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82 Best Amazon Prime Furniture Deals During Prime Day 2022 to Upgrade Your Space

  • July 14, 2022

Prime Day 2022 is officially here, which means some of the best Amazon Prime furniture deals and home decor scores we’ve seen all year. To simplify the madness that can occur when shopping over the 48-hour sale-athon, we’ve highlighted all of the home upgrades Prime members will need to design a Clever-approved space—starting with furniture and expanding into bedroom accessories, cooking essentials, and tech to smarten up your home. Make sure you don’t spend too much time deliberating on your purchases. The best goods tend to sell out quickly and Lightning Deals expire in a matter of hours, so it might warrant checking the site a few times if you can’t find that certain something on your wish list. Though if you’re looking for the top-tier Prime Day deals on mattresses, Instant Pots, air purifiers, and more, we’ve got recs for just that too.

Shop Prime Day furniture deals by category:

And if you’re curious about the best deals going on this week from retailers that aren’t on Amazon, check out what Target, Brooklinen, Walmart, and more are offering up in this roundup. 

Best furniture deals: Couches, chairs, and tables

Finding the best Amazon Prime furniture can definitely feel like a challenge, which is why we’ve gone ahead and done the work for you. Whether you’re looking for a modest home office upgrade, some extra storage, or in the mood to splurge on a comfy sectional sofa, check back here to find all of the best furniture deals from this year’s sale.

Struggling to find furniture that’ll fit your small space? Here’s a computer desk that’s petite enough for even the tiniest studio apartments.

Marshall 3-Shelf Metal Rolling Utility Cart

A utility cart always comes in handy, whether for storage or as a bar cart.

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Rare corpse flower blooming at Missouri Botanical Garden

  • July 14, 2022

The Garden opened for evening viewings of the flower Tuesday night starting at 7 p.m. but after overwhelming demand, no one arriving after 10 p.m. would be allowed.

ST. LOUIS — A rare occurrence is happening now at the Missouri Botanical Garden, and you can see and smell it.

Luna, a 31-pound corpse flower, is blooming Tuesday night six years after arriving at MoBOT as a seedling. During the process, the plant will emit a foul odor from a tall spike of flowers, which often lasts just one day.

A press release from the Missouri Botanical Garden said the corpse flower usually opens quickly in the late afternoon, and the peak bloom usually comes after dark.

The Missouri Botanical Garden said it would the process started Tuesday evening and will continue through the night. The Garden said it would open for evening viewings of the flower Tuesday night starting at 7 p.m. with last entry at midnight, but due to overwhelming demand, no visitors who arrived after 10 p.m. would be allowed inside. Admission was free.

The Climatron will be reopening at 7 a.m. and closes at 5 p.m. Admission is $6 for St. Louis or St. Louis County residents and $14 for non-residents.

You can also watch the bloom on the Missouri Botanical Garden YouTube channel.

Luna’s bloom is the 12th corpse flower bloom that has occurred at the Missouri Botanical Garden since 2012. The most recent bloom was in 2021, when a flower named Octavia bloomed.

Corpse flowers can take five to 10 years to grow until it is ready for their first bloom. Corpse flowers bloom every one to two years after the first bloom. 

Octavia first bloomed in July 2017 and attempted again in July 2019, when it grew to a record 93

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Belmont residents gets feel for new home before renovating it

  • July 14, 2022

Many people who buy a home that hasn’t been updated since the 1950s would want to do a major renovation before moving in. However, Belmont residents Rita and Sarkis Chekijian did the reverse. They purchased a home and decided to live in it first with their three children before making any decisions about the renovation.

After selling their Watertown home, they moved in with Sarkis’s parents on Woodfall Road in Belmont while looking for a place to live. What was supposed to be a few months turned into 18 months before they learned about a home just a few doors down the street.

The owner had died and the Chekijians were able to purchase 56 Woodfall Road in 2014 for $850,000 through a private sale. It’s a ranch-style home built in 1956 with four bedrooms, a two-car garage, living room, dining room, kitchen and three full bathrooms.

Work continues on the addition Sarkis and Rita Chekijian are having put on their Belmont home, July 8, 2022.

Now, eight years later and a little longer than they originally planned, they have temporarily moved out of their home while it is partially gutted for updated electrical wiring, a major renovation of the kitchen and bathrooms and the addition of a new half bathroom, family room, four-season sun room, exercise room, storage closets and a farmer’s porch. 

Russell Amaral, of Dream Builders, cuts planks for the new front porch at 56 Woodfall Road in Belmont, July 8, 2022.

Why they waited

It was not their dream house, but the Chekijians said they loved the neighborhood and location down the street from Sarkis’s parents, who bought their home in 1989.

They knew they wanted to make changes to the house, but felt it was important to get a feel for the space first. 

More:Belmont business can tell you how to repair or renovate your house and make it into a home

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While they would

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