Oh. Mah. Gawd. You guys are freaks -- freaks, I tell you! And I love you all the more because you're so freeeeaky! There is some amazingly awesome stuff in this thread. Makes me want to add even more bizarre stuff to my house, because, really, who wants to live without humor and whimsy and ... freakishness in their lives? ;-D Well, I'm the only person I know of whose house is Tudor cottage in the outside, Little Mexico on the inside. What's odd is that I recently learned from the woman who grew up in the house in the 40's that her mother was fluent in Spanish and had a love affair going on with the Latino culture. I had sent this woman some current house pix, and she said her mother would have loved it. Here are a few of my oddities: This hideous little truck - how I love it! It's moved from my kitchen to my living room mantle. My nephew came over one day and played with it, and ended up gouging the wooden bun feet of my sofa with it. ::sigh:: I have a Tatouage chicken on my hallway wall: There's a rusting rooster guarding my side entry: And a scary troll dude sitting on my front porch.

Marti, this may be a weird idea, but let's just say I work at thinking outside the box. First off Futons are designed more as a place to sleep than sit comfortably. If you're lucky. Some aren't comfortable for either. Sounds like you need to find a way to raise the seating. Instead of changing or adding to the seating itself why not raise the frame? Not knowing what type of legs it has I'm not sure what would work. If you can post or link to picture of the frame, it would be easier to decide how best to "fix" this problem. Right now I'm thinking that the "cones" that raise a bed or something like that would do the job. As for the depth of the seat, I'd find a thick square floor type cushion (linked below) to lay against the back of the sofa. That will bring it closer to the edge of the sofa so a shorter person can lean against the cushion. Making it much more comfortable. Here is a link that might be useful:

budge1: I like the brown floral. In fact, after your post I started looking at a few similar fabrics for myself. I think I need to just place my order so I can stop agonizing over it all. I was the same way with my kitchen. I kept tweaking the design for over 6 months and drove my DH and KD nuts. I love my kitchen, though even today I see someone else's kitchen and think, hmmm... maybe.... so that's why I frequent this board now over kitchens. jejvtr: Thank you for the other suggestions for sofas and glad you like the look of the CC one. I had picked that out over a month ago--it was the side chairs that I was in a delimna what to do regarding style and fabric and once I made my choices, I started to wonder if the chairs would go with the style sofa I had picked. If the decorating experts say this one goes, that is enough for me. I'd rather stick with CC at this point since I've already picked all my fabrics, sat in the sofa and found it to be comfortable, maped out the dimensions in my floorplan, etc. teeda: That was the conclusion I came up with also so no more looking for me on CL at vintage sofas. When we remodeled our house we lived in an apt for 7 motnhs and my poor DS actually slept in a sofa bed in the living room the entire time! After that, the sofa was not the same so we had to replace it with the sectional. The sofabed will only get occasional use and I think I might get an aerobed down the road so guests can have a choice and I have more options for additional guest sleeping since neither DH nor my family live locally--wonder if you can take them camping? Tommorrow I'm going down to CC and place my order--for the WTs, the sofa and 3 sofa cushions. The associate is busy getting a quote for me on reupholstering the chairs as I FAXed her a picture and dimensions which she sent to their workroom. I'm thinking of using the floral on the fronts and the green velvet on the back and arms. For the sofa cushions I will do 2 in the pink diamond fabric with fringe and a center cushion with the floral and green velvet combo.

That's exactly what's happening here, sultry. They can't seem to help themselves. As you can see from the picture, Sabastien likes it best when he is out of her reach. She can climb up beds and upholstered furniture, but with that missing hind leg, she can't jump up on hard surfaces. This way Sabastien feels "in control". Even in her excitement, she is unable to get right in his face the way she does on the floor. She never seems to get her feelings hurt. I'm the one who feels sorry for her. She wants to be friends more than anything! She is slowly making progress with them, and remains 100% enthusiastic. Thank you all so much for caring about her. Ingrid, this reminds me. Are Jason and Noah finally friends? Lisa