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some pictures of our awesome (and free!) mid-century green velveteen sofa.
(complete with kittens)

it needs to be re-upholstered (although that velveteen ain't looking too bad for 50 or 60 years old), but it's beautifully constructed, solid, extremely comfortable and look at those carved legs!

the woman we got it from told us it was made in north carolina mid-century and used to sit in the waiting room of her father's medical practice in portland, maine.

then she and her husband acquired it and it traveled up and down the east coast, brooklyn, pennsylvania, back to north carolina and then finally to cambridge where, although they love it, they just had a baby and simply didn't have room for it anymore.

enter ben and I.

and balancing it on the back seat/spare tire of our "roller skate" and driving, very carefully, the mile back to our apt while I hold onto whatever I can grab of it and hope there aren't too many potholes.

but we made it back in one piece!

somehow managed to squeeze it into our small room and now are the party center of the apartment!

there may have been some intense yatzee games going on the other night...

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