Ikea, I curse your distance.
Damn Ikea.
Why would they build TWO stores near Chicago, and NONE near me? I still have to make a 14 hour round trip!?!
Road trips are hard enough to plan, let alone when I have a kid and a friend named Dave, and 42 pieces of furniture to put in my car! Graaagr!
I have wanted one of these shelving units forever.
The one time I did go to Ikea, I couldn't buy one.
Why?
Because if I brought it home and assembled it in my apartment, I'd never be able to get it out of my apartment again. That's the funny thing about apartment living, you never move in without plans to eventually move out. The permanence of a house purchase with a 30 year loan both excites and utterly terrifies me.
Anyway, I also want to get the smaller shelf unit of that series for my painting room, and I will get the attachments with drawers for storing paint tubes. (Yay! There is an entire room that will be devoted to painting!)
I want to get one of these cabinets to hang on the wall in the living room, to keep keys in and write down important things we have to do that day. (the cabinet door is a chalk board!)
The kitchen will eventually need to be redone. It's not a very good use of space, and it's a small space. Plus, there are some missing drawers from the cabinets and stuff like that, so yeah. Updates will eventually be needed. For the meantime, we're going to decorate it with a Serenity theme, because we're big dorks, and because, well, what else can you do in a kitchen with flip-down burners?
I've been lusting after new cabinets and fittings, even though major remodeling projects like that will have to happen at a much later date.
First, we make it functional. Then we save up for the pretty extras.
I am a bit disappointed in Ikea's fridge selection, though. I thought European refrigerators were smaller? I don't need anything huge. I never have my fridge more than half full anyway.
Our house comes with no fridge. I'm thinking something like this would do nicely. I was hoping to find something similar on craigslist, but the bar fridges I found all had tiny or nonexistent freezers. I need a freezer at least big enough for a few bags of frozen veggies.
I'd like to knock out half of the kitchen, and just have an under-counter fridge and under-counter oven along one side of it so I have more space. The kitchen is like a narrow corridor. There's no elbow room at all, because there's counters along one side, and appliances along the other. Why not get under-counter appliances so you can open up the other side and have room to breathe?
Hmm.
I definitely want to wait until after closing to buy anything at all, though. We might wind up having no choice but to get a $15 tiny craigslist fridge, which is fine by me.
Also, this baking dish looks like a bedpan.
Why would they build TWO stores near Chicago, and NONE near me? I still have to make a 14 hour round trip!?!
Road trips are hard enough to plan, let alone when I have a kid and a friend named Dave, and 42 pieces of furniture to put in my car! Graaagr!
I have wanted one of these shelving units forever.
The one time I did go to Ikea, I couldn't buy one.
Why?
Because if I brought it home and assembled it in my apartment, I'd never be able to get it out of my apartment again. That's the funny thing about apartment living, you never move in without plans to eventually move out. The permanence of a house purchase with a 30 year loan both excites and utterly terrifies me.
Anyway, I also want to get the smaller shelf unit of that series for my painting room, and I will get the attachments with drawers for storing paint tubes. (Yay! There is an entire room that will be devoted to painting!)
I want to get one of these cabinets to hang on the wall in the living room, to keep keys in and write down important things we have to do that day. (the cabinet door is a chalk board!)
The kitchen will eventually need to be redone. It's not a very good use of space, and it's a small space. Plus, there are some missing drawers from the cabinets and stuff like that, so yeah. Updates will eventually be needed. For the meantime, we're going to decorate it with a Serenity theme, because we're big dorks, and because, well, what else can you do in a kitchen with flip-down burners?
I've been lusting after new cabinets and fittings, even though major remodeling projects like that will have to happen at a much later date.
First, we make it functional. Then we save up for the pretty extras.
I am a bit disappointed in Ikea's fridge selection, though. I thought European refrigerators were smaller? I don't need anything huge. I never have my fridge more than half full anyway.
Our house comes with no fridge. I'm thinking something like this would do nicely. I was hoping to find something similar on craigslist, but the bar fridges I found all had tiny or nonexistent freezers. I need a freezer at least big enough for a few bags of frozen veggies.
I'd like to knock out half of the kitchen, and just have an under-counter fridge and under-counter oven along one side of it so I have more space. The kitchen is like a narrow corridor. There's no elbow room at all, because there's counters along one side, and appliances along the other. Why not get under-counter appliances so you can open up the other side and have room to breathe?
Hmm.
I definitely want to wait until after closing to buy anything at all, though. We might wind up having no choice but to get a $15 tiny craigslist fridge, which is fine by me.
Also, this baking dish looks like a bedpan.