It is true. We now actually own a piece of furniture to sit on!! Goodbye beach chairs, I shall not miss you one little bit. Ahhh to be able to put your feet up on something more than cardboard. Life is good.
Here is our couch: his name is Kivik. & this is our coffee table Lack (not our names, thank Ikea).
step 1: hold your breath while 2 very sweet guys brought in some SUPER LARGE boxes. so so SO close to touching the walls. [apartment living - & paying deposits - has made me overly paranoid about wall scratches & marks]
kivik & lack - in box
step 2: assembly
my chaise!!
heck yes I assembled that much all by myself!! but then it got a bit hairy so I waited until some back up came home from work…
reinforcement
notice that horrible interesting playoff beard. yeah that puppy is GONE!! I am quite thankful. he looked handsome with a beard, but I prefer him with just a little scruff, not a forest of it. we decided there are 2 times a year (totally 4 months) that a beard is allowed: May & June (hockey playoffs) & November & December (winter).
Oh yeah, the cats were a big help too:
.... it is best not to ask
cushion durability tester
But after a few creative interpretations about what the heck Ikea was trying to tell us in the pictures….
step 3: a living room!!
step 4: enjoy it
- my boys
Ben’s face is priceless. But that is sort of how we felt. Needless to say, we have spent an awful lot of time on mister Kivik since we entered our lives thanks to an extra long weekend.
& that chaise. oh how I love MY chaise.
&& I plan on making some giant cuddly pillows with this stripe blue Ikea fabric I bought. But that will have to wait until the sewing machine arrives, which should be Thursday. So now it is off to find some blogs to teach me how to make a pillow cover/ pillow case. Hmmm, where to go first?
&&& I started applying for jobs today. I had forgotten how much of a pain filling out online applications are. I miss the days of just bringing people a resume & letting them judge you based on that. Hopefully I will not need to fill out too many of those.
June 2nd, 2011 at 6:58 pm
I used to have the same exact coffee table. We didn’t have room for it when we moved into our house, though so I sold it. Be careful about how many coffee table books you stack on the bottom. My friend had one as well and his bottom shelf broke on it.
June 3rd, 2011 at 7:32 pm
Cid one of our cats (10lbs) likes to sleep under there. If anything happens to it, I am blaming him. But since he likes to lay there we probably will not be putting anything else under there. Otherwise he will just push it onto the floor.
January 12th, 2012 at 1:48 pm
[...] I wrote all about those awesome state prints & the whole mess of it almost 7 months ago [omg that feels like just yesterday] on this post. There is also a past post about the love affair [that continues to this day] that I have with my couch. [...]