The Arrival:

When I mentioned earlier that the chair came in a crazy big box, I wasn't kidding. I was expecting a fairly good size box, but this is definitely a two-person job as the image below will confirm. So, call your significant other, family member, friend, or kind looking vagrant off the street and set up a time to help you haul this puppy into your home. My husband and I had to do some serious jockeying to get it in and out of the back of my Prius (Shut up... I get great gas mileage!), bring it inside and then drag it upstairs to our TV room.



The next image shows you that our Sumo Lounge Sway Couple showed up in a thick poly bag to protect it on its journey. Just to drive this point home of how large the packaging is, we actually had to take the door off of its hinges to get it inside. It probably wouldn't have been the case if we'd bothered to take it out of the box, but we weren't sure what to expect so we left it in.



Once we opened the box, we found that the chair is completely assembled and wrapped in a vacuum-sealed polyethylene bag, shown once again in the image below. Here comes the other reason why you will need help; getting that chair out of the box took some work. My recommendation is to have one person hold on to the packaging for dear life, while the other grabs onto the plastic wrap and pulls with all their might.



After I stopped laughing at my husband who almost fell down the stairs with the chair landing on top of him, we carefully cut into the vacuum wrap and waited for the awesome inflation of the chair as it was released from its confines. It wasn't as impressive as I'd hoped, but the chair did puff nicely and with only a little pushing and prodding, it took shape.