c99xx's Profile

My biggest living room problem is how dark everything is. I have 3 kids and everything we own is dark. All of my favorite rooms are light and airy, but our living room has dark furniture and dark rugs, and a bad layout.

For PPs, to solve the shoes problem, I keep a large basket by the front and back doors and have the kids throw their shoes into it. It's not necessarily easy for shoe removal, but it keeps us all from tripping over a dozen pairs of shoes in a small foyer.

We have an American Leather sleeper sofa that folds out to a king sized bed. It's very comfortable in either configuration. I have 2 small problems with it - the first is that it's too long for our tiny Chicago foursquare, and the second is that it's in microfiber fabric, which is a nightmare with kids. If I could afford it, I'd buy the same couch again in leather and the Q bed version. We found it at a department store outlet, so we got it in 2006 for less than the price of an IKEA MANSTAD.