New furniture

[frualeydis]

Today we bought a new couch and two armchairs from IKEA (one of the cheapest ones, but also one of those I liked best) and I feel so established; I mean: actually buying new furniture. When we bought our bed some years ago (also IKEA) it felt big, but this is bigger. It feels weird that we actually can afford it, but we can, despite the fact that my husband is a clerk at a supermarket (not a well paid job in Sweden either) and I'm mostly on a sick pension. Of course it means that almost all our savings are gone, but the old couch and armchairs were falling apart and we couldn't fix them anymore.
It feels exciting.

Comments

[sneprinsesse.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! All our "new" furniture is IKEA. And there's some old furniture here as well. But our bookshelves are not IKEA, we didn't want smiling-Billy.

Which did you get?

[frualeydis.livejournal.com]

Ektorp i dark blue and Ektorp Tullsta armchairs in the same fabric.

/Eva

[paleolithical.livejournal.com]

We have bignum billies (they are ok, and cheap). But I'm getting more and more disgusted with most furniture we can afford, so my long term plan is to
(1) set up an useful woodworking shop, and (2) make replacements for all crappy chipboard stuff. Out of real wood, with real joinery, painted with linseed oil paint. The idea is to start with stuff destined to become storage shelves (etc), and once I am satisfied with the result letting them push the billies and their ilk out of the house, one piece at a time. By the time I'm dead there should be nothing but "nice" furniture for the kids to drive to the dump or chop up for firewood!

I like the 18th century Swedish carpentry style ("Gustavian") for most things, and fortunately it was generally made from wood I can afford (pine), rather than expensive stuff.

Of course, there is a very nice bookcase pattern I saw that I like; each shelf is a separate box (sides, top, bottom and back) You simply make them in standard sizes for different size books, and stack them as high as the walls will allow. Make handle cutouts in the sides and you can also use them as moving boxes for the books!

[idahoswede.livejournal.com]

I bought my first refrigerator and washing machine last winter - I felt SO grown up.

[myralea.livejournal.com]

sounds wonderful, ektorp is a nice collection!!

we have just decided to buy a new bed and for the first time ever when i've been buying real new furniture (i.e. not antique and second hand bargains..) it is NOT going to be IKEA! that also feels quite big and grown up!
and actually, the total price won't actually be more than a IKEA alternativ.

[annalindqvist.livejournal.com]

We have Ektorp too, in beige... :-D

[frualeydis.livejournal.com]

Beige doesn't work with us, we need darker, more forgiving colours ;)

/Eva

[paleolithical.livejournal.com]

If you pick a dark color they/you will spill something light colored on it. The reverse is of course also true! You can't win.

[steelweaver.livejournal.com]

Also, if you have a cat, this will be the point where you find out that even if their outer fur is dark, their underfur is still a lightish grey.

[frualeydis.livejournal.com]

He's yellow, with lots of white hairs underneath. We'll ahve ot live with that - at least you can brush them away.

/Eva