POW: Sittin Pretty

Target has their leather chairs on sale this week. I've giving them my Product of the Week selection. I've been stalking chairs all over the tri-city area and on the interweb for months now trying to find a nice pair for our little reading nook area (read: the weird top of the L-shaped living room that is too small for a couch.) And, ps, can I just say that I was shocked at how expensive chairs are?
Perhaps by virtue of living in a tiny apartment in Japan and then an only slightly larger tiny apartment in NY, we've never found ourselves in need of chairs beyond the normal dining and office types. But now we've graduated to sunny CA living where space is not as tight and closets are a-plenty*, thus leaving corners that would normally need to contain some kind of fancy streamlined storage unit (read: a portable heater with stacks of papers/clothes/boxes precariously balanced on it when not in use) bare and available for a comfy chair and perhaps a nice plant. And so began the hunt. It's been a long hunt because it turns out it's hard to find a chair that isn't your grandparents' La-Z-Boy or part of the college dorm greatest hits parade for less than several hundred bucks.
This brings me to the chair pictured above. We purchased it yesterday from the close-by Seaside Target* and now it sits in a very sunny* area of our L-shaped (L as in the letter, not as in Laurel. It's not a Laurel-shaped room. A room that was me-shaped would be tall and monkey-armed... difficult to decorate, indeed. But it would be full of cupcakes, so that's good. But I digress) room. Totally comfy, total bargain.
We also bought some shelves so the reading nook can now also contain not only a place to sit but also books. (I find those are important in reading nooks; without them how do you know what kind of nook you are in?)
I'd really like a cool patterned fabric chair for that area too, to break up what now may be coined as the sea of leather that is our living room. I read in a decor mag once that all rooms should have some piece or element that doesn't look anything like the rest of the room-- just to make it interesting and not matchy-matchy. If anyone knows of a good place for nicely-priced chairs, do tell. (And please no advice about Craigslist. I have a rule about used things and it is that if it is used and can, or at any point could, absorb liquid or house a nest of any kind, I don't want it.)
When the nook is more complete I will take a picture and you can say to yourself, "My, what a wonderful sunny nook that is. And look! Books! Books in the nook."
Then you'll probably laugh at yourself for sounding like Dr. Seuss.
But we'd all still be happy that I found my chairs and shelves and other accoutrement that make a nook a nook in one L-shaped room, for one Laurel-shaped me.

*Reason why you should move to Monterey.