Success!!!

Luke and I purchased our first couch yesterday. I'm oh so excited! I've been scouring the local stores for a week or three, and online for months now. I've decided that I just can't buy a couch online...I need to sit in it, and see it in person. When I checked out our couch online after visiting it in the store; I was so shocked to notice how different the colors and fabric looked online.

With our current lifestyle of moving all of the time we had very specific request and items we were looking for in a couch.
1. We wanted a sectional (but it had to break down into at least three pieces...in order for it to fit into any room we may come upon, we also wanted to be able to take a single piece and place it in a bedroom as a chair if we needed the couch to be smaller, so we liked the idea of a raised sectional so that additional piece didn't look like an extra piece of a couch, but more like a chair).
2. We wanted it to have extra features like a sleeper or recliner (but turns out you can't have number one while also getting number two... due to the raised part--so we choose number 1).
3. We needed a very neutral color (we never know what flooring or wall colors the next house will hold)
4. This should probably be number one, but we wanted it to be really comfy with deep seats (but not so deep it swallows you up, and you find it hard to get out of).

So without further adieu...

This is the floor model, but the factory is shipping us the same color

A little closer look

What the same color looks like on the internet--it's also missing the single piece.

So...I do realize you probably think we are CRAZY to buy a couch this light, and Luke and I said no way at first too. But Lazy Boy told us about this product that coats each thread within the fabric to protect it. If we ever spill anything that we can't get out...we call this 800 number and they send someone to get the stain out (free of charge). If that person cannot get the stain out...they give us a full refund of our money. So...only with a warranty like that would I agree to this color. It's actually a lot more khaki than it appears in these photos. The warranty also covers any tears or cuts, etc...
The cute pillows come with the couch too.

Finally I must mention that Luke also got something yesterday! He now owns his own man chair! A Lazy Boy recliner.

I'm not sure if this is the exact chair, but it looks similar to this one!!

Cheers to being grown ups and buying furniture.