On Friday, Ban and I made the pilgrimage to IKEA and bought four Expedit shelving units, a desk that hooks in, and two office chairs. This is what my car looked like after we loaded up.
We spent the next seven hours assembling our purchases while trying to make sense of IKEA's wordless instructions.
On Saturday, we cleaned out the old desk and gathered books, office supplies, printing stuff, etc. which has previously been scattered in various places around the house. Once everything was organized, we started filling up the space.
Here's the final product. I'm thrilled with the way that it turned out! One final postscript, while I was cleaning out the desk, I found this photo of what the space looked like when I bought my place six years ago. Quite a transformation, don't you think?
3 comments:
2 questions:
1) who gets the big chair and who gets the little chair?
2) how could you murder such awesome poop colored shag carpet? If you had your new furniture plus the shag you would have achieved living room nirvana.
Wow! How fun to keep those pictures of how it used to look. You've inspired me to take some pictures this week so I can appreciate whatever changes occur in the future.
Andy: The big chair is mine! We decided to select chairs that felt most comfortable to us rather than picking matching chairs. Although, once assembled, Ban felt as if my chair was "looming over" his chair.
Erin: I photographed my whole house when I moved in. I did a ton of work on it at first but then ran out of energy, money and inclination. I've only got two bathrooms left to remodel and then the whole place will be done. Well, except for the basement. :)
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