After an extensive search of just about every modern furniture store in and around Kalamata, I found the perfect sofa for our little living space. I wanted something with a modern look as well as a sofa that would convert to extra sleeping space for guests. I fell in love with this piece immediately but needed to run the color by my better half in the States. It is quite the bright modern green but somehow it spoke to me. I got the thumbs up and headed back the next day to purchase it. It's arrival in the village was highly anticipated as Kolya and I have been sitting on a blanket on the living room floor to watch the Olympic Games. But our former sofa was not invited back inside after the new floors were installed. It did however find a nice new home up in the mountains at a neighbor's cabin.

A little side note on that old sofa ... It holds a lot of memories for me. Whenever I would visit my Aunts, they would feed us a monumentally huge meal and then set us up in the living room for nap time on that sofa that had been laid open for sleeping. The rough hewn wooden door would be latched for our privacy and the shutters pinned open for whatever breeze we could feel ... As well as a good view of the neighbor's donkey lest we forget where we were when we awoke. The sofa was hard as cement and barely wide enough for two as we clung to each other to stay atop. Its a wonder we ever slept at all!

Back to the present... I could never quite understand the sofa design either. You had to gingerly take a seat so that the front legs wouldn't slide forward and send you straight to nap time. It wasn't until when we were moving the sofa that I was told that Aunt Voula had added the legs at one point ... Converting a sofa with under storage into extra sleeping space. Bravo for ingenuity ... Not so much for execution...






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