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darkemeraldsI've been so immersed in my bedroom remodeling project for the last couple of weeks that I'm dreaming about it. I can--for the moment--recite IKEA cabinetry dimensions and all the Swedish product names, as well as every measurement of my room.
Designs, like writing, improve with a good beta or editor. In the absence of a professional interior designer, I submitted my floorplan and samples to a some of my talented friends.ravurian instantly saw a better layout than had ever so much as crossed my mind, which I immediately adopted. roseambr gave me some important feedback on colors and the floor heat. A neighbor who knows his way around electrical work is going to stop by tomorrow (and probably tell me I can't afford everything I want).
So I've been nudging Pax wardrobes and Akurum kitchen cabinets around pixel by pixel on my floorplan, obsessively watching how-to videos (LED strip lighting!), and searching Ikeahackers.net to find out if I can actually do some of the hacks I have in mind.
The giant magenta pillow is...well, a giant magenta pillow. The fuchsia rectangle just above it is the storage headboard. Which I'm hacking together out of incompatible IKEA parts.
I found the right rug from some very nice folks on Etsy, and ordered it:
Several polyesters died...
The old closet is about...40% gone, maybe?
Hacking away at it a little at a time
And most of my photos lately look like this:
How did we deal with IKEA before instant-upload phone-cam pictures?
So I'm having fun. Obsessive, totally absorbing fun.
Designs, like writing, improve with a good beta or editor. In the absence of a professional interior designer, I submitted my floorplan and samples to a some of my talented friends.
ravurian instantly saw a better layout than had ever so much as crossed my mind, which I immediately adopted. roseambr gave me some important feedback on colors and the floor heat. A neighbor who knows his way around electrical work is going to stop by tomorrow (and probably tell me I can't afford everything I want).So I've been nudging Pax wardrobes and Akurum kitchen cabinets around pixel by pixel on my floorplan, obsessively watching how-to videos (LED strip lighting!), and searching Ikeahackers.net to find out if I can actually do some of the hacks I have in mind.
The giant magenta pillow is...well, a giant magenta pillow. The fuchsia rectangle just above it is the storage headboard. Which I'm hacking together out of incompatible IKEA parts.
I found the right rug from some very nice folks on Etsy, and ordered it:
Several polyesters died...
The old closet is about...40% gone, maybe?
Hacking away at it a little at a time
And most of my photos lately look like this:
How did we deal with IKEA before instant-upload phone-cam pictures?
So I'm having fun. Obsessive, totally absorbing fun.