Husband Vs Wife, Style Vs Comfort, Recliner Vs Totally Bitchin' Stiletto Chair

It's a tale as old as time, song as old as rhyme, Beauty and the Beast.

It all comes down to Beauty vs the Beast, doesn't it?

Or Husband vs Wife.

Style vs Comfort.

More specifically, a battle between two chairs.

Let me back up a bit. It occurred to me last week when the carpet was installed in the basement, that this project is almost complete. From the 1974 avocado green walls to the full functioning bathroom, the basement is almost complete.

Yep. Almost complete.

Almost.

Guess what I discovered was missing when I plopped down to watch a movie?

A couch.

Or a chair.

Or anything to rest my weary bones upon besides the newly shag carpeted floor.

Phooey.

Sitting on the newly shag carpeted floor when you are rapidly approaching the age of forty isn't all that awesome. In fact, it seriously harshed my mellow so I spent quite a bit of time Friday and Saturday shopping for just the right couch and chair. After narrowing my selection down to a few, I invited (or coerced, depending on your point of view) my husband to help with the final selection.

He was very helpful.

(That might be my most favorite photo of him. Ever.)

And that recliner? That's the one we purchased. According to store policy, once you've … uh … loitered on a piece of furniture for more than twenty minutes (all the while snoring softly), you must purchase it.

To be truthful, it was a good thing my husband went along with me to purchase furniture. I totally would have forsaken a boring ol' recliner for this beauty:

Is this not the snazziest chair your eyes have ever seen? I mean seriously. Wouldn't this look amazing in my basement? The chair lacked a little something in the comfortable department, but I know from watching years of TLC's 'What Not To Wear' that fashion is above comfort.

Stacy and Clinton told me so and they're never wrong.

If only I could have gotten comfortable enough to have loitered for more than twenty minutes, we would have been obligated (according to store policy) to purchase this totally bitchin' chair.

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