Domicil Sofa

5-5-13Sun.

       Leona and I got a lot done towards moving into our new home. Friday evening, while I was teaching at American Eagle, the agent from U-Trust realty who is adding my name to the title/deed came by to pick up the paperwork from Leona.

      Saturday, after I rode up the Han, Leona and I went to Ching Hua Casa, the place we got our night tables and vanity, to buy a dining room set. We’re paying 27,000NT ($900us) for a rectangular man-made alabaster stone table (that becomes round with side slats lifted) and six chairs (four fabric and two wooden, custom-made.) The table was on clearance for $300, actually cheaper than the chairs that were $100 each!

      While we were there, we went into another nearby furniture store mall and looked at the sofas and recliner chairs. We saw La-Z-Boy at one place with chairs over $1000us and none that we really liked.

We then went into another store called Domicil, a company from Germany, which had excellent features on their patented sofa modules. The one we looked at, 192cm long, was 76,950NT ($2565us) after a 5% Mothers’ Day promotion. A 104sm square hassock was 19,238NT ($641us) It would take more than two months to assemble the exact combination we want with the color and fabric we choose. In the meantime, they would loan us a sofa! The sofa has “… adjustable backrests and armrests, a solid timber frame with cross banded plywood, a no sag spring seat base, d/40 high-resilient polyurethane foam with fiber wrap seat cushion, robust elastic webbing back support, D40 high resilient polyurethane foam with fiber wrap back cushion, solid timber ht 55mm Wenge finish feet, and selection from Domicil’s exclusive leather and fabric selection.” It was really comfortable for both me and Leona, more comfortable than any other sofa we tried out. We both liked it. However, it is rather expensive.

If we got the Domicil, we wouldn’t need a $1,000+ recliner since the unit we tried out is so comfortable with the adjustable head and arm rest and hassock. We would save even more money if we could find a local substitute for their $641us hassock!

Before we make up our minds, we will go to see other furniture store selections. Leona’s aunt wants us to go to one store in particular where she has connections and can get us a 30% discount. We will go there this afternoon with Leona’s cousin.

After we left the furniture stores, we had dinner in the neighborhood and went home to relax. We checked the mattress of our bed that is so comfortable and discovered the brand was “Roberta Colum VAL International Japan.” Leona discovered that it is assembled here in Taiwan but she couldn’t find a showroom yet.