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[the_rck]

The longer we have our new couch, the less I like it. Scott and Cordelia both think it's great, but I'm not finding it comfortable to sit on. I'm actually seriously thinking of asking Scott to return the two modules that we haven't opened yet. We're stuck with the two we've already set up as we no longer have the packing material.

The problem is that the cushions compress rapidly-- A few hours of sitting is enough to make a permanent dent. The dent slants toward the front and makes me feel like I'm about to be dumped onto the floor. I can't move back because the cushion rises abruptly behind me and because my legs aren't long enough between hip and knee, especially if I want to be able to put my feet on the floor. Cordelia sitting next to me makes the about to fall sensation worse. I don't want her not to snuggle up, but this is making her snuggling feel terrifying which, in turn, makes me want nothing but for her to move away from me.

When I've hinted at these issues, Scott's been dismissive. I think that I'm not expressing it well, but I also think that some of it is that we have the couch here in the garage. Taking it back would require getting a truck and entail huge amounts of hassle. It would also wreck his hopes for the living room.

I'm just not comfortable with it. I didn't expect it to be this bad, but it really is. ::sighs:: The color of the couch is less awful than I expected, at least. The black is richer and less dusty. I wish that helped. I'd rather have it be ugly and comfortable.

These issues are the sort of thing that only becomes obvious after one's sat on a couch for a few hours at a time, repeatedly. There's no way we could have known from sitting on the display model for fifteen minutes that these issues would occur.

At any rate, I highly dis-recommend IKEA's Tylosand couches. They're modular and flexible for arranging, but they're not pleasant to sit on for long periods.

Comments

[hopeofdawn.livejournal.com]

Maybe you could put an extra foam pad or cushion of some kind where you sit, to make it more comfortable? That's what I ended up doing with my old lumpy futon mattress, when I couldn't afford to replace it ... it wasn't perfectly comfortable, of course, but it made sitting on it a lot more bearable...

[the_rck]

A pillow under the cushion helps.

[kyrielle]

That bites. I wonder if they'd require the packaging if your complaint is that it's defective (which would be my complaint about the cushions going squish so quickly).

[the_rck]

They advertise the cushions, on their website, as 'soft' and 'form fitting.'

Scott now tells me that there's an alternative configuration for the cushions that may actually be more comfortable. He didn't mention it before because he expects it to be uncomfortable for him while this configuration is quite comfortable. ::growls at Scott::

He's a foot taller than I am, so his legs are proportionally longer. That means that he sits a lot further back than I can. It also means that, when he sits as far forward as I do, he's quite uncomfortable. This is why I feel that we need to buy extra pillows while he wants to get rid of the three that came with the couch.

[cherydactyl.livejournal.com]

Its' a sectional...can you guys set part of it up the way that's comfortable for each of you??

[the_rck]

I think that's the way it'll end up.

Scott's grumbling about how the configuration we're using now (the one more comfortable for me) looks weird, but it's much better for me. I think this way is the only way for me to be able to sit here. Scott won't be comfortable sitting next to me.

::laughs:: I guess we should have considered the height difference before we married. It keeps making furniture difficult.

[cherydactyl.livejournal.com]

"looks weird" huh? You could quote the Billy Crystal SNL character about how he thinks it's better to look good than to feel good? *rolls eyes slightly*

OTOH, I have a husband who is just a bit shorter than me. Most of the time I don't care, but on the rare occasion I wear heels I feel like I tower over him.

Which probably means, since I think M got my family's tall genes (dad = 6'4" I think; two of my sisters are 5'10" and 6'), M will tower over him more than I do at some point.

[the_rck]

::laughs:: Fortunately, I think it's better to feel good than to look good.

I've wondered how tall Cordelia will end up being. All the women in my family are short, no more than an inch taller than I am at most, but most everybody in Scott's family is taller. I'd rather see her taller than me as it's pretty inconvenient to be shorter than average.

[thette.livejournal.com]

IKEA had only two couches with a rather short seat, so they would be good for me with my short legs. The one we decided to get was Ektorp.

[the_rck]

We wanted something modular which limited us a lot. We also needed to avoid anything with pillows filled with down, feathers or the derivatives. That pretty much left us with Tylosand as the only viable option.

At least it's easier to use pillows to make a seat shorter than it is to do anything to make it longer.

[evalerie.livejournal.com]

If you do need to return it, you (or Scott) are welcome to borrow our minivan. The back two rows of seats are removable, which makes a fair bit of cargo space.

I know what you mean about different sized people being most comfortable on different sized sofas. The ones at my house seem to be okay for me (as you know, I'm very short) and also for my partner (he is quite tall). We just came back from visiting my sister's house, where they have super-huge sofas that make me feel like a tiny child. I have trouble getting comfortable on them because they are so big. Adding a lot of pillows behind me helps. My sister's husband is really tall, so I guess their thought was to have a huge sofa and then let smaller people customize it by stuffing in pillows as needed.

We were once at an orthodontist's office where the sofas in the waiting room were all the super-huge kind. With no pillows or anything to customize them with. I thought that was weird, since at an orthodontist's office, their most frequent visitors would be kids, and the next-most-frequent would probably be moms.

Ok, that is way too much from me about sofa sizes. :)

Oh! I'm no Ikea expert, but last time I was there, there were signs all over the store saying that they want their customers to like what they buy there and that you should feel good about returning things. I don't know how that translates into what their actual return policy is, though. But based on those signs I'd expect Ikea to be very generous about accepting returns.