This isn't really about housecleaning, but it's part of the house-revamping process....
Having been to IKEA for reconnaissance 85 times in the last several months, we were finally ready to purchase some new living room furniture.
IKEA is sort of like Toys 'R' Us for grownups. Cool stuff, up to the (very high) rafters..........
We like their spare Scandinavian design, and admire the engineering (which extends to their carts -- all the wheels swivel, making it much easier to push them than carts with two fixed wheels!).
We needed two carts. Our good old minivan was easily up to the task of carrying it home. We dicussed whether it would have fit in the little car, and I suggested that we could shift it all into the little car to see, but we didn't do that. Some of those boxes are quite heavy.
Unpacking and construction is underway.
Wibber went to the vet on Saturday for the third time in as many weeks. The first two were because his right eye was gooey.
For the previous couple of days, I'd thought he was droopy, and we were discussing whether to take him in on Saturday morning when he started to shiver. Oy vey.
His regular doc was there and able to see him. He had a fever, but nothing else could be determined by prodding or poking (he had a blood count, which was all just fine, whew!).
She wanted to put him on doxycycline, as a broad-spectrum antibiotic, and see if that fixed him before we started looking for ickier things.
He had the first dose Saturday night, and in the middle of the night was pretty unhappy. He was hot, and breathing rather quickly in that sighing almost-whine........ He and I went downstairs, and he went out, and then we stayed on the family room couch for several hours. He was sleeping without sighing, and I read an ok but not great novel.
Sunday morning he had his second dose of doxy, and by noon his ears felt much cooler than they had in the middle of the night.
Huzzah.
You know we were glad to see him interested in helping with furniture construction on Sunday afternoon.
These cabinets will hold stereo/tv components and media, once they have doors, drawers, etc.
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3 comments:
Isn't it like starting all over (in at least one part of the house)? I can't wait to see the final result. The floor looks great by the way!
Thanks!
Yes, just like starting all over.
We are happy with the black cabinets, but I am having reservations about the two Poang chairs. You can get them in a bunch of different frame colors (from very pale birch to black), with a bunch of different fabric choices on the cushions (also in a range of color/value from white to black).
I picked beech frames (lightish, but not as light as birch), and light green cushions. Then when the whole pile of cardboard boxes and green cushions (in plastic bags) were sitting on the floor, I realized that it's all the same value.............
The couch (they had NO couches of the model we want when we were there on Friday!) will be very dark gray. I decided it was better to show the hair than the dirt........... So the black cabinets are very stand-out-from-the-floor-and-walls, and the couch will be likewise, so are the chairs going to be able to stand up to them, or will they just get lost?
Sigh.
And you can't return things after you build them, so we have to commit one way or the other without seeing them.........
I did realize that the chairs will be seen against the wall, too. They are a very different value than the wall..............
And at this point they are the only color in the room, so from close up, they'll have that to give them some significance.
I've never understood before how people complain about "too many decisions" when doing a remodel or a build.
Isn't that the fun part?
I now realize that it's fun for the first 7,000 decisions, and then it gets less so.
Particularly when you are constantly making decisions with insufficient data!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wibber looks like he is being very helpful indeed
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