The legs of the sofas.

@marguicha (230334)
Chile
October 1, 2018 7:31am CST
I woke up with my knees hurting more than usual. I rubbed them and rubbed them and then remembered that yesterday, at my daughter´s house, I had to ask my grandsons to pull me out of the sofas. They were nice, but smiled at the feeble old lady. I told my daughter that for a small amount of money I had recovered my living room by adding some height to the legs of my sofas. For some reason, sofas are made too low. And after a while, when the feathers of the pillows are not new, sofas go down more with the weight of people´s bodies. I did not mind when I could sit on the floor. But now it is not easy to get up from it. And my friends have the same problem. One of my friends, over 80 years of age, have such low sofas. When I go to their house for parties, many of their friends take the pillow in the back and put it on the seat to add height to it. Hector has asked me many times for the worker´s phone, the one who put higher legs in my sofas. But he hasn´t done it yet. I just added some varnished pieces of wood of the same color of the center table. Et voilá. Do you have such problems?
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@LadyDuck (502190)
• Italy
1 Oct 18
I do not have this problem, but my mother did not sit anymore on the sofa, she asked me to bring a chair.
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@marguicha (230334)
• Chile
1 Oct 18
I don´t remember having this problem at your age. But now I´m slowly fixing my house to suit my older body.
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@marguicha (230334)
• Chile
1 Oct 18
@LadyDuck True. I think my mother never had this problems. She had others though, at a younger age.
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@LadyDuck (502190)
• Italy
1 Oct 18
@marguicha My mother was a lot less agile at my age, I remember I helped her to get out of the car. I still jump out without needing any help.
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• United States
1 Oct 18
I can totally relate to your problem and have trouble getting up from sofas that are too low. Now when I visit I choose a regular chair so it's easy to get up.
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@marguicha (230334)
• Chile
1 Oct 18
I considered that my idea was brilliant, after I saw the results. For many years, all my friends sat around the dining room table at parties and the living rooms was occupied by the youngest of them. Now we can all be there.
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• United States
1 Oct 18
@marguicha you came up with the perfect solution and it wasn't costly
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@marguicha (230334)
• Chile
1 Oct 18
@Marilynda1225 I was not able to pay the solution that the man gave me: to upholster the whole sofa and hide some higher legs.
@JudyEv (381815)
• Rockingham, Australia
1 Oct 18
I do find it quite difficult to get up out of a low chair. It was a good idea adding a bit of height to your sofa.
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@marguicha (230334)
• Chile
1 Oct 18
I gave the idea to the worker and he did it in a jiffy for a small amount of money.
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