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spacebugMore than one person on my flist was making posts about interior decorating today, so maybe there's something in the air.
We took our stack of gift cards to the big blue and yellow box and brought home the third and final expansion for the monolith (which is what our neighbor coined the IKEA corner wardrobe unit that is our closet.)
S4 remarked how easy it is to spend a lot of money there. I realized that it's a lot like what happens at the bead store. You pick out this component and this component and this component and hey, that's $40, that's not so bad... and all of a sudden you realize this semi-custom storage unit you've built in your head costs $300, and you wanted two of them, and blahblahblah. So, our gift cards didn't go as far as I thought they might, but I'm excited 'cause with this purchase, it will bounce out the last remaining piece of the bedroom set I got when I was about six that I was still using. It was a nice bedroom set, classic and well made and you probably wouldn't look at it and scream "wow, that's a dresser for a six-year-old", but it's very small and much more my Mom's style than mine. She's excited to have it back as she has somewhere she wants to use it in her house, and I'm excited to get rid of it, so, it all works out.
Anyway, piece by piece our place is starting to inch its way up to super-awesome instead of merely awesome. Next up is a shelving unit for our linens and bathroom stuff. When you live in an honest-and-true loft, it's amazing how much thought and expense just goes into manufacturing storage solutions. I love the imminent customization and the open-ness, though, so I'm hardly complaining, just sayin'. Other things that we want in descending order of more immediate probable fulfillment: pendulum lights over the kitchen island/ lights for the kitchen shelves, more bookshelves, a couch that's less than 30 years old with no need to hide its horrid palatte under a crappy slipcover, a surround sound system, a more streamlined digital entertainment setup/flat panel TV.
We've also had the idea of turning our loft into a library, which I would love. Right now it holds all the crap that people with normal houses put in a garage- bikes, car stuff, seasonal stuff, random storage, and aaalll the camping gear. We want to rent a storage space so we can clear it out and make it into a functional living space, but the storage units in our building are all rented out and I don't think I quite want it badly enough to rent something that I'd need to leave the building to access. Maybe one day...
We haven't thought too much about more permanent upgrades, though we're technically owners, so we're allowed (though it has to go through a committee approval.) But, S4'd like to re-do the cabinets in the kitchen, and, if we get the dream of the library loft, it'd be cool to make a nicer railing (one that might even be weight bearing), and I really really really want to get one of these. How freakin' awesome and steampunk is that?
Also, I would like a pony.
Because we're all artsy 'n' shit, though, all this kinds of stuff tends to take a backseat to stuff like gear, software, art supplies, and trips to crazy art festivals in the middle of the desert.
hee hee.
We took our stack of gift cards to the big blue and yellow box and brought home the third and final expansion for the monolith (which is what our neighbor coined the IKEA corner wardrobe unit that is our closet.)
S4 remarked how easy it is to spend a lot of money there. I realized that it's a lot like what happens at the bead store. You pick out this component and this component and this component and hey, that's $40, that's not so bad... and all of a sudden you realize this semi-custom storage unit you've built in your head costs $300, and you wanted two of them, and blahblahblah. So, our gift cards didn't go as far as I thought they might, but I'm excited 'cause with this purchase, it will bounce out the last remaining piece of the bedroom set I got when I was about six that I was still using. It was a nice bedroom set, classic and well made and you probably wouldn't look at it and scream "wow, that's a dresser for a six-year-old", but it's very small and much more my Mom's style than mine. She's excited to have it back as she has somewhere she wants to use it in her house, and I'm excited to get rid of it, so, it all works out.
Anyway, piece by piece our place is starting to inch its way up to super-awesome instead of merely awesome. Next up is a shelving unit for our linens and bathroom stuff. When you live in an honest-and-true loft, it's amazing how much thought and expense just goes into manufacturing storage solutions. I love the imminent customization and the open-ness, though, so I'm hardly complaining, just sayin'. Other things that we want in descending order of more immediate probable fulfillment: pendulum lights over the kitchen island/ lights for the kitchen shelves, more bookshelves, a couch that's less than 30 years old with no need to hide its horrid palatte under a crappy slipcover, a surround sound system, a more streamlined digital entertainment setup/flat panel TV.
We've also had the idea of turning our loft into a library, which I would love. Right now it holds all the crap that people with normal houses put in a garage- bikes, car stuff, seasonal stuff, random storage, and aaalll the camping gear. We want to rent a storage space so we can clear it out and make it into a functional living space, but the storage units in our building are all rented out and I don't think I quite want it badly enough to rent something that I'd need to leave the building to access. Maybe one day...
We haven't thought too much about more permanent upgrades, though we're technically owners, so we're allowed (though it has to go through a committee approval.) But, S4'd like to re-do the cabinets in the kitchen, and, if we get the dream of the library loft, it'd be cool to make a nicer railing (one that might even be weight bearing), and I really really really want to get one of these. How freakin' awesome and steampunk is that?
Also, I would like a pony.
Because we're all artsy 'n' shit, though, all this kinds of stuff tends to take a backseat to stuff like gear, software, art supplies, and trips to crazy art festivals in the middle of the desert.
hee hee.
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the fun and frustrations.
Date: 2007-12-28 06:46 am (UTC)I have these issues.
I've been living in my space since September and I'm just now starting to envision what I think I want with everything - sort of.
The hardest thing is the sun room. Originally, I thought I wanted it to be this office. But really, the whole apartment is my "office" and I'm not a sit-at-a-desk-and-be-productive-type person. So now I am thinking that it's going to be more of a reading room. But I have a lot of office kind of stuff that needs to go somewhere. So does it stay there, or go somewhere else? There's a corner of another room where I could put my printers and such. I wish I could figure out how to make them work with my airport again, but I'm not so good with those things. And, do they need to be plugged into it? if so, that is in my sunroom. Damn.
So I guess I can keep them there. But what else stays there?
When you have walls, then you work things out around these walls. But again it comes down to where do I put my stuff so that I can still use my stuff, but so that only the minimum of stuff has to be out in the open for people to see said stuff.
I dream of shelving units stocked with fancy fabric or metal storage boxes like they always end up using on Clean Sweep and Trading Spaces - but for the life of me, I have no idea where they find them so cheaply. I think they lie about the costs, or they do sexual favors for the people at Ikea and Marshall's. Or maybe they are building them closet organizers in exchange for getting a whole closet full of organizers for $27, because whenever I look it's like $10 for 2 boxes.
And I haven't even begun to think about lighting. I should never own a house. Not until I learn that I have some rich dead relative who's left me a trust fund with which to decorate. Or I go on the Price is Right and win an Ikea shopping spree. Or I get really good and shop lifting area rugs.
I'm far too frugal for this stuff.
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Date: 2007-12-28 08:22 pm (UTC)what more adds on to it [it was already huge last time i saw it]?
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Date: 2007-12-28 08:39 pm (UTC)