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I am thinking about looking for new living room furniture - primarily couch/sectional/etc.
What we have is ok, but very large and clunky and don't really provide a lot of seating area.
Any suggestions on where we should look or whether anything exists that isn't at least 3 feet deep? I'm pretty sure that I want something where the seat is shallower (like 20-21") and 3diff likes taller sofas so he has head/back support.

Given that one commits to such things for a long period of time (5+ years), I'd like to find something that we actually really like - and I don't have a lot of ideas about good places to look.

Anyone interested in coming over to play games tonight or possibly Sat afternoon?

We had had vague hopes of coming home on Saturday, but it looks like we will be here at Mount Auburn until Sunday. Visitors welcome! We have survived a jaundice scare caused by a high 24-hour bilirubin count. After 18 hours or so of phototherapy, breast-pumping to supplement feed, and being urged to supplement with the evil formula, Razi's next bilirubin number was lower and the "crisis" was over. Now all we have to do is catch up on the lost sleep, as best we can. (Posted by 3diff)

3diff and I are planning on going to see something tomorrow evening. Possibilities include:
"Jesus Christ Superstar" at the Opera House
Boston Ballet: Three Masterpieces at the Wang
The Importance of Being Ernest at the Lyric Stage
Godspell at the Park Playhouse in Burlington
The Producers at North Shore Music Theatre

Is anyone interested in going along to one of these? Possibly with dinner before?

We should finally have a house-warming party.
Can I get preferences for April 5 vs. April 12?

Who would be interested in having a regular-ish toddler/baby get together?
Possibly Tuesday nights - we could start at 6pm.

I am thinking it might be fun to take Will up to Kimbal's (or somewhere else suitable) for a corn maze, maybe a hayride, a bit of animal farm viewing, maybe some apple-picking and, if it is Kimbal's, some ice-cream, of course.

Would anyone else be interested? I am thinking of this coming Sunday afternoon.

We haven't had a vacation (other than a long weekend trip to Yosemite with 3diff's mother or to visit relatives & friends in well over two years.

Any recommendations on where we should go? It would be, of course, the 3 of us - possibly with my mom & her partner along for visiting & baby-sitting.

I don't want something too hectic. I'm thinking of either something in late Sept/early Oct or in the winter, say Feb or March. That's kind of far away though, and earlier would be nice.

We've never done a cruise. We've been to Spain, Puerto Rico, a bit of Italy (Tuscany mostly), London & some UK, and I've been to Paris a number of times (though never enough). Some beach would be nice, but a week or two of it could get old without other things to do.

So, there is the dresser saga. First, 3diff's armoire didn't fit up the stairs to the third floor. This was no real surprise and well, we didn't have a good tall place to put it in our bedroom anyway. But, it leaves a heap of clothes in the corner with no place to put them.

So, we set out on Saturday to get a couple dressers from Ikea (Malm 6-drawer for the truly interested) that we'd identified on our last trip, but that they were out of then. But, 3diff mentioned that really, shelves were much more useful than drawers for storing sweaters; this also got me thinking that shelves would be nicer for storing pants than drawers as well. So, the Malm dressers weren't that great an option as far as that went. Right near the doorstep of Ikea, we saw an "Affordable Furniture" and decided to look in, since we were still looking for a CD storage solution.

Well, they also have a triple dresser where the two sides have doors & 3 shelves each inside. The center is 5 drawers. There's a matching "gentleman's cabinet" with one door & 6 drawers, I believe. That's too tall, but could go on the wall - and the triple dresser is short enough to fit right under the eaves. This is all excellent and great but....

they're cheaply made and fake ebony-colored. The cheapness shows in, say, what appears to be a nice double-deep drawer that is only half-height inside. The drawer pieces are attached with staples - and the drawer gliders are plastic, which just doesn't look very sturdy.

So, I was willing to consider the Malm dressers as disposable, but these are just enough more expensive (double the price) that it seems like a lot to spend on an interim solution.

Now, I've never bought a dresser; the dresser I have I got for free b/c it was in my room at Wadsworth when I moved in. I have a hankering for matching furniture, but... not sure. And, if we like shelves, it might be better to get more sturdy well-made furniture that would last longer. But, as 3diff cleverly pointed out, this isn't exactly an immediate crisis.

So, any thoughts on good places to go hunting "gentlemen's cabinets", as the type with shelves appear to be called? Also, looking for maybe another Scandinavian/Danish furniture store, since we do like that style. We looked at From Teak, which was neat, but nothing totally sang out at me as far as dressers.