To keep with the trend of updating you about our furniture adventures I decided to share about the couch and chair set that we purchased for our new apartment. A few weeks ago we visited the market looking for a couch and chair set that would sit in our new living room. One thing you need to know is that finding a comfortable couch is one thing, finding a comfortable couch that is not purple with large floral patterns is another. It seems that most Bolivian furniture is covered with bizarred patterns and something you would see on "The Brady Bunch" or "That 70's Show." After searching through the market we found a carpenter that builds his own furniture and covers it with a material of your choice. We looked through his swatches and found a neutral brown color that would match our room. It took about two weeks to build and we got a phone call this past Monday saying the furniture was finished and he wanted to deliver it that night. He said "I am loading it now, I will be there in 20 minutes." So, John walked down to the street to wait for the "delivery truck." After an hour and 40 minutes a taxi with two couches strapped to the top and a chair plus automan hanging out of the back puttered around the street corner. Of course the large couch would not fit in the elevator so John and the little bolivian man and a 13 year old boy hauled the couch up 5 flights of stairs to the apartment. We squeezed it all through the door and now enjoy a new living room set! Not exactly how we expected the process to go, but then again maybe we expected it to go exactly how it did!
Just an example, not our actual couches.
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