Scary White Sofa

As if there are not enough of them already on craigslist, we finally decided to purchase our very own IKEA sofa-bed (I knew Edward Norton had something really funny to say about IKEA furnitures, I just can’t remember the exact line…). Originally I was going to chose the beige/light brown slip cover. Mi objected because when he was in China, his CCP's office had one just like it. Same color, same style. And I just thought the color would go well with our wall! Looking at the alternatives, I discovered that the beige/light brown colored slip cover was actually the most expensive, almost 3 times as expensive as the cheapest kind, which happened to be...WHITE!

SO white is easier to get dirty... but i figured with the same amount of money, i could get three sets of slip cover instead of one. With Mi's approval, I placed the order and arranged home delivery.

The day when our sofa bed arrived, Mi called me from home. “Our sofa looks scarily clean! I dared not to sit on it.” When I got home, I understood what he meant.

It has been three days since we got the sofa, in the evenings, we still sat in the opposite chairs and admiring our white sofa. I’m not sure what to do now. To buy a throw and some pillow? A blanket to cover it up? Or just go and exchange for a different colored slip-cover?