Last weekend (November 17th-19th), deliriumdreams and I drove out to Phoenix.

One of our main goals was to buy a bunch of stuff at Ikea in Tempe, Arizona, as that's the closest Ikea store to Albuquerque. We also wanted to visit with some of our friends out there.

( a 53-hour tour )

Damn.

I thought I was pretty good at assembling Ikea bits, since I had a fair assortment of their stuff at my old apartment in San Diego. Little did I know that bookshelves and even tables are nothing, nothing, compared to cabinetry.

deliriumdreams thought that a freestanding cabinet would give us a lot more countertop space and under-counter storage in the ( Read more... )