Crappity crap sofas and some not so great photos of my living area.

A few years ago I bought two leather sofas from Freedom. A furniture store here in Aus,  I think it would be something similar to Pottery Barn.  These leather sofas were gorgeous, just what I was looking for and reasonably priced, (I should have realised then). They were bi-cast leather, something I hadn't heard of before, and unfortunately didn't do any research before I bought them.  I did ask the question - Are they leather? and was told yes, but it was bonded, and had a protective coating on them. Here are the sofas.  You can see why I don't have an interior design blog, as no arty photos, close ups or staging for the camera.

Having bought plenty of furniture from Freedom previously I was sure they would be great, and yes they were until this happened.

Just over three years later, they started to peel, at first I was blaming bitchypoo as I thought she had spilt nail polish remover. Eventually as they became worse and worse,  I realised it was a fault in the manufacturing.  Surprise, surprise they only have a two year warranty. I went back to Freedom and although it was just on 4 years by this time, they wouldn't replace them, but they agreed to give me a credit that I could use in store.  It wasn't a huge amount, but I suppose it was better than nothing.   I never want to buy a leather sofa from them again, in fact I never want to buy a sofa or anything from them ever again. Trying to find something within the credit amount they offered was difficult, I finally decided on a mattress to replace one that a friend somebody who I trusted, had borrowed my spare queen size mattress and then gave it away, grrrrrrr.

Off to Ikea I went, to find myself a nice reasonable sofa or two, and look what I found, woo hoo.

I went back to Ikea and bought some more cushions so now my place looks like a shrine to Ikea but I love it.

That's a red throw that I already had, in the middle of this sofa.

Bailey loves them too!

I LOVE IKEA