I can't find any complaints on BBB about tuftytime.com. We had a similar issue with very stiff (new) mattresses, and they did soften a lot over a few months (the store gave us the same warning). However, wood jabbing through your back is an entirely different matter. I also found tuftysofa.com (slightly cheaper than B&B) with free shipping. I just did some comparing between the two. Here's stuff you should know: Tuftytime offers 55 different colors (with their Martindale scores, their material blends etc.), and they offer as many samples as you want, if you pay $15 for shipping. Tuftysofa only lets you choose a few swatches, and has NO information on them (just 33 small, generic color squares - you can't even zoom in on them - and there are no photos?). Very very odd. They do have great reviews (but not all good, so that's honest), but no photos of their work - strange. The low reviews (3 stars out of 5) all complain about the shipping time (everything is made in Denmark), so who knows? Pricing wise, I put the same Tufty Sofa replica items in my cart (for each website), and Tuftysofa.com was $2000 cheaper than Tufty Time!! Tufty Sofa also offers a 7 year manufacturers warranty, and only $49 to deliver the sofa into your home. Tufty Time, is $2032 more expensive to be exact, and charges $550 to have the sofa delivered into your home (that probably includes installation if it's "white glove," but I'm pretty sure Tufty Sofa offers the same for $49). Tufty Time charges tax, and Tufty Sofa charges no tax (most likely because their presence is in Denmark and not CA etc.?). Tufty Time's warranty is a limited 1 year warranty only. I still have to do more research on Tufty Sofa, but I have to admit a $2k price difference is pretty shocking for a replica sofa - Tufty Sofa does have agents in SF and SJ (supposedly), but I'm still not sure if they are legit. Has anyone bought from them? I don't know if I would, after going through rip-off hell with Bo Concept in SF and Denmark (just say no!!). Any info would be great, thanks! I'll repost this as a separate post...

Oops, I mixed up bedroom #1 and #2 above. They are correct in this post. This paragraph refers to bedroom #1 in the northeast corner of the home. Yep, put the closet on the east wall. Having a long closet is a bonus..... However, if it's too long (I really don't think it will be), halve it and use the rest of the back wall as a niche for the head of a twin bed or a study desk. If you have a niche, I'd put it nearest the window, in the northeast. See if you can do the same thing with the large bedroom (#2): put the closet on the opposite wall from the entrance. That way, there's no dead space when you step in the door. This one is harder because of the way it's shaped right now. You need way more closet space than you have right now, IMO. In fact, if you put the W/D in the bathroom, you can offer the space allocated to "laundry" as a nice big storage space, for stuff, bicycles, a kayak, electric bicycle, camping equipment.... This would be very valuable to a renter in an urban area. Next possibility....Would you consider having the two bedrooms on the south side and the kitchen/living room on the north? I know it's not your preference, but it would put the bedrooms near the bathroom. I really don't see any good alternative to putting that bathroom in the southwest corner. Too bad the available space is not just a bit bigger, so there'd be more possibilities. Is your local code for a bedroom 70 square feet (with a minimum wall of 7') plus a closet? Or? It's important to know this exactly. Minimize Bedroom #1 IMO even if it's just a few inches smaller than right now. You'll need those few inches either in kitchen cabinets or inside the front entrance to make a drop spot, hooks for jackets on the wall, etc. You don't really have room in the cabinets for a dishwasher right now: every inch in a small home really matters. Hope this helps...

I think it's a great idea. And more flexible than one from a particular brand. But better than saying "here's money for a vaca" because this forces the issue. I'm fully confident Air BnB, with almost no fixed costs, is one of the few you can say definitely survives. I also have good things to say about the co. and their customer service.

The last time we stayed in Joshua Tree, we rented the Donovan Suite at The Joshua Tree Inn, and that was a couple of years before we bought our house in Cathedral City, which is a reasonably short drive from Joshua Tree. I think the Donovan Suite cost $180 a night back then, but I'm not really sure - it might have been over $200. Kevin and I had separate bedrooms, and there was also a kitchen and a private patio, and so it was worth the price. This hotel is at the edge of town, and so we had to drive to the nearest restaurant downtown. We've decided not to drive to the free museum, but there is the Desert Arts Festival in Rancho Mirage this week-end that we might go to. Since it is at a mall, admission is free. I'll have to make a point of going to the farmers' market there next Friday. We missed the tamale festival in Indio last December, but I think we decided not to go, even though we were in the area. We can make it next time, perhaps.