My bed is from IKEA, and it's done me very well. So was my last one, come to think.
Monty: Whaddya mean she ain't my wife? Mal: She ain't your wife... cause she's married to me.
'Trash'
Natter 43: I Love My Dead Gay Whale Crosspost.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
brenda m - Apr 07, 2006 7:02:51 am PDT #9434 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
tommyrot - Apr 07, 2006 7:04:00 am PDT #9435 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I have some very sturdy metal Ikea shelves that I like. I could probably stack gold bars on it without it collapsing.
Scrappy - Apr 07, 2006 7:05:31 am PDT #9436 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Our office (except for anthrocart desks for the computers) is all IKEA stuff and it works really well. Certain of their items are really fabulous and styling althoug I agree that and others are too laminate-y.
§ ita § - Apr 07, 2006 7:05:35 am PDT #9437 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
There's that store that I can never remember the name of, because I get stuck on Dutch Elm and West Nile (so now I have to see what two-word combination of those for is the actual name...West Elm...there we go) which opened a branch not too far from my house. I'm scared to go in there, because I fear the impulse purchase.
Jessica - Apr 07, 2006 7:07:41 am PDT #9438 of 10001
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
I didn't know West Elm had stores! I thought they were web/catalog only. I love their stuff.
[eta: Uh-oh -- according to their website, they've got 2 in NYC, and both are within easy subway/walking distance from me. Crap.]
bon bon - Apr 07, 2006 7:08:52 am PDT #9439 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
West Elm is *very* close to my apartment, but has been still too expensive for the impulse buy.
P.M. Marc - Apr 07, 2006 7:12:02 am PDT #9440 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I guess it's a bad idea to get a bed there, hmm?
Our bed and mattress are both from IKEA.
I really like the mattress (it's an all-foam one), and the bed's okay. Just avoid the pressboard ones.
Things IKEA does well: mattresses; kitchen cabinets; rugs; glassware; the Poang chair; those weird square cheap coffee tables (mine's been very abused, and has held up nicely).
Their dressers always seemed flimsy to me, which is why when we finally got dressers this year (they just came yesterday!), we went to one of those all wood places instead.
Jesse - Apr 07, 2006 7:12:53 am PDT #9441 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I like West Elm stuff a lot, but I can't help feeling it's too expensive for what it is. I.e., way more expensive than IKEA for stuff that looks marginally better than IKEA.
Jesse - Apr 07, 2006 7:13:48 am PDT #9442 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Oh, Plei, the mattresses are good? That's an enormous relief to me, as what the boy is going to IKEA for is a new mattress.
Liese S. - Apr 07, 2006 7:14:23 am PDT #9443 of 10001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Why do we make stuff that is crappy now? Why can't we make stuff that is good? It sucks to make stuff that is crappy.
Of my "nice" furniture, I have two lovely oak shelves that my dad & I made when I was a teenager that are gorgeous and sturdy and withstand everything including teenager abuse and desert levels of low humidity, and a set of cherry coffee and end tables that my parents had made by some Amish dude that are also gorgeous and sturdy and finished on the top and bottom.
All the rest of my furniture is either crap or was bought at the thrift store. Although some of the thrift store stuff is quite nice. And that reminds me that I need some dining room chairs. I wonder if the thrift store has any. I wonder what hours they're open tonight, because I'm going to have some time to kill before and after the SO's jazz band concert tonight.