Furniture Shopping and Shopping and Shopping

With the clock ticking, last week we headed downtown to do some furniture shopping. Hours upon hours of furniture shopping. We landed upon a place called Bo Concept, which I can only describe as a more upscale, more pretentious IKEA. It was in, no surprise, Chelsea so the pretension was taken to a new level. Let's put it this way, if I were wearing a tight-fitting, all black outfit accessorized with a studded, flourescent pink belt, I wouldn't feel out of place. In fact, that was our sales guy's uniform -- not that there's anything wront with that. We went on to West Elm. Still chi chi modern. Still in Chelsea. But we were surpised by how much we liked there. We liked their slim upholstery couch and took pictures of Olga sitting on it. Next up: The Door Store Furniture, which doesn't really sell doors. It, too, was in Chelsea but it felt a little out of place, like it better belonged at a strip mall in North Jersey. Jam-packed with furniture. We did like their faux leather sofa bed but I'm not sure if that sort of thing is legally allowed in Connecticut.





We took a break at Union Square to have lunch at Blue Water Grill. Hint: I'm not exactly sure what makes them so special but their shrimp lettuce wraps are incredible. After a (long) stop at the Strand Book Store, we finished our shopping at Crate & Barrel. Just when we thought the only thing we would purchase all day was lettuce wraps, we found a bedroom set we liked and could agree on -- the Loop Collection.

We finished the day at Pottery Barn, where they didn't have the couch we had come all this way to sit on. So, we sat on other couches and pretended this could be the couch we want. As we schlept our way home, we thought: furniture sure is expensive... and, damn, those lettuce wraps were good.