When I moved from San Francisco to Chicago in 2000, I had nothing to furnish an apartment. Being a relatively poor, single 25 year old, I went to Ikea and bought EVERYTHING to furnish an entire apartment.
When Jon and I moved in together, my Ikea bed was supposed to be our guest room bed. Jon's queen bed wouldn't fit up the stairs of the coachhouse so the Ikea bed became our bed.
We moved the bed to our Raleigh apartment as a guest room bed, fully intending to get rid of it when we bought a house. We bought our house and found out we were having TWO babies, so we moved the Ikea bed into our first house with a plan to replace it.
Then we found out how expensive it is to have two babies at once. 4.5 years later, it remained our guest room bed. We said when we move, it is NOT moving with us.
Then we moved to the new house, our existing house, which is 5 bedrooms. When we moved, we had day care payments and two mortgages and 5 bedrooms to furnish, so that bed remained Nate's bed.
Our big anniversary present to ourselves this year was to say good-bye to that Ikea bed. I can tell you definitively Ikea beds are not designed to be moved multiple times nor are they designed to last as long as this one did. Nate's new bedroom furniture arrived this weekend. Do you think he likes it?
5 comments:
It's funny. When you want IKEA furniture to last, it doesn't. When you want it do die, it doesn't. You can't win.
I hope Nate likes his new bed. If he doesn't, you can send it (including millennium falcon quilt) up to me. I would love it!
Love the Star Wars bedding and Yoda! Michael would be in heaven if he had that.
The new bed looks great, but my first thought when seeing that photo was "MUST HAVE THAT BEDDING."
Super cute! I would say he definitely loves it!
I have abandoned Ikea furniture in former apartments and houses...who knew that particle board could survive so many moves?
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