My sister-in-law owned a real Victorian couch. It was quite beautiful, but holy shit was that thing uncomfortable to actually sit on. The seat part was at least sprung, but it was rounded and fit no part of the human anatomy. The back and arm rests were just solid wood. Definitely from an era when you did not want guests to make it to dinner time.
Furryosa says “challenge accepted”. Pic unrelated.
My partner is a big antiquer and we would have been out $100 if this showed up in our area.
That’s pretty cool for $100, especially with the craft you get for over half that.
Look how pleased they are. The right choice was made!
I’m just happy for the person with the little bastards are using it.
The secret to get a cat to use a bed is to place it in a spot they already like to hang out at. My cat was always sitting on an end table to look out the adjacent window, so I stuck a bed there and he couldn’t be happier to lay there all day long now.
Most little cat furniture would be $20-50 dollar and might be poorly constructed. $100 for something that looks nice and is hopefully well made doesn’t sound so bad.
That’s a very good point. That couch looks very sturdy. And beautiful.
Ok awesome cute amazing wonderful but how the fuck are humans expected to sit in the full size version
Perch on the edge. You aren’t supposed to sit back in furniture like that. It was really made for birds. The victorians just misunderstood it’s true purpose due to excessive corsets and absynth causing a general lack of oxygen intake.
What a horrible time period.
great if you had a penis.
You could say that about most, if not all, of history.
Excepting that part of the world that has fish that swim up your penis.
Hopefully it’s just written history, maybe men haven’t always treated women shitty…
I always enjoyed thinking we were making progress on this, but between Trump and Hegseth I realize Atwood was right and I’m an idiot.
societal progress is rarely felt by those who start it.
there is progress as much as there is regression.
I’d like to think that the fact that 80 years ago women were expected to “stay home and take care of the kids” and today that’s generally not even a choice, that progress is winning.
then again, the only reason why it was allowed to win is because capitalist growth demanded more workers…
80 years ago women were expected to “stay home and take care of the kids”
Ironically, 80 years ago was immediately after American women had just won WWII (checks nervously to make sure we’re not on ml) by going into the factories and making the weapons that the men needed to fulfill their proper role of going out and dying. The women being homemakers shit was a calculated strategy to give their jobs back to the men who survived.
That’s so cute and stylish!
Not protecting that surface with a blanket in a cat house is a death sentence by a thousand scratches. Wouldn’t recommend.
It also depends on the cats that live there. We have an adopted cat for the last year and a half that was a street cat picked up from a larger City. He’s very social, has zero personal boundaries, and will explore any horizontal surface that he can climb his way to. That said, he only scratches on things that we put out for him to scratch on. Granted, we have multiple scratching posts throughout the house, and other assorted cardboard scratchers available to him. But so far we haven’t seen him consider the furniture.
Some things are meant to be enjoyed, not to last forever
This is his home as much as it is mine. Plus most of my furniture is second hand so it doesn’t cost as much.
Velvet is surprisingly resistant to cat scratches. I have a velvet cover on my leather couch, and my cat goes to town on it with his claws. I can usually “wipe away” the scratch marks, and they’ve never punctured through to the leather.
Depends on the cat. Cat hair on the other hand, I’d recommend a secondary surface for catching as much as possible.
A need is a responsibility.
