DELIVER ME FROM IKEA (Part II)
My bedroom was okay. The furniture was obtained back at a time when I guarded the pennies like a jail-house warden. It wasn’t a top priority to get new furniture ever, after all one only sleeps in ones bedroom, that and.. well.. you know.
When I moved into this apartment the tiny attic room was first used as my studio from where I would work. However, with its slanting roof, lack of big windows and poor ventilation within a few months I decided that swap the studio and my bedroom around. Attic rooms are cool as bedrooms too, and the slanted ceilings aren’t nearly as much of a problem when you’re laying down.
The room lacked ambience though. Cool as it was, it just didn’t have the right ‘feel.’ So I ventured to the hardware store and bought a dark redy brown terracota paint to cover the then white walls. The woodwork around the disused fireplace and skirting board was to be painted ‘Indian dusk’ a very slightly yellow shade of beige. However, budget restrictions being that they were I had to go for the cheap paint, and as so often is the case with cheap paint, the color on the tin simply wasn’t the color that ended up on the wall. The terracota was a deep blood red and the ‘India dusk’ was flat out yellow! Mix that with my blue bedroom carpet and you have yourself an interesting mix. Somehow the color combination worked, and my bedroom was transformed into a very chilled out space indeed, I loved it!
In fact I still love my bedroom, but just as has happened before, I ended up in Ikea and ended up quite involuntarily purchasing new stuff. Stuff for the bedroom.
Now I only bought a couple of wardrobes and a chest of drawers. The old furniture had served me well but the day had come for it to be replaced. The drawers went to my mate Philly (who recently broke his neck without realizing it!) with the old shelves and wardrobe having to be dismantled and burned (I always like a good fire).
However, as much fun as it might be to actually choose new furniture from Ikea, constructing it is a whole other deal. It seemed to be going very well until I realized that I had the base of the first unit on the wrong way round, then a little while later I had to dismantle the unit completely because the holes for the shelves were on the outside! It ended up taking me all night and most of the next day to actually assemble, and reassemble the furniture, de-assemble the old furniture, reorganize the clothes and get everything in place!
In the end though it’s been worth it. The new furniture looks very at home in my fire engine red bedroom which really looks its best when its lit only by candles! Pictures don’t ever seem to really show this room in its best light. So once again I have fed the Ikea animal within. And you know, I never meant to get the new stuff. The only reason I was going to Ikea was to buy a £15 Yucca tree!
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Wrote the following comment on May 18, 2005 at 5:47 pm
I love IKEA, its a guilty pleasure, and don’t mind my bragging but im a whiz at putting it all together too! I also love red paint. :)
Wrote the following comment on May 19, 2005 at 1:59 am
The Yucca is downstairs in the lounge. Because my bedroom is so dark nothing really grows there. I need to find a couple of very low light plants and see if they’ll grow. The plant that is hanging down from the wardobe in the picture above isn’t real! :-)
Wrote the following comment on May 18, 2005 at 6:47 pm
so where’s the Yucca?
Wrote the following comment on May 18, 2005 at 6:51 pm
the candles pic is great. very swanky palace you’ve got there.
Wrote the following comment on May 18, 2005 at 8:40 pm
so much better and once again, IKEA rocks!
Wrote the following comment on May 19, 2005 at 5:31 am
i too thoroughly enjoy ikea! your room looks great! and your profile pic is hysterical!!! xx
Wrote the following comment on May 19, 2005 at 1:33 pm
If the walls could speak I’d have to move i think!! :-)
So hey, red walls is a bold statement? What does that statement say then?
Wrote the following comment on May 19, 2005 at 5:50 am
Love the new look. It looks so tidy and modern. I have a burnt orange living room and it looks best at night with candles and low lights on. There are such plants out there. One is clalled a closet plant (wish I had a picture) that does very well in low lihjt spots. It has dark green leaves with a white bloom that comes up the center. Know what I’m talking about??
Wrote the following comment on May 19, 2005 at 6:16 am
I hear fungus grows really well in the dark….. (that was gross, but what can I say, I’m still bored out of my skull).
I like the Yucca…. people eat Yucca. I’ve eaten yucca, i think it tasted kind of like potatoe.
hmmmm… the TV? I mostly position it and the lighting according to glares… glares destroy TV watching for me…. oh.. and I should set up pics of our corner desk from Ikea… it’s really cool looking.
Wrote the following comment on May 19, 2005 at 8:56 am
it looks a ton better! ::::wavin::: hi
Wrote the following comment on May 19, 2005 at 9:54 am
I’ve see that wardrobe at our Ikea! I love Ikea, or actually I’m in love with the idea of Ikea but I rarely buy anything there except odds and ends. I do have to go about twice a year and see if there’s anything new that I can’t live without.
I love the red, esp. the candlelit one. Red makes such a bold statement.
Wrote the following comment on May 19, 2005 at 11:03 am
I love your furniture! One of my friends has the same stuff you do! Everything looks excellent on your red walls. Nooiiiice!
Wrote the following comment on May 19, 2005 at 1:20 pm
Yeah, Pam does it have anything to do with Bush, uuhhh, I mean Mr. Bush, Oh, sorry I just saw Simon with his arm around G. Bush…
Wrote the following comment on May 19, 2005 at 1:21 pm
Just kidding…. lol.