My $26 Pottery Barn Couch

Did you see that? Twenty six dollars for a Pottery Barn Couch!

Well... $26 net. Still totally awesome in my world - awesome enough to induce an inappropriate burst of song or an ill-timed jig.

It gets even better though:

... it's slipcovered.

... and it's white(ish).

Be still my impractical furniture loving heart.
(Except it's not really impractical because helloooooo, you can wash it.)

So here's how the miracle went down. There's a regional store which I'm sure lots of you have heard of since 95% of home/craft bloggers apparently live in Utah where the store is based... it's called DownEast.They have lots of fabulous furniture, accessories, linens, etc. from fabulous stores like Z Gallerie and Pottery Barn. There are plenty of scratch and dent type things, and oodles of monogrammed backpacks and stockings... some of which feature totally average names, lots of which are more bizarre exotic names like "Jojoelas" or "Saffron" -- eccentric wealthy people buying their cats PB velvet stockings, maybe?

(My apologies to anyone named Jojoelas.)

...aaaand then there are totally normal things, like floor models or overstocks or things with flaws so minor they're unnoticeable or I have no idea what they are besides normal. They're normal. And they're less expensive. 

I like to frequent DownEast as a window shopper, just 'cause it's fun. And I'm apparently a bit of a retail masochist. I tend to want a whole bunch of things.

So I was driving home from running an errand around the turn of the year and an invisible force guided my car into the DownEast parking lot. Fate? A twitchy right arm? We'll never know. I walked in to see that all clearanced home items were on special for an extra 30% off over the weekend. That was enough to initiate a little impromptu  perusing... little did I know that one of the couches I had been admiring from afar during my occasional visits to the store was on clearance. 

I started having a panic attack while I did the math in my head. The couch, my couch, was on clearance for $649 - and after the extra 30% off, the price would drop to $454. Sales tax and delivery brought it to just $526. For a PB couch. In perfect condition. 

In order to bring my couch home I'd have to sell our 4-year old sectional sofa. Let me be perfectly clear: I was totally okay with that. Oodles of okayness happening in this general vicinity. I didn't love the sectional and it had originally been purchased for the larger basement family room of our last home in Salt Lake City, so it didn't even really fit into my narrow Idaho rooms.

I sold the sectional this week for $500, which brought our net out of pocket cost for the new couch to $26. Twenty-six dollars. Pinch me. Did I mention that this exact sofa at PB, in the exact fabric, is $1,699 regular price? What's that sound? Oh, oh yes... it's the couch angel chorus.

 

Regardless of your feelings toward white {slipcovered!!} furniture, are we all as super excited as I am right now? Because we should be. This, folks, is a good thing in my world.

(P.S. Yeah, the bottom is wrinkly from delivery... I'm getting there.)