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[listersgirl]

I spent last night taking all the books (and cards, and tchotchkes) off my bookcases, moving the bookcases, and putting the books back on. Although not in order, and not even standing upright, because it was late and I was tired. I had to put the books back on the shelves, though, so that they weren't on the floor anymore and I could clear a path for...THE COUCH.

Yes, that's right, I finally bought a damn couch. It's being delivered tonight (did you know that IKEA only does next day delivery? I certainly didn't), so I needed to move the bookcases, because the couch is going where the bookcases are (or were). But anyway, after tonight I will have a couch, and also a new set of shelves for all my board games, because they were getting tired of still being in boxes. And I bought a new shower curtain. But that's not particularly exciting.

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[cangetmad.livejournal.com]

Ikea do a whole lot of odd and inexplicable things, just so that when you question them, they can say "yes, but we're CHEAP, so sod off." Hooray for furniture!

[listersgirl]

Yes, I experienced some of the wonky -- the couch, which does not need to be assembled, was in the "pick it up your damn self" area, all wrapped in plastic, while the bookcase, which is all broken down, required me to get an IKEA person to print me up a ticket for furniture pick-up.

Confusing!

[orionnebula.livejournal.com]

I'm just amazed that Ikea delivers at all.

[listersgirl]

Up to 25 items for a flat fee, and it wasn't even as hideously expensive as I was expecting. Although apparently if you order off the website, delivery is by weight, so that could be deadly.

[morag-gunn.livejournal.com]

I demand that you post a photo of this couch. I was just at IKEA the other day pondering couches. Help me consume!!! Tell me what you bought!!!

[listersgirl]

I don't *have* the couch yet, but I will, I promise! I can tell you, it's probably the cheapest one they sell that still has arms -- the Klippan 2-seater. :)

[morag-gunn.livejournal.com]

http://www.ikea.com/PIAimages/22332_PE107213_S3.jpg

[listersgirl]

That's the one! In black.

[morag-gunn.livejournal.com]

The one we were looking at isn't pictured on the website but I swear it exists because I sat on it IN the IKEA. It's called Varnamo and is very comfortable.

Part of my revisioning of the furniture in my living room (which is currently painfully ugly) involves a two-seater couch and a matching three-seater that doubles as a sleeping place, be it a futon or a pull-out. I'm torn at the moment between buying the two-seater from IKEA or checking Craigslist obsessively for just the right futon/pullout.

My life is very hard.

[listersgirl]

I really wanted a 3-seater that would become a sleeping place, but my apartment is just too small - I would have had to get rid of all the bookcases! And possibly the table, too.

[sanity-clause.livejournal.com]

I'm doing a little couch-dance in my chair here. couch couch couch. I think my butt knows that one day, it is going to *sit* on that couch, and it is excited about new prospects.

Good for you! couch couch couch.

[listersgirl]

Soon, I promise! There will be inaugural couchsitting, and admiring of the shelves of games. I won't make you watch my sad tv, though. :D

[yagowe.livejournal.com]

And I bought a new shower curtain. But that's not particularly exciting.

It is if you use it to wrap up dead bodies for transport.

And, yay couch!

[listersgirl]

True. And it's from Ikea, so it's not like anyone could trace it back to me, out of all the thousands of other people who own this same shower curtain.

[morag-gunn.livejournal.com]

Hey I know where you could store the dead bodies!!!

[twoweevils.livejournal.com]

Not only will Ikea deliver, but they'll even bring their allen key and put your stuff together, if you pay them to.

It makes me happy to learn that I'm not the only grown woman who needs a shelf for her board games.

M.

[listersgirl]

I have two very large boxes worth of board games - they used to be on the top shelf in the closet but they got to the point where I couldn't actually get any out without causing the whole ecosystem to collapse, so I think a dedicated bookcase will definitely be a good thing.

[sh1mm3r.livejournal.com]

Mine are all precariously on a top shelf in a closet, only not straight up and down. Somehow they end up leaning, inevitably on top of the Taboo game, and if the sharp point of one box edge goes to the right place, the Taboo buzzer starts buzzing spontaneously. This can be very scary when one is home alone.

[listersgirl]

Bwa! That would be freaky.

[vestra.livejournal.com]

COUCH!!!

Hooray for couches, and for board game shelves!!

[listersgirl]

It had almost reached the point where I regretted not taking our old couch, so you KNOW I was desperate. :)

[starfishchick]

Hooray for the couch!!

[listersgirl]

I'm sorry, though, that all your hard work in organizing my books has disappeared!

[starfishchick]

Oh, bah. Not bothered in the least!

[glitterboy1.livejournal.com]

Yay furniture! I hope it turns up as promised.

[listersgirl]

I hope so too - that corner of the apartment looks so empty now!