Still an unholy mess, and no end in sight. (NB: If you’re feeling stalkerish, go to the Flickr pages for these photos for my notes.)
Left photo: other side of room. Right: my overspill into the family room outside. I might still have a couple of boxes floating around the garage. Ray’s bringing over a suitbag with more stuff too. My wardrobe’s stuffed to the gills. One day…one day I shall go through everything and try to get rid of stuff. D:
In other news all the cardboard packaging that is flooding in with the furniture is making for a pretty stuffed recycling bin. It’s not particularly big, and they only collect every two weeks. The situation is getting pretty desperate, with my parents dumping recycling over at Dad’s work. Soon, we’ll have to start tossing out the excess into normal trash. My heart is bleeding!
Also, have decided to get these BESTA bookshelves from Ikea:
I might get high gloss white doors for it, and maybe install some drawers too.
I’ll also need a chest of drawers. Thinking of something similar to this:
Hemnes chest of 8 drawers, Ikea.
Some sort of white solid wood double bed like this (the mattress is waaaay too thin and the bed doesn’t look as good in this catalogue photo as in the showroom pics)
Hemnes bed frame, Ikea
And then a light writing desk sort of like this:
Maybe even some sort of modern take on a classic design like Gustav, but in white:
(Or Gustav without the shelves?)
“But what about avoiding Ikea!?”, you say? Yes well besides the Besta bookshelf which my parents assure me is the best system going around, the other furniture pics are just general ideas. And I still haven’t found my perfect desk yet. Seems like a lot of furniture shopping is in order. Gah.
So far white seems to be the predominant colour throughout the whole house, so I figured, why mess with the system? Colour can be provided by flashy throw pillows and bedspreads that can be changed easily. In the meantime the white furniture should make my cramped room look bigger.
Oh and I want to get this black and white striped throw rug, because I love stripes! Especially black and white ones! I’ve made a good couple of impulse purchases recently merely because they were stripey!
