a trip on sunday morning

I went to West Elm yesterday for the first time. It was phenomenal at least for me, because I had browsed their catalogue consistently for 2 years (without a purchase) and hoped to purchase but was afraid to pay the cost of shipping and handling, and then to have them there present in front of me, to get a chance to discover how truly tall or short the furniture is, test drive it so to speak, is phenomenal. The sad part is I still didn't purchase anything. It was a bit pricier than the catalogue, and I didn't quite budget for all that. And the website has a section for SALE items, not so in the store. But I will purchase some day. I shall budget for it all the way, it may even be the loft style platform bed. But the presentation of the store does not do them any justice. The catalogue is just breathtaking, the store, not so much. Cramped, filled with stuck up employees that size you up before they offer to help, and its so much smaller in size, than any funiture store I have been to, eg, Haverty's, American Signature, let's not even attempt to compare it to IKEA. That one is a zipcode all its own. Speaking of, I went to that one first. And I did and could purchase something in it.