home improvement

Since we've dropped the idea of renting a bigger place (coz rentals have gone up sooo much), we wanted to make our current apartment feel more like a 'HOME'...and preferably with more storage space. We went to Ikea on Sat (with nothing really in mind) and ended up with a customised PAX wardrobe system. We didnt know what/how we should fit the interiors (and it was quite a headache to give it some thought), so we merely pointed to 1 of the sample wardrobe shown at the corner. LOL! The Ikea guy also didnt tell us that the wardrobes came in different heights. We got 3 combinations of wardrobes in 1m + 0.5m + 0.5m (totally 2m long) and height of 2.3m. Also got a huge bookcase to replace the existing one in the study. We went home happily.

BUT when it was delivered the next day, the wardrobe was 2CM TALLER coz there was a beam on the wall in our bedroom!!! One of the 0.5m wardrobe has already been fxed up, and we didnt wanna go through the trouble of exchanging the other 2. In the end, we placed the 0.5m + 1m wardrobe in the study...and moved the bookcase to the living room. The remaining 0.5m wardrobe fitted rather nicely in the hall to solve our bugging problem of the Elvis-Imelda Marcos shoe fantasy. Heehee... ;p (Our old shoe rack has already been stacked to 1.8m)


So now our study looks like a whole room of wardrobes! The sofabed in the study might soon have to go too, to make room for Joel's bed.

The funniest thing about this Ikea trip is the big group of touters in Ikea's pickup area. They offer next-day delivery at almost the same price - 4% installation and ¥80 delivery (Ikea charges 4% & ¥60 for 3-days delivery). We chose to do it "illegally". Well, this is after all f***ing china!