
I do like that you’re going in a different direction in the den though. The whole house is done in a similar style, so it makes sense to me to have one room be a bit more masculine. I like the couch and now the poof fits in with it. Maybe a brass coffee table, some plants, and new artwork, and it could be pretty amazing. I trust your taste and I’m sure you have a plan for this!
Love the chesterfield. It looks super comfortable.I agree a little too brown in the room, but you can fix that easily with your talent and your wonderful stash of items to choose from.
I’d love to see a picture of where you store all your items you aren’t using. I’m imagining a sea of mid-century modern treasures!
Whoa, people be hating on the sofa! I’m digging the studious/den-like look. Actually, it would totally fit in at that bar Emily’s thing was at on Saturday, no?
* T H U D *
I just passed out from beauty.
Yeah, you need to work out more of a British Invasion look here to do Chester justice.
Dark wall.
Dead animal (not Bowie).
Navy blue.
Brass.
Dude, I didn’t know everyone wanted a Chesterfield. I have to stop sending them to you. Like the sexy slate blue one. I just sent you. For “Jules”. Damn. No more personal shopping services
Ohhhh! Steal Emily’s old Swedish flag for the wall above Chester! Yes!
Or this:
http://cgi.ebay.com/Very-Rare-Vintage-RED-CROSS-FLAG-2×3-STORM-KING-MIB-/300531412538?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item45f9116e3a
I just emailed Jules that sofa. She better buy the shit out if it. It’s perfect!
I know stuff is too brown. Gimme a little but of time. I do not control what the thrifting gods giveth. The sofa is super comfy though. Ive been super sick and convalescing on it for a week.
So much LEATHA. Please take this in the best possible way because I really do think you’re amazing but the sofa in that room made me think of this scene from Ace Ventura: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRMvvds6MpM
OMG, I love this one.
Definitely getting masculine. But, surprisingly, I’m a dude, so I like that.
Morgan, I love the sofa! Sofa’s can be tricky, because it is the only place that function triumphs form. But Chester (that’s what i call him, original, I know) is Bad ass. If he meets both then that sucker should stay! Is Morgan’s style possibly evolving?
I want a marble tulip coffee table. No brass no glass.
OHHHH blowing your mind. Now I will never ever find one.
Also, a Milo Baughman chair in sweet as navy velvet and a danish bookcase with a big old black potence lamp and a bigger lighter/whiter cowhide.
Now I just need a TON of money.
Bring the striped one in there… where is that sucker?
I luuuuuv Chesterfields. Did you seriously find this for less than $100? I think I’m in the minority, but I say love love LOVE to the sofa, but move the Eames chair elsewhere (they are in EVERY house tour after all). The Cheterfield looks so lux, simple and makes me feel like a jack and coke and horse racing. Stay with this one. It’s the most keeper-riffic of them all.
If you guys like the old gray sofa I got it from here: http://www.modernchairrental.com/index-23c-27.html
Get some.
love your plan. what does the grey hide & womb chair look like switched with the brindle hide & eames chair?
don’t you think the tufted leather would look killer in the living room with that big reindeer hide thrown on top and a giant set of moose antlers above the fireplace??
the direction your going is genius. love it.
girl, check yourself right at the door.
i love that sofa. it’s the hotness. if you didn’t have a new sofa every week i wouldn’t have anything to look forward to.
l-ove
…if I could sit on any one of your sofas I would be happy to watch nascar …or even soccer.
…well except that strange stripy one :/ didn’t like that.
but what did you do with all the other couches and coffee tables? do you always resell your stuff right after you replaced it? or put it all in your garage?
Would you two stop talking about my blue sofa?! Someone’s going to buy it before I get there and I’ll blame the two of you.
why does everyone always hate on masculine decor choices? WTF!? are a bunch of feminists reading this blog, or what!? i love masculine rooms and i am learning to love practical more and more every day. i love the couch and the brown too.
to satisfy everyone’s need for more feminine touches in this newly styled penis den, why don’t you add pink floral curtains and an anne geddes picture of babies dressed as cabbages? Then, light some scented candles and let the estrogen permeate.
I love your new old Chesterfield! And I fully support your sofa problem, as I am still LOVING the white sofa http://www.the-brick-house.com/2009/05/new-couch.html I acquired from you…and so do our friends.
Oh, Kim! I want to see a pic of it in your pad. I miss that beast.
I love that sofa!
no. you get a cat, it will piss on it.
me too.
The old one was so much better!!! It’s hard to top that one as it fit so well into your space. I do love your blog and since I stumbled up on it check it very often.
Seriously. I love masculine rooms, being male myself. However I don’t think that mid-century modern is particularilly femine.
The chesterfield however is pre-modern and so very English – somehow I think, it doesn’t work in the California Brick House.
If comfort is your prime objective, I think much better looking and probaly even more comfy than the chesterfield would be the Toot sofa by Piero Lissoni for Cassina (though it’s from 2009 it looks totally seventies) or the low Corbusier sofas with the new soft stuffing (also Cassina). Very comfy are also the de Sede sofas from Switzerland and don’t look feminine at all, though they are probaly too modern for your place. But have a look at the absolutely funky DS-1025.
I love the sofa, but not in your house. I think Emily might be rubbing off on you. That said, I can’t wait to see what you do next.
LOVE it, dude, now what? the only thing that can replace this is the togo…
I’m loving it (wait, did I just quote a McDonald’s commercial, there?).
I love this sofa!
Break your trad mcm habit some and mix that sh&t up!
Morgan, I want to send you a photo, but I really need some end tables before I send photos (I sold mine) and maybe a rug…I do think you would love the Missoni throw that has made it’s home there.
There is something about the left arm of that sofa that drives my cat wild. She purrs, rubs, and licks(?!) it.
shut your face. i’m so jealous. wanna sell it to me? c’mon every boy and their dad and their son wants this.
This sofa is FAB – I have an old Chesterfield that is not nearly as nice as this one and I love it. It mixes with antiques, mcm and contemporary and looks great all the time. Don’t get rid of it – this piece is a keeper! I’m getting tired of all the mcm – it’s all over the interwebs, which tells me that it’s time has come and is ready to go. You’ll be on the next wave of deliciousness with this piece.
damn, these peeps got some strong opinions! you’ve created an army Morgan:) well done!
There is no way the menfolk could complain about that sofa…it looks quite hardy. And its gorgeous!
Huge fan of the couch.
Huger fan of the dog.
Love your blog, and the chester, and Iggy and Bowie, and you of course!
keep on bringin it girl!
THIS SOFA IS AMAZING
Have you gotten any sleep since brown town?
i am such a dork. but when i read your title i wanted to sing… won’t you take me to… funky brooooown!!!! all soul-lishus like. i want to come over and sit on it and hope that one of your adorable baby dear dogs snuggles up with me.
check out http://www.highglossmagazine.com pages – 52 to 54….
Serge Mouille lamp…
i’m a man, baby, & i love the Chester the chesterfield sofa.
good eye(s).
I have recently acquired a very similar sofa, and you are making me feel better about it. And how is this for brown overload? We are painting the walls a dark brown! I’m actually hoping it will lessen the impact of the sofa and make the other furniture pop out.
INCREDIBLE. But seriously, did you follow your rule and get this for $100 or less?? Love this sofa. I’ve been looking for a cream colored one.
Love. I have a 1970′s chesterfield-style in vinyl and it is the greatest thing ever. So comfy.
But I wish I hadn’t found some of the things I’ve unearthed from its depths. Can’t un-see it. And I can’t even bring myself to type it. Shudder. Good thing it’s vinyl. I gave it a good wipe down.
You’ve just purchased my dream sofa. Please don’t tell me all about how cheap it was, that would kill me.
I just found your blog as I was searching for other thrifting bloggers- I know I am way late finding your blog but I am SO GLAD I did. I am great at thrifting clothing, but I am learning so much from you about thrifting home stuff- you’ve made me love brass everything and I am really inspired by your use of sheepskins. That will be happening in my place.
Can you tell me where Summer found this couch?
I am also wondering about the Chesterfield that you posted on your “things you left behind” post. I recently found a leather couch that I love at a used store, but it’s not in great shape. If you have time, can you recommend resources/suggestions for cleaning up old leather?
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