The good weather is coming to an end here so MK decided that it was high time to buy some garden furniture. That can only mean one thing: A trip to Ikea and the opportunity to disagree about stuff. My approach to the exercise was to acquiesce to anything and come home with whatever it took to make the home maker happy and I think we more or less succeeded in that mission. We now have the above table and 4 chairs (3 of which are still in their foetal flat pack stage), some cushions, several large plastic boxes for "stuff in the basement" and a number of boxes for "stuff upstairs". We are planning a course of tidying by putting things in boxes. This is an approach that I hope will prove quite successful and at the same time merely hide the mess behind fancy cardboard wall.The heaviest item of the trip was the 37kg chest of drawers for J's room. I can't believe you can get such a heavy piece of furniture for so little money. Now I need to brush up on the flat pack construction skills...
Do you have to paint it to match the bed?
ReplyDeleteThere will be more summer for you to use the furniture later in the year.
m
I have carefully planned it so that there is no painting to be done this time as it is season for painting the window frames.
ReplyDeleteA bit of oil on the new garden furniture would not be a bad thing though.
MK
How about the eves whilst he's up there?
ReplyDeletem
It's summer, leave the naked chest bare. You can cover it in winter.
ReplyDeleteBeryl Burton is a Yorkshire famous world champion racing cyclist.Doh