A friend and I went to Ikea this weekend to find him a bed frame. He came home with nothing and I came home with a present for my mother, two picture frames, a cat painting, and a media storage TV unit-thingy. And I wonder how it is that I have enough crap to fill a two-bedroom apartment.
We put together the media unit on Sunday. It's just particleboard with a birch veneer, but the color is light enough to go with the rest of the furniture in the living room. It has clean lines and should be big enough for all my stuff. And it has cute little doors with really cool hinges. It's so neat the way they fit together. Those engineers are SO clever. It was a bit of a trick putting it together since there were no instructions included in the box. But a quick call to Ikea customer service remedied that as they emailed them to me.
Tonight I'm going to finally unpack the last of the moving boxes - the ones with my DVDs and VHS tapes. I also need to move my little bookcase of cookbooks into the back corner and put my very old stereo in the new unit. Though I must say, my little old 19-inch TV looks very lost on the top of the shelves. But a new TV is not in my future. That will be up to Santa Elf.
I really want to take photos of the place and post them here so everyone can see how it's shaped up. But alas I did not get to keep the digital camera. Add that to the list of things I still need to replace before Christmas.
I really like my new apartment. I think it's shaped up quite nicely. It feels cozy and safe and homey, which is exactly what I wanted. And what I need.
