![]() I’d upgrade, but it’s only worth about $2,500 and works perfectly. My minivan is 15 years old with 180,000 miles, but it’s a Honda and refuses to quit. The couch is nice, yes, but what the boys don’t realize is that we drive crappy cars. Once I saw boy number #2 about to climb onto the couch with a banana, and boy #1 said “Levi, don’t eat on the couch….it cost more than our car, remember?”Īnd just for the record, I wasn’t lying to them. I haven’t had to make them run a single lap though. I let them abuse our previous couches because they were old and ragged and I just didn’t care, so the transition had me a little worried. We’ve had the sectional for about a month now, and I’ve never seen my boys treat something so well. As they walked away I saw them slide their fingers gently over the leather, like they were touching the freaking Mona Lisa. I saw their big blue eyes get even bigger, and slowly all three turned to look at the couch with newfound appreciation…like it was made of gold, and somehow also glass. I knew the second it came out of my mouth that I had them. ![]() I leaned over the island and looked at them right in their big blue eyes and said “Listen, this couch cost more than our cars, so I need y’all to take care of it. Then I said the thing that will forever be known as one of my biggest mom wins. Got it? If I catch y’all breaking the rules you’re going to be running laps, okay?” “Okay boys, here are the rules for the new couch – no jumping on it, no taking the cushions off, no sitting on the tops of the cushion backs, and no food or drinks in the living room or anywhere near the couch. So I sat the three older boys down at the kitchen island for my mom lecture. Aka, destroyers of all things clean and nice. So the delivery men leave, and now it’s just me and my expensive new leather sectional…and my four young sons. But as they sectional starts to go together I feel so much better. My boys immediately dive in to jump on them and I begin to wonder if I made the wrong choice, trading the solid one-piece sectional for this pile of pillows. So they move my giant sectional out to the garage, again, and then pull out the Timber….which pretty much consists of a boatload of cushions. I refuse to be the woman who returns two couches. So when the new couch arrives they pull the box out of the trailer and into my living room, and I’m a little nervous for them to open it, because I HAVE to love it. ![]() He always texts the day before delivery to set a time and make sure I’m available, and then again the next day with a 30-minute warning. The delivery man is the same as first time, a super friendly local guy in his personal vehicle and a covered trailer. About two weeks later the new couch arrives. So Adam and I box up the Mello and take it to the garage, and drag all the pieces of our big brown corduroy couch sectional into the living room. That was it…no explaining myself or going back and forth endlessly with customer service. They would order the new one, issue me a refund for the price difference, and the delivery guy would pick up the sectional I was returning when they delivered the new one. They replied and said that was no problem, and to go ahead and box the old one up. So I contacted Article and told them I wanted to exchange the Mello sectional for the Timber sectional. Even though I was dreading the return process, I just couldn’t spend that much on a sectional and have it not be exactly what I wanted. The Mello was comfortable and well made, but the shape and style didn’t feel right in my house. CLICK HERE to read the first part of my Article furniture review.Īlright, so in the last post I left you hanging when I decided to return the Mello leather sectional from Article. ![]() And I’m sure you get tired of hearing this, but all opinions are really, genuinely 100% my own. Disclaimer – I received 50% off my purchase from Article in exchange for writing a review.
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