New look? Plans post-trip-to-Ikea.

Well, the nausea has not eased, or let up. What a day! However I DID get a haircut, which was most cheering. 

At least I didn't toss my cookies as the ladies on the board say ... (however some tossing of said cookies did sadly take place, although minute and discreet in amount, as I left Ikea last night). 

Oh yes, on Tuesday night after seeing that useless Doctor Middleton, we went to Ikea for inspiration and a look-see. Well, we found everything we wanted for the flat ... shame it costs about £1300 ..! We have a compromise option, which would cost considerably less. There is always the option of staying much as we are now, and really making do. We'd rather be happy and together and not stressed and over-burdened by money pressures than in a flat that looks perfect but has cost us more than we can happily spend. The baby won't care, honestly, and we like our flat now too (we'd love it even more with the furniture we like ... but that is neither here nor there, whatever the surroundings, we'd never love a wardrobe more than eachother or the offspring, surely?)

So that's that. 

We could end up with not a lot to buy really ... we have enough to do the flooring in the bedroom with the underfloor heating, and to do the carpeting in the study and the hallway, with a new storage heater in the study. Those are the essentials really. If we can't do any more, we won't. Put in an extra set of shelves maybe, if we really can't do more. 

If we DO manage to get the money together though, the rooms will be just as we want them. Whatever happens the futon is going into the study. If we can do it, we'd also downsize the table in there to a small desk, add a big, nice filing cabinet and put in a big floor-to-ceiling macho shelving unit for all the ringbinders, nothing else in the room so it's ready for Iain to sleep in if he can't sleep with us, or for guests to sleep in when people come over, like to help or keep me company. 

The lounge would change a lot, first of all the futon would go, then the dining table would go as the table in the study would be our dining table (as it used to be). This would be in the top right hand corner as we look at the lounge from the kitchen doorway. The big sofa would stay where it is, as would the TV - but if we have the money we'd get a big sturdy attractive unit to put the media stuff in with spaces for toy baskets on the bottom row, space for the kid's big toys etc. The wall that has shelves now would have different shelves all along it (we're not keen on the current shelves) with all our books. The small sofa would be around somewhere ... 

The bedroom would be different too. The current shambolic wardrobe would be closed off. 

The bed would move under the window, but pushed against the short wall, Iain would sleep by the wall, then me, then the baby, the baby and myslef on the humanity family bed. How we arrange the 2 chests of drawers we already have and the wardrobes we need to buy depend on the pricey or cheap option - which will we choose? The expensive option has a wardrobe and a dressing table cabinet for me against the wall which is currently not a wall, but a wardrobe entrance. A further matching wardrobe would follow on the long wall at right angles to this wall. Then a bit further along would be the chests of drawers, with the changing mat atop one, and shelves for the baby's clothes above these. On one of the free spaces we'll have a railing for Iain to hang his clothes on - he likes putting them on a chair and I trip on the chair all the time! 

The cheap option has the chests of drawers/changing mat section + shelves on the wall that once was a wardrobe door, with, on the long wall, cheaper wardrobes on either side of a shorter unit which has a mirror above it and mirrors on the sides of the wardrobes so I can look and have 3 mirrors at once, like the expensive dresser.... 

The best bit is what happens to the old wardrobe. The hall cupboard basically leads on to this cupboard space again, as it used to and we open the hall cupboard, see the coats and progress within, like Narnia to reach the shelves and storage! Brilliant. The Narnia factor makes the inconvenience worth it! Who really wants to wade through coats .... Well Iain will do most of it anyway, who am I kidding?