When it came to furnishing our NY apartment, we bought only three things brand new. Our bed frame, mattress and our sofa. Our sofa was easily our biggest expense and I agonized over its purchase. I ordered so many fabric samples I ended up using them to make birthday cards, face masks and other random decorative gifts. I think at last count it was around 50.

I swayed between wanting a lime greeny colour, too sage, too dark, too teal. It was honestly exhausting. I was looking at sofas priced from $600 to $6,000, but was swiftly and firmly reminded by my husband that our budget was $1,000. I was horrified! There was NO WAY we could get anything nice for $1,000. I scoured and scoured, until 1am most nights to no avail; until….I received a sample in the post from Apt2b. The color was stunning and it was so so soft, and plush and I wanted to rub it on my face – I knew it was the one but also knew that just my luck I’d go back on the website and it would be the $6,000 sofa. To my delighted surprise it was $1,300! I couldn’t believe it! I went skipping to my husband to proudly inform him I had finally found the one. With a casualness that caused my blood to boil he turned and said ‘that’s over budget.’

I won’t go into the conversations to follow apart from to inform you all that we placed our order three days later for the Ryandale sofa in forest green from Apt2b – and I meannnnnn look at it!