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A futon would have gone through that door ;)

I really do feel for them though.

Matt at http://www.goodnightmoonfuton.com

At our old apartment you had 2 choices of how to get things in, either up the indoor staircase (we had the second floor of a house) and then try to turn the corner really sharply which wouldn't even work for a chair without how much room there was, or up the back outdoor staircase. This wasn't a standard sized door and you had tu turn sharly to get in and hang things over the railing.

Somehow the guys before us got a huge couch in there, and couldn't figure out how to get it back out. So they left it in there. The landlord cut the couch in half and took it out in 2 chunks. Only way he could figure out how.

I keep thinking of that episode of "Friends" with Ross shouting out "Pivot....Pivot....Pivot....."

I have a 4'X9' wooden dining table (with an un-removable stretcher underneath) from turn of the century Germany and getting that into the living room required some math, as well as some hammers to take off the over painted pins on the door hinges: on the security gate, the kitchen door and the living room door....after that it was a straight shot....lol

My poor "installers"... I don't think I have ever heard soooo much cursing!

This is my story. First, you have to understand I'm short and my husband is tall -- and stubborn. He decided we needed to take our leather couch through the front door. But the front door could only be reached via a stoop that had narrow steps at each end, too narrow for the couch -- or by heaving the couch over the railing. So we get the couch halfway over the railing and then we're stuck. I'm too short to push from the ground and not strong enough to manhandle the couch fromn the stoop. So luckily our neighbor -- who had not even met us yet -- came driving up in her pickup with her handyman. Between the four of us we finally got it in the house, albeit with a lot of cursing and some deep scratches in the back (where you can't see them, thank goodness). When we moved out, it went out the back door with no problem.

This reminds me of Dirk Gently...

In NYC there are whole businesses who's business it is to cut up your furniture in one place and put it back together in another place! No lie.

If he had taken the door off the hinges it might have fit through the doorway. Depends on the hinges, how easy this is but I have done it.