Old lady house

Making chocolate chip cookies in Kathleen Holmes dollhouse kitchen

We may not know how to describe it very well, but we all recognize "old person" smell whenever it happens to grace our nostrils. But while the scent may be ubiquitous, its causes are a little less clear.

We just finished reupholstering our "little old lady sofa." We took the sofa from my grandmother's friend who was downsizing and needed to remove some of her furniture. My grandmother thought of me because I was in the market for a new sofa for the living room, and I was happy to check it out. But ...