Easy Living Furniture
It's all about Your comfort

What is easy living furniture?

To me, it is very comfortable, very functional, easy to clean, light enough to be easy to move around and not so expensive that you fuss over it, have to have it or care more about it than people.

Start with comfort. This has mostly to do with easy living furniture you sit on, recline on, put your feet up on or lie on. Things like living room chairs, recliners, dining room chairs, couches, sofas, loveseats, footstools, ottomans and coffee tables.

This type of furniture is the second most important thing in your house after your bed. Beds are another category. Obviously, you will have an extremely comfortable bed, won't you?

There are few things worse than being uncomfortable in your own home. Everyone kind of expects that you will be uncomfortable when you are outside your home. That seems to be the way everything is made. Small cars that are hard to get into. Hard seats on the bus, train and subway. Very narrow seats that you have to squeeze into on the plane. Very hard and narrow seats at the ball game. Old, rickety chairs with no support at work and everything in between.

Then when you get home you are expecting easy living furniture to sit down in and relax in comfort and ease the pain away from a day spent in discomfort.

That is the way it should be. If it isn't for you, then getting some easy living furniture should be one of your most important things you do for yourself and soon.

When I was married, my wife was more into the looks of the furniture, not comfort. I cannot even count the times we would be looking at furniture in a store and she would be begging and threatening to buy some foolish, uncomfortable piece of furniture. It was just unbelievable to even have to try to convince her that something like that is a stupid idea. But I had to spend my time convincing her of the basics or end up paying big money for something worthless like:

1) Living room furniture with no arms.

2) Couches that had very low backs.

3) Dining room chairs with no cushioning on the seat.

4) Extremely soft and low living room chairs.

5) Tables with glass tops that are easily scratched.

6) Huge entertainment centers that have to be put together and then are so big they are impossible to move.

It just seems so obvious to me what easy living furniture is.

She would be looking at the soft living room chairs that were really low. I would mention that her elderly father had bad hips and would have a hard time getting into and out of a chair like that. That it would not be good for him. I thought that line of thinking would get through to her because she worshipped her father. She just said, well, when he comes over, you can just bring up a chair from the basement for him.

She would be looking at the low backed couches that were kind of short. I pointed out that when you sit on a low backed couch your head will not be supported when you are leaning back. I also said it is difficult to lie down on a short couch. I am a little over 6 feet tall and need a couch that is longer than that. She did not care about this argument either saying that people should be able to sit up straight and that there was no need to take a nap on a couch. To me, taking a nap on the couch is one of life's greatest pleasures and reclining with my head back is a really good feeling after a long, hard day.

Trying to look at recliners was a lost cause with her. I just gave up on the entire idea. There is no chair as comfortable as a recliner with a built in footrest. It is the ultimate in easy living furniture but comfort didn't matter to her.

What you really need to have a nice home is to have all your sitting type furniture really comfortable.

We did have some really comfortable dining room chairs at one time early in our marriage. The seats had a really good spring cushion and foam seat. The chair was covered in fabric. I could sit at these chairs for hours. Enjoying a long dinner with the extended family was a delight. I also spent hours doing all kinds of office work, reading and planning at the dining room table on these comfortable chairs.

Then, she got the idea that she needed to reupholster these chairs with a different fabric because they had a few minor stains on them. They were dining room chairs after all. We ate from those chairs all the time with small children.

Bad idea. Once the original fabric is off, there is no way to make the chair right again. Those beautiful, comfortable chairs were ruined.

She ended up buying some narrow wood chairs with very uncomfortable seats that you can only sit on for about 20 minutes before you need to get up. Forget about a long conversation at the dining room table anymore. People would just hurry up and eat and get up.

That is what happens when you want your furniture to look a certain way instead of feel a certain way. You end all possibility for long, meaningful discussion.

I want my easy living furniture to be set up for me and my guests.

Here is my idea of the perfect couch:

1) Long enough and wide enough that I can sleep on it for an afternoon or all night.

2) Long and wide enough that 3 people can watch movies all night or a full day of football in total comfort.

3) It has a tall back so you can fall asleep sitting up with your head back and you will not get a sore neck.

4) It is made out of material that will not stain if you spill food or drink on.

5) It is not so expensive that you are afraid to use it.

6) Two people can make out on in without hurting themselves.

7) Comfortable for those times you are sick and need to be in front of the TV until you feel well.

I want comfortable dining room chairs that my guests and I can sit on for hours discussing our hopes and dreams, laughing until we cry or crying until we laugh. This is how people connect. There is no way to have a good relationship with others if you cannot spend the hours together talking around the table.

I especially want an extremely comfortable chair for each adult person in the home. This chair is where each person would spend their time. Maybe this isn't needed for small children, but certainly each adult in the house should have their own comfortable chair.

Having your own super comfortable chair, in your own house is the first step in having easy living furniture. I have a chair like this where I read, write on my laptop computer, surf the internet, watch TV, nap and spend most of my sitting time in my house. Your easy living furniture should include the most comfortable chair in the house for each person.

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