Some Assembly Required
19/4/14 19:24![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
The four hour delivery window stretched into a day and a half, but IKEA's trucking contractor did finally show up this evening, and a couple of cheery fellows brought 445 kg of flatpack furniture and hardware right into the bedroom for me.

Four wardrobes with six doors, a bed, a headboard, and some storage cabinets. *cracks knuckles*
*gets to work*

Four wardrobes with six doors, a bed, a headboard, and some storage cabinets. *cracks knuckles*
*gets to work*
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20/4/14 06:55 (UTC)(no subject)
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20/4/14 14:12 (UTC)(Is it weird I'm excited by the prospect of a pile of furniture to assemble? Even though something's bound to be off kilter or just small bits of hardware missing?)
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20/4/14 15:12 (UTC)(no subject)
20/4/14 16:24 (UTC)Instead I live with a jumble of mis-matched items from a wide range of styles, a few of which I made. Bet you would hate it!
Hopemyou get ever so much stuff put together, and put away!
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20/4/14 19:21 (UTC)For my personality, IKEA cabinetry is just right in almost every respect--the plain lines, the clever engineering, the European sensibility, and the way it works in small spaces--but their chairs and sofas feel pretty chintzy to me and I'd rather spend more elsewhere on those furnishings. There's some DIY in this project too: I've reclaimed a chair that I'll be reupholstering (in purple velvet), and I'm hacking a headboard out of parts from IKEA and elsewhere.
I find an austere interior peaceful. I've been glad not to have to accommodate someone else's style in this bedroom design, because it definitely doesn't accord with many people's notions of comfort. But every time I look into the almost-finished room, I sort of sigh in contentment.
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