Upstater

A reader has sent in a non-real estate question, this one about decorating. She’s in search of the perfect couch, one that’s luxuriously smooshy but not too big. “It has to be less than 86 inches long to get in our door,” she writes, “and I want modern, square arms but something also homey. And microfiber. And less than $2,000.”

Readers, she’s done her research. She’s combed the aisles and pages of Room and Board, Crate and Barrel, Restoration Hardware, Macy’s, Raymour and Flannigan, and even Jennifer Convertibles, but she’s still come up short — apparently there’s something perfect at Restoration Hardware, except for its price. Are there upstate furniture stores she should scour? We’re plum out of ideas. You guys have any suggestions?