I had a futon in my apartment in L.A. Eventually I got a bed and moved the futon to the living room where it served as a couch. I had an old friend whom I only tolerated since we had known each other so long. He kept coming into town and staying over. We became roommates for a year, but he would rather sit by the pool and read Tom Clancy books and beg money from neighbours for beer and listen to New Wave music at full volume than look for work. Anyway, he kept coming back even after I kicked him out.
So I got rid of the futon. I figured if he had to sleep on the floor he wouldn’t come round as often. It sort of worked. But for years I didn’t have a couch.
Well, a few weeks ago I bought a black leather(-like) sofa and love seat at Big!Lots. I had the love seat on top of the Jeep and when I was pulling out of the parking space two middle-aged women were walking in the opposite direction. One of them pointed to the love seat and exclaimed to her friend (twice) ‘It’s a guy-couch!’ Weird. A week later I talked to my sister and told her I bought couches. After describing them to her she said, ‘Oh, a bachelour-couch!’ Ar?
I had no idea that there was such a thing as a ‘guy couch’. Is this a common expression among women?
My old roommate, a (then) 30 year old female, owned a big, black leather couch and loveseat. She thought it was “sexy”. Though some of the older ladies at work decided it was “slutty”, but I think they were just jealous.
Me, I was just meh. It’s a couch. It’s used to sit on. I suppose some could be more feminine than others, and I guess when you could have bought a white, pastel-flower-bedecked little number that looked like an “antique” from Pottery Barn, then that couch looks a little more manly beside it.
My parents just moved into a condo and gave me their big overstuffed black leather couch and loveseat. They certainly look more guyish in my place than they did in theirs. Man I love em.
While I don’t think “guy couch” is a common expression among women, had someone asked me to describe a couch that a guy would want/buy, I’d describe a black or dark brown leather couch, possible square-ish, with straight seams and corners. It is just a very masculine look. Other colours of leather, or rounder shapes/overstuffed would be something I’d expect to see older couples having (because of the cost). My parents, for example, have green leather couches.
Yeah, I think there’s kind of a stereotype about single guys over 30 having black leather couches. I’ve seen a lot of black leather couches … enough that I know I don’t ever want a leather couch. The last guy I dated mixed it up a little by having a blue leather couch.
As for the term “guy couch”/“bachelor couch”: I’ve never heard anyone say that, but if I did I’d know exactly what they meant.
Same here. In a similar vein, but a different material, a friend of mine from had (and probably still has) a dark blue velvet sofa and matching loveseat. Wonderful, wonderful pieces of furniture.
Maybe they’re thinking of an Italian Leather Sofa?
When I think of a ‘guy couch’ I think of something dingy, 3rd-hand and smelly. Certainly not something as impractical as a new couch, let alone with a matching loveseat.
That makes me laugh. I had blue, cloth couch set, and it was neither dingy, 3rd-hand, nor smelly. It was just difficult to move. I also had a futon that I always slept on in the couch configuration, because I didn’t want to have a bed.
I got leather because I figured it was better if I spilled something on it. (Being a guy, I don’t have an actual table to eat at. ) And I’ve seen a lot of sofas with big dirty stains on them. As for the loveseat, I only got it because it was so cheap.
) And I’ve seen a lot of sofas with big dirty stains on them. As for the loveseat, I only got it because it was so cheap.