@Karen Hodge, I hear you!! Sometimes I think the estate agent should carry quite a bit of the blame actually. If they do their job correctly like you see in the adds on TV, they should bring these discrepancies to the attention of the sellers, stand on their morals and say if you can't get it better than this, then you'll have to find someone else to sell your home!! I know you can't make everybody "house proud" but the saying "do unto others" springs to mind. I bet if these same people bought a house not up to scratch, "a current affair" would hear about it but they don't think it wrong to simply walk out on a house that isn't being left nicely for the next family!! I have some friends that recently sold a house in Essendon, Melb and whilst the buyers were back and forth selling their own home, my friends kept watering the plants and even did things like painted out the wardrobes because of the scuff marks made over time!! They cleaned the entire two storey house from top to bottom and finished by mopping the floors as they were exiting. The buyers were so taken by the entire home, they bought it with almost all the furniture that my friends had in it!!

5 Contemporary Designs... & my 1st impressions: 1. I'll stick with a traditional papasan, thanks. Less likely to get poked where it hurts. 2. Wishing had pool noodles right now. Or a life sized Gumby. 3. Oh that looks just like my computer chair! Sans the cage. Maybe I need that part so the "chair" stops mysteriously rolling into other rooms. 4. Whaaaat? *reads article's description* Ohhh! 5. No.

I always ask the host if they would like me to bring a salad or dessert as I never know what others are bringing and don't wan to double up too much on anything, then we also always bring both a bottle of wine and half doz light beer as well as a bottle of soda as either myself or hubby will be the designated driver we take it in turns, if the host says not to bring anything but some BYO drinks I take the host a small gift of chocolates or nuts something just for him/her or both even a nice bottle of champagne the host/s can have later, obviously the gift has to be tailored to the hosts preference.

what a gorgeous chair...look carefully all over the frame and inside the cushions to see if you can find a brand name to help narrow the search but a quick check on Google had chairs with similar arms called a Heron chair made in the 1950s but they has four legs...good luck with the search