have a seat

The comfy green chair in our living room expired one evening last week. The spring in the seat went sprung while B. was sitting in it. We'd only had it for two and a half years - I know because I wrote a post here when we bought it. It came from Pier One, which no longer has any retail stores. After this, we wanted something sturdier than they had to offer, so we started looking online.

The problems with online shopping begin with a frequent lack of sufficient description of the items. We want a chair with a firm seat, not something you sink into and swallows you up, and it's hard to tell from looking what that thick cushion will be like. Some chairs don't have thick cushions, but they tend to have other features we don't want.

What's more, even when the features are listed, the search capacity on these websites is not really well organized. There's no search on some features, and others don't cause everything that has it to come up. So the only solution is the tiring process of browsing through pages and pages of similar items, clicking on likely possibilities, and stopping when you get to one that has everything you want.

We wound up on a website called Wayfair.com, which apparently you're likely to have heard of if you watch ads on cable tv, which I don't. Their listings, though varied in nature, looked curated which Amazon's do not. I don't trust Amazon for anything I'm not willing to eat the cost of if it turns out to be wrong, as it frequently does. But I decided to trust Wayfair.

It met our trust. Delivery was promised for two days later, and a driver left a huge box on our front porch that noon. We wrested it inside, slit open two sides, and lo, the chair as pictured on the web. We slid the legless chair into position, attached the legs - which was easy, just screwing them into place, no messing with an Allen wrench and misleading instructions as with the old chair - and pronounced it good. It's wider than the old chair but not too wide for the space, is firm in the seat, and has a polyester fabric-style surface that's not too susceptible to little feline claws. The design is hard to describe, but resembles a kind of geometric paisley.

Now to dispose of the old chair, and the giant box which I laboriously folded up.