BiF tales...or "do you have anything we can take in the backyard and hose off to clean?"

I mentioned earlier that M and I met Commonwealth Designer Extraordinaire, Melissa Chernick, BiF Furniture store in Fairfax, VA on Wednesday night to look seating selections for the new space. Bif Furniture is a store I'd never heard of, but I started seeing ads for them in the WaPo about a year ago. It's all very contemporary, but not as stark and minimal as a lot of contemporary furnishings can be.

We were there from about 5:30 to 8pm. The three of us had a blast...Melissa said at one point, "I like everything here!" Indeed. They have some cool stuff. While all good furniture is expensive, we thought and Melissa concurred that the offerings here seemed really well made and well, priced.

Melissa came armed with the plans and a ruler, to estimate how things would fit. She also had pictures of the other furniture we'd chosen, our existing rug and samples of our cabinetry and granite. Naturally, M and I had chosen things that were too big for the space no matter how Melissa re-arranged them. So! We scaled down and selected 2 arm chairs and 2 loveseats, The arm chairs will be in an aubergine color and the loveseats are in a lighter brown leather. The style is being discontinued, so we got a slight discount, but the downside is that there no picture of it on the website to show you. The loveseat pictured below most closely resembles the ones we got. It's not identical, our's is not quite as wide, and has a slight 'ess' curve (the Curves again), to each side. It's hard to explain.

They will be placed facing one another in front of the fire place. The arm chairs will be on the ends. We'll probably use our existing occasional furniture, and the Stickley rug that I posted last week. The Aubergine chairs will look really great with that rug.

On other fronts, we're starting week 9. The plumbing and electrical inspection is today. Steve, the project manager was at work this morning at his usual, 6:40am. He was refreshed from family weekend at Rehobeth Beach, DE for his daughter's wedding. He said it was a great family reunion, and that neither 911, fire, rescue, paramedics or pet psychics had to be called at any point during the weekend. In my family, that's a deemed a real sucessful get together!

S'all for now,

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