We decided to go for it and ordered IKEA furniture online. They make you pay a shipping fee, but let me just say that, with our small cars, it would have taken at least 2 trips to get the stuff anyway. So we saved on gas money, food, and time.
Peter was going to go to DC on a work trip, but things got a little crazy with the weather, and it ended up being cancelled (–I know some dictionaries say it’s spelled, “canceled,” but I am of the phonics rule that if you have a syllable with a short vowel sound, when you add -ed, you need to have a double consonant. Ex: sun-ned, rub-bed, surpass-ed [has 2 double S’s at the end already, so you can just add -ed]. You get the idea. I’m an English nerd). Therefore, we didn’t end up getting the panels and coffee table. We are still debating the coffee table, but we found an alternate draping for our window nooks.
The bookcase that was going to go horizontal over the desks is absolutely way too heavy, so that is just not happening. We have another idea for it.
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| You can see the gray wall color we picked and the new door handle that we added to our tiny, minidoor. Now we won’t bang into a doorknob all the time. Yay! The white trim makes such a difference. LOVE IT. |
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| We searched high and low for a cute, white, minifan. The loft has an angled ceiling, so a regular-sized fan just won’t do. |
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| This is my joyous couch. I will let my dogs on this one. For $150, it’s not too shabby. |
Here are some sneak peaks.