Coming together

Two weeks ago, we still only had a few pieces of furniture. Okay, we had a lot, but when I looked at that list of still needs, it was a little overwhelming.
With the purchase of the chair and rug for the living room, our living room is now, for the most part, complete.
Yesterday, I was on Bassett Furniture's website. They had dining room chairs on sale, for a fantastic price. The price brought them in line with the price of Pottery Barn's similar chairs. Joern liked these more because the seat is upholstered, but they were always so darn expensive!
I immediately emailed our designer at Bassett, and asked her to order the chairs for us. She wrote back explaining that there was an error, and that the price was actually $150 per chair more. Yikes. So, I copied the link from the website where it listed the sale price. Surprisingly, and to my disappointment, she replied to my link by saying, "Wow, I think there must be an error. I will email the internet order department, but she won't be in until Monday." Not what I expected at all- I expected her to say that they would honor the price. I was going to place the order then on the internet, with the much better price, but I was annoyed with the company as a whole- because they should have honored the internet price, as there has never been a discrepancy between their internet and store prices, and nowhere does it say on the internet that this sale is internet only. I was mad!
This morning, I woke up and checked my email. There was a mail from my designer, she printed out the page I had linked to her, and gave it to her store manager. He told her that they could honor the price! Wahoo!! AND, the store is picking up sales tax this weekend, so I got the chairs for a really excellent bargain!


I think that the upholstery on the chair is probably pretty basic, but I have already started looking at material, so I can reupholster the chairs.
A huge relief that I finally found dining chairs, and another check off the furniture list!