Showing posts with label IKEA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label IKEA. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 3, 2008

Warrior

(The weekend kind, of course.) I just took off and ran with projects this past weekend. There are still (always) things to do, but I am very proud of what all got done, in part to a 2 hour IKEA visit. I took pics, and for most of them I have a "before" and/or an "after."

1) replaced ugly painted door pull under the telephone nook with a glass pull (no pics because the glass knob on white door was hard to photograph).

2) Used AMORF window frost from IKEA to frost the top 3 panels of the bathroom window, and the top 3 panels of one of the kitchen windows. This stuff is awesome. Super easy to cut and put on the window, and comes right off if you want to remove it. I am particularly glad that the it *perfectly* matches the frost that was already on the bottom 3 panes of the bathroom window.

BATHROOM WINDOW AFTER:

KITCHEN WINDOW BEFORE:

KITCHEN WINDOW AFTER:




3) Next, I installed IKEA bookshelf lights:

BOOKSHELVES BEFORE:


BOOKSHELVES AFTER:


4) After that, I took some succulents that I bought at IKEA, and planted them in a window box (also IKEA), and put it on the toilet tank. And I have to say it looks really good. Now all I have to do is restrain my tendency to over-water, and maybe they will live despite me.

BEFORE:


AFTER:


5) I hung new white sheers in the dining room - made such a difference....

BEFORE:

AFTER:

6) Installed new curtain rod and lace curtains in the bathroom in front of the shower curtain. Just in case you forgot that this house is a bachelorette pad, the bathroom is unabashedly girly.

AFTER:


7) This week I also finally hung the towel rack in the bathroom. And I love how the Breakfast at Tiffany's poster really ties together the black/white/gray theme of it all.


8) AND while I did all of this, I watched my Netflix of the day, Enchanted, so I knocked that off the list too.

There is still a lot left to do...new shelf paper in the kitchen, hang wine rack, patch some drywall, caulk the stairs, sand and refinish a table, sand a few cabinets so that they close better, finish hanging curtains in bedroom, paint rooms, recover bench seat (again), make a couple of dog beds, sew table cloth...the list goes on and on. But at least I got a good number of things completed this weekend!

Monday, June 2, 2008

overheard at IKEA

the scene: A mother with a crying toddler on her hip, looking very closely at his face.

mother:
"Did you put something in your eye?"

toddler:
"MYYYYYYY FIIIINGERRRRRRRRRR!!"

mother:
"Well, I'm sorry you did that..."

Tuesday, April 8, 2008

yet another reason to love IKEA

IKEA to Ditch Plastic or Paper Bags Completely!


Starting October 2008, IKEA will stop offering customers plastic or paper bags at their stores, with only reusable bags available to customers. The decision came after an overwhelming positive feedback from IKEA customers, who voted over 92% to take their "bag the plastic bag" program one step further and ditch plastic bags altogether.

Nice work, IKEA...let's hope some of the other retail giants follow suit.