Do-It-Yourself. No, really.
As part of our obsessive apartment redecoration stint, we decided to build a headboard for our bed. All we needed was a piece of plywood, upholstery foam, and fabric.
We chose fabric on Thursday right after work at a store close to our offices. But being after 6 pm on the Thursday night before the long weekend, we were in a bit of a pinch to find a store that would carry upholstery foam and plywood.
We decided that if we were going to a) drive, and b) to a big-box store, that it had at least better be Canadian-owned. So off to RONA we went.
I have to say, our experience at RONA took DIY to a whole new level. Having found the lumber section, we waited for about 10 minutes at what appeared to be the order desk. When no one came to help us, we chased store workers around until finally one stopped for us and told us we needed to go to the Cut Shop. He showed us where that was and paged the Cut Shop Guy. Things were looking up.
Cut Shop Guy asked us how cheap we wanted to go with the wood. We answered cheap, so he told us to go down that aisle, turn right, and grab the wood in the cart. So we headed down the aisle, turned right and saw a cash desk (complete with yawning cashier) and a door to the pitch-black outdoors. This can't be right. So we headed back and tried the next right turn. Lots of drywall, no plywood. So we went back and asked Bored Young Cashier for help. She called Cut Shop Guy and told us to go see him again. He now had other customers to "deal with" and half-yelled down the aisle something more-or-less like , "turn there and keep going". He meant head past the cashier and out into the dark abandoned garden centre. We tentatively stepped outside and looked around for plywood, wondering when the secret mob deal was about to start. We found three sheets of wet plywood loaded onto a cart covered in snow. After 45 minutes of this adventure we'd had enough. We'd tried to be good Canadians, we really had.
We drove over to brightly-lit Home Depot and although they didn't carry upholstery foam, we had a clean, dry sheet of cheap plywood loaded into our car in under 15 minutes.
We chose fabric on Thursday right after work at a store close to our offices. But being after 6 pm on the Thursday night before the long weekend, we were in a bit of a pinch to find a store that would carry upholstery foam and plywood.
We decided that if we were going to a) drive, and b) to a big-box store, that it had at least better be Canadian-owned. So off to RONA we went.
I have to say, our experience at RONA took DIY to a whole new level. Having found the lumber section, we waited for about 10 minutes at what appeared to be the order desk. When no one came to help us, we chased store workers around until finally one stopped for us and told us we needed to go to the Cut Shop. He showed us where that was and paged the Cut Shop Guy. Things were looking up.
Cut Shop Guy asked us how cheap we wanted to go with the wood. We answered cheap, so he told us to go down that aisle, turn right, and grab the wood in the cart. So we headed down the aisle, turned right and saw a cash desk (complete with yawning cashier) and a door to the pitch-black outdoors. This can't be right. So we headed back and tried the next right turn. Lots of drywall, no plywood. So we went back and asked Bored Young Cashier for help. She called Cut Shop Guy and told us to go see him again. He now had other customers to "deal with" and half-yelled down the aisle something more-or-less like , "turn there and keep going". He meant head past the cashier and out into the dark abandoned garden centre. We tentatively stepped outside and looked around for plywood, wondering when the secret mob deal was about to start. We found three sheets of wet plywood loaded onto a cart covered in snow. After 45 minutes of this adventure we'd had enough. We'd tried to be good Canadians, we really had.
We drove over to brightly-lit Home Depot and although they didn't carry upholstery foam, we had a clean, dry sheet of cheap plywood loaded into our car in under 15 minutes.