I know I've been negligent lately but those of you that know me well, know why.
I wanted to post about our new dining room set that we stumbled upon yesterday. We were driving home from visiting my dad and because it was the Carribana Parade yesterday on the Lakeshore, we had to take more of a northern route to get back to the west side. During the course of this journey, we passed a warehouse with lots of SALE signs and such in the front and G-man said "You know, I pass this place every day coming home from work, let's check it out."
Turns out the place is the last standing Consumers Distributing (Furniture Division). It's massive inside with more furniture than you can imagine. Before too long we were met by what I'm going to call the world's best salesman. Not the typically looking salesman with his square glasses, orange checked polo shirt and cargo khaki shorts, complete with Tim Horton's takeaway mug that may or may not have had coffee in it (I never once saw him drink from it but he did keep it close like a security blanket of sorts). He smelled awfully of cigarettes and normally this would have kept me from interacting with the guy BUT... there was something really personable about him. He didn't come on with the hard sell but he really knew his product and he was very persistant. Our favourite moment was when G asked him for his card and the guy said "Well, I was hoping to write my name at the bottom of your bill!". It was at this point we knew this guy was going to get a sale out of us.
45 minutes later we had custom ordered the dining room set of our liking and G was signing HIS name at the bottom of the bill. So take a look at the catalogue images of our order:
I wanted to post about our new dining room set that we stumbled upon yesterday. We were driving home from visiting my dad and because it was the Carribana Parade yesterday on the Lakeshore, we had to take more of a northern route to get back to the west side. During the course of this journey, we passed a warehouse with lots of SALE signs and such in the front and G-man said "You know, I pass this place every day coming home from work, let's check it out."
Turns out the place is the last standing Consumers Distributing (Furniture Division). It's massive inside with more furniture than you can imagine. Before too long we were met by what I'm going to call the world's best salesman. Not the typically looking salesman with his square glasses, orange checked polo shirt and cargo khaki shorts, complete with Tim Horton's takeaway mug that may or may not have had coffee in it (I never once saw him drink from it but he did keep it close like a security blanket of sorts). He smelled awfully of cigarettes and normally this would have kept me from interacting with the guy BUT... there was something really personable about him. He didn't come on with the hard sell but he really knew his product and he was very persistant. Our favourite moment was when G asked him for his card and the guy said "Well, I was hoping to write my name at the bottom of your bill!". It was at this point we knew this guy was going to get a sale out of us.
45 minutes later we had custom ordered the dining room set of our liking and G was signing HIS name at the bottom of the bill. So take a look at the catalogue images of our order:
We didn't get the chair with the arms but six side chairs with the padded seat. I can't get a pic of the seat colour but it's a light sage green in the "popular" ultra suede fabric. Very easy to clean apparently!!! The chairs and the entire table are in the "popular" tea colour. We thought about mixing the table top colour and the legs colour but in the end we went for simple over fancy schmancy.
In 4 - 6 weeks we'll be ready for a dinner party. Who's comin?
2 comments:
I'll come ANYtime!! Love ya sweets!
finally, a dinner at the neighbours! we're in!
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