{"id":10177,"date":"2024-08-01T22:15:06","date_gmt":"2024-08-02T02:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withjackandjim.com\/chr\/?p=10177"},"modified":"2025-01-03T12:54:05","modified_gmt":"2025-01-03T17:54:05","slug":"first-impressions-room-and-board-furniture-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withjackandjim.com\/chr\/project\/first-impressions-room-and-board-furniture-review\/","title":{"rendered":"First Impressions: Our New ROOM & BOARD Furniture Review"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Our Room & Board furniture<\/a> was just delivered, so let’s share a Room & Board review of our first impressions of the new living room furniture!<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

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(Be prepared for plenty of Black & White images ahead. We’ll be keeping the colors and upholstery choices under wraps for now, so stay tuned as we reveal more in the weeks ahead) <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Room & Board Review: A Smooth (& Friendly!) Delivery<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

I’m happy to report that Room & Board<\/a><\/strong> was sooo easy to work with on delivery scheduling. Our order was ready before we were, so we needed to push back our scheduled delivery date to buy ourselves some more time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Luckily, Room & Board will hold your order if you’re not quite ready to receive your furniture. Of course, I still need to get a few things done in the room anyway (I blame it on all these kids!), but we were pretty eager to get everything here, finalize the wall colors, and see it all in person.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ladies and Gentlemen… Her.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Delivery day itself went super smoothly, too. Aside from being incredibly friendly, our delivery team communicated their timeframe via text in advance and were super careful with both the furniture and our home. They patiently answered any questions (“How does the sectional hook\/unhook?”) and took all the packaging and cardboard away for us, unless I specifically asked them to keep something wrapped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And just in case you do run into any issues, let your anxious furniture-buying heart be at ease because Room & Board offers Free <\/a>Returns<\/a> & Exchanges<\/a><\/strong> (gasp!). Yes I know, it’s kind of big deal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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How it Looks: Room & Board Furniture For Grownups<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

In a word: STUNNING.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We don’t even have everything set up yet, and the room already looks sooo incredibly different and… grown up? Our new Room & Board furniture looks so sophisticated. It’s like our living room finally hit maturity and is now ready to ask our kitchen to marry it. They are SO CUTE together, and this view from one end of the house is going to be absolute perfection<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This view? I’m drooling<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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We tripled our storage AND our style points<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Every piece feels so substantial and high quality, like you’d be proud to show it off to the neighbors (or the internet, as the case may be). I’m so excited to get moving so I can show you everything in its full-color glory!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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How it Feels: Furniture For the Family<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Now that the new Room & Board sectional has arrived, I can’t even wrap my head around how we went so long with an 80″ couch for seven people. We still have our old sofa (which was actually a futon!) in the next room so the kids have somewhere to sit while I’m working on the living room, but it feels comically small for the lot of us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The new Room & Board sofa is not only nice to look at, it effectively doubles the amount of sofa seating we just had. It’s so deep that we could easily all lounge together to watch a movie, and ohhhh my goodness, is it comfy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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GREENGUARD Gold Certified\u00ae upholsteries FTW <\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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We can fit many, many more butts in these seats<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Alongside our Room & Board designer (free for <\/a>everyone<\/a>!<\/a><\/strong>), we figured out how to squeeze in three more chairs in addition to the sofa, so we’re ready for a crowd and a World Series party \u2013 let’s go, Phillies!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We also picked out Performance, Family-Friendly, and GREENGUARD Gold Certified\u00ae fabrics<\/strong> that should hold up to our band of bruisers and are better for people and the environment alike<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What’s Next<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Leave it to Jim and I to make things more complicated. Not only do we have a little prep work to wrap up, but I’m also going to be making a few tweaks and modifications to make everything “just right” for our family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To Do:<\/h4>\n\n\n\n