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Ikea With Ryan

A few weeks ago, Ryan and I decided to go to Ikea to take a look at a new(ish) entertainment center I saw in the catalog. Before we left, I told Ryan that I thought I might document the trip on the blog because I haven’t written in so long (that is the closest you’ll get to an apology today). He made this face and told me that I was going to regret saying that.

I rolled my eyes, nervously laughed and we got in the car. (Yes, his shirt says “Less Talking More Tacos.”)

After we stopped at Starbucks for the necessary caffeine injection, we walked into Ikea only to be greeted with a sign that reminded us of something we had long forgotten:

Very cheap breakfast. FREE breakfast if you spend $100. That led to:

And then we were off to shop. Since I was specifically looking for one of the newer entertainment centers, I told Ryan that I wanted to take my time and look through the entire showroom so I could see it in action.

Are you starting to understand the level of ham I live with?! I was so nervous he was going to climb into one of the beds and pretend to be just waking up. I didn’t dare say it loud because I was sure he’d be all “GREAT IDEA!” I just nervously smiled (again) and pretended he was my special needs brother.

We finally found the Stockholm TV unit I wanted to check out. Of course, it was WAAAAYYYY too small, so we took a look at the sideboard of the same collection to see if we could hack it to fit our needs.

I was seriously wondering what people were thinking when we removed all the doors and were talking about building extra shelves and making the doors slide instead of open on hinges. A lady walked by and said “oh dear” under her breath. Anyway, at the end of the day, we decided it wasn’t for us and that we are going to have to put some big boy pants and actually buy some “real” furniture. We’re in talks with one of my friends who is a woodworker to see if he can build us a custom cabinet.

But that didn’t stop us from buying blackout curtains for the living room so that our guests wouldn’t have to be subject to the blaring floodlight outside the window!

And Ryan got elevenses, of course. I got the $1 frozen yogurt (not pictured).

I’ll keep you posted on the cabinet we want to have built. Of course, I want one that costs thousands, but have the budget of (insert insanely small amount here). Oh, life. You’re one big kick in the crotch…

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