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When my three roommates and I decided to live together this year we went searching for the ‘dream' house (well as dreamy as you can get for college students living in Muncie, Indiana). After a few houses we found one that we loved. There was a full basement (with enough room to house at least 3 folding tables for beer pong and a ton of guests), a big living room, a deck for tanning and 4 really big bedrooms. The only problem was our kitchen. Although it was huge, the layout of the room left us no space for a real kitchen table since there was a bar like counter. So we decided to sign the lease and figure it out later.

So after signing the lease in November of 2007, we forgot about house hunting and all of our responsibilities associated until about June, a month before we were going to move in. We realized we still hadn't come to a conclusion about the table. I knew I was in charge of the couch and my other roommates had divided up other furniture among themselves, but we still had to find bar stools or counter stools for the kitchen and basement. So when I was shopping at home before I came I looked for something for our kitchen that would look cute, more like counter stools than something you would be sitting on to drink a margarita. I found a few cute ones but our counter in the kitchen was an awkward height, so most of the stools I had looked at were too tall and the ones that seemed to fit made us look like midgets when we sat on them. So we opted to get a cuter kitchen table for our gigantic living room and to tell the truth, I was kind of nervous thinking that it would look really tacky, however it looks great and it gives us a lot of room to move around still (we even occasionally have beer pong up in there, and it fits with our TV., couch and the table with plenty of room to spare.

The basement however was much easier to find bar stools for. We found really cute black ones that were actually not too expensive for our bar and the swiveled and had black cushions and silver around them which matched our decorations down there! I think next year though when we are looking for furniture we will start a lot earlier and try to measure better, because when you live in a another state, it is hard to remember or picture the room if you have only seen it a couple of times and to find furniture that fits and looks good.