The upper floor is also home to the furniture section, with its dark grey walls providing a bit of a break from the all-white rest of the store -- not that dark grey is much of an accent color, obviously. (One of the dorm rooms I lived in at the UW had a similar dark grey "accent" wall, which I always thought was beyond dumb.) To continue on the same random rambling path, Macy's "Hotel Collection" name for their mattresses strikes me as a little odd, since I've never found hotels to have the most comfortable beds... then again, the type of people buying these mattresses (compared to, say, an Ikea mattress like I have) probably stay at nicer hotels than I tend to!
What a dungeon of furniture! Actually, I suppose it could be worse. I'm used to old furniture stores, including the old Foley's ones, which were almost entirely dark except for a few spot halogen lights here and there. This was back in the 1980s and prior. Even then, I think this is so boring that it is worse than those old furniture stores/departments!
ReplyDeleteI don't know if you remember Sears Homelife stores. They were standalone furniture stores run by Sears in the 1990s. They were like the dark furniture stores mentioned above, but they were actually pretty nice. They were a lot nicer than when Sears had furniture in their stores prior to the Homelife stores. This Macy's scene isn't much different than a Sears mattress department circa 2016 though.
Oh, hey, those are the beds which require a ladder to get into! I'm not sure what is so attractive about such things and I've never seen a hotel with beds that tall. Even if hotels have thick mattresses, they usually don't like to keep so much dead space between the boxspring and the floor since people tend to throw stuff there. Anyway, I've stayed at some nice hotels and some middle of the road ones. I've also stayed at Motel 6, but the less said about my stay at the Motel 6 in Fresno, CA in 1990, the better, lol. I can't say I've found a hotel bed as comfortable as my bed at home, but maybe it being my bed at home has something to do with that. That's not to say I find hotel beds uncomfortable...knock on wood...or knock on an innerspring at least, lol. My mattress is a 20 (ok, 19) year old Spring Air so it's not like it is anything fancy. I never bought into that whole nonsense about replacing mattresses every six years or whatever Mattress Firm's marketing wants us to believe, lol.
I think I've heard of Sears Homelife before, but definitely never visited one. Really, the only Sears format I'm all that familiar with is their Hometown stores, and it still feels weird to think of Sears as a place that sells things beyond appliances and tools!
DeleteYeah, I don't understand those tall beds either! I've stayed at some AirBNBs with them, and they are just as awkward to climb into as you would think. I guess I would get used to it eventually, but I'm perfectly happy with my very low-to-the-floor Ikea bed!