24 -27 April 2019
For eight years I've managed without proper furniture. We've had building-site furniture, scavenged from closed-down pubs or friends' clear-outs. Now I have nearly all my floors, I want some comfort (sofas and chairs), elegance (dining table), storage (sideboard and shelves), and I want it now! The only answer is Ikea - at least they have a reasonable environmental policy, and a good website for checking the materials used in each item. So I ordered a few rooms' worth of pieces. With a delivery schedule of 7 working days, and with Greek Easter in the middle of that, I reckoned we had a couple of weeks to wait.
Next day, they rang. Suddenly we had to find places to put lots of large cardboard boxes that still left the living room clear to work in, and the music room clear to live in. Luckily the weather is good, and non-precious items can go outside.
For eight years I've managed without proper furniture. We've had building-site furniture, scavenged from closed-down pubs or friends' clear-outs. Now I have nearly all my floors, I want some comfort (sofas and chairs), elegance (dining table), storage (sideboard and shelves), and I want it now! The only answer is Ikea - at least they have a reasonable environmental policy, and a good website for checking the materials used in each item. So I ordered a few rooms' worth of pieces. With a delivery schedule of 7 working days, and with Greek Easter in the middle of that, I reckoned we had a couple of weeks to wait.
Next day, they rang. Suddenly we had to find places to put lots of large cardboard boxes that still left the living room clear to work in, and the music room clear to live in. Luckily the weather is good, and non-precious items can go outside.
Space cleared and mats down to protect our sparkly new floor
Same in the hall, room to put things alongside the stairs, as long as we can squeeze past to bathroom.
Some time later. Boxes in the hall, some chairs in the entry, garden furniture left outside, sofa-bed ready to construct in the music room
A little later again, sofa-bed constructed. Dave tests it out. (We haven't had a sofa you could stretch out full-length on since 2011!)
Meanwhile, the wood for the living room floor also arrives, and can only go outside. So we covered it with the (now obsolete) boat bunk underlays, to protect it from warping in the heat.
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