A couple of weeks ago AT:LA blogged Sure Fit's Ugly Couch Contest. Well, the votes are in, and Julie Lee of San Francisco is the winner! Can you guess which of these 20 semi-finalists has been crowned ugliest of the ugly?
San Franciscan Wins Ugly Couch Contest
Here it is! Yikes.
Julie's submitted the hideous 30-year old couch to the contest four years in a row. She says, Here was my chance to finally make my living space more presentable and tasteful. It's time for the couch to go. It's functional, but it really is just so ugly. It’s ‘loud’ and screams of the 70s. It’s orange, yellow, brown and…greenish? It has a floral pattern all over. And the fabric is some kind of chenille or velour or something strangely fuzzy.
Julie won a $5,000 home makeover with Kim Myles, designer/host of HGTV's Myles of Style, and Sure Fit. We're looking forward to seeing the results.
Congratulations, Julie!
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Some really tough competition in that contest.
view AustinSarah2's profile
I've seen uglier...
view bepsf's profile
DANG! I wish I had known about this. I could have entered!!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/spiralcma/3046725254/
view spiralcma's profile
I think this contest goes to her because she was steadfast for four years! I see a whole lotta couches on that list that are uglier!
view StudioStarter's profile
uhm. so my grandparents have that SAME couch in front of the SAME hearth and SAME built in shelves. Is there something you're not telling us? :) Seriously, I'm a little weirded out here.
view KimberlyM's profile
spiralcma, that couch is not so ugly! i kind of like it...
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OK, i was wrong, my grandparents has a bit of woodworking to it, but I was still a tad weirded out seeing that photo. Here's my grandparents' couch: http://flickr.com/photos/starjewel/3046968190/
view KimberlyM's profile
think the plaid one with plastic over it (first photo) is worse.
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