We are getting new living room furniture because of my husband's stroke  

We were going to wait until later when the basement was finished, but now it was such a good sale! And the colors were just what we wanted. Besides the old furniture was over twenty years old - come to think of it, it was close to thirty. Now all we need is to get rid of that crappy carpet and get one to match.

I thought it was strange us buying a new couch and easychair because my husband kept talking about selling the house and moving into a Senior's residence in a couple of years. I mean if it were for two years, which is the time it would take to fix up the house, we could have not bothered. But he is going to be comfortable and maybe that will delay the selling of the house until at least five years or more later.

My husband had a stroke and he cannot get up that good from a soft chair and from one that is too low. So we had to get new furniture with firmer cushions and easier to get out of, our old furniture is over twenty years old. He also has a bad back. Now I hate soft furniture as well, and our old furniture would have been all right, but our living room is smaller than the one we had in Saskatoon, and we gave the love seat to our son. So this time, we just bought the easy chair and the sofa. And with the two of us, if someone else comes to watch Tv, we have the lining room chairs.

He would. This one does have a button on the side where you can make it into an easy chair, and it does lift up a bit. He is not that far bad yet. I would not be surprised giving the history of strokes in his family that it will come to that. We do have a rocker and I guess that will have to go and we can always replace that. It is just that we have a small living room and can only put so much furniture in it.

We are also thinking of getting a banister for the two stairs at the end of the kitchen. We have two steps leading down to the step before going our the house and we are also thinking of getting a railing for the front steps as well. There are new houses in our area who have just one step leading into the front, but when our house was built no one thought of what would happen.

I am not much of a carpenter, but the seat of the new chair will be going back too far even if it does have arms on the side, so we are going to get some hard cushions to put in the back so my husband will be able to get up easier. We did get a miracle foam mattress for our bedroom and that makes it much better. My husband also had a bad back to begin with. We did have to really look around to find the ones that were good. We could have had them custom made, but really could not afford it on our pensions.

You don't have to be a carpenter to use a brick to raise a chair or the bed. I had the lumber co cut the wood blocks for me and I just nailed one of those chair coasters to a 3 inch 4x4.

It would still look home made or home fixed. And you have to consider the weight of the person sitting on the chair or the sofa or laying on the couch. And it depends on where you live or how to live. You have to put a skirt around the sofa to hide the base or else everyone who comes in the room will notice it.

My husband's stroke was on his left side, but the physiotherapist told him that he has to work his left side. So she has told him to pick up coins, used weights, do those puzzles that my one year old plus grand daughter is ready for so he can increase the strength of his left hand. Maybe I should call Sears and tell them to put the lever on the left side, but really I am not that mean.

well, some lazy boys have love seats and have levers on the left side of the left side seat.

I do not know about this one. I do hope it does. He needs the work. *aren;t I a meenie?"

I guess it is not like a sofa bed so you can disguise it or use it double duty. And besides before I was married, I had one of those sofa beds and they were not that comfortable, so I was glad when I got married and had a real bed.

Yes it is a proper sofa bed that I can use double duty but it's just not comfortable to sleep on for months at a time. Moving the bed in the living room was the only answer at present I think.

I gather you got a lot of sleep. At least you do not have to worry about the neighbor's sheep dog barking and those sheep bleating early in the morning. And we thought living in the country was quieter than living in the city. I guess it depends on where in the country.

Lol I said my neighbour's a shepherd, that's why he gets up early, to see to the sheep. There are loads of sheep here, and cows, I'm in tiny rural village up on the moors surrounded by farm land. The sheep and cows don't bother me because I'm used to the noise of a town and screaming, shouting people are far worse than anything here. Except perhaps for the yapping dog over the road that I could cheerfully strangle!

City noise does not bother me, but I had friends in the country, and that quiet drove me crazy. But here in Winnipeg, Manitoba, it is those darned birds. We have a whole lot of cat haters and bird lovers around here and those birds are so bold they just move over v e r y s l o w l y when you walk up the sidewalk, and those sparrows think they own my house.

I used to live in a little fishing village and the sea gulls used to drive me crazy, especially around 4 or 5 in the morning when the trawlers would bring the nights catch in. The gulls would follow so they could steal some fish and they'd make a racket!

I moved away to a town and realised that I really missed the darned birds! lol

Me I do not mind the dogs, the cats nor the traffic. I have always lived in the city, except for a time when we had holidays and we spent time in the country. Did not mind the smell unless there was a pulp mill or a pork or dairy farm nearby. It is just that in Winnipeg, we have so many birds and some weird animal from another planet who just happens to come in your yard or there is a mad scientist in the area trying to create a new species.

We're rather lacking in the mad scientist department! lol

Rats! It would have made life so much more interesting.

My mother-in-law had arthitis, a very bad back, so she had to get her furniture custom made and not only that, she had to get a special bed and she was moving into an old person's residence so she had to get the furniture to fit. She was lucky that when my father-in-law died, my husband and his oldest sister were in charge of her money as no one had taught her to handle it. So when she told them about the furniture they transferred the money into the bank and she went and ordered it. I think my nephew and his wife has that furniture now.

My mother-in-law had to get a special bed and I do remember it costs quite a bit. They had to have it custom made, but I had no idea what make it was so for me getting furniture that is either larger or smaller or shorter or wider then the average is rather a new experience.