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Soon! We don't have everything assembled in the living room yet (hopefully tonight). The kitchen won't be delivered until late June (some parts out of stock), and then we're installing ourselves so it won't be done for at least a couple weeks after that!

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How does one buy a kitchen?

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Apparently, my credit card has powers that none of us can hope to understand.

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:) Does you credit card have the power to pay my credit card off?

Or to pay the IRS for me?

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No, it only deals with NGO's.

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I'm an NGO though ;)

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NGO's that beautify my kitchen? I know you could do that too, but it's a full-time job.

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Easy: http://www.ikea.com -- download the kitchen planning tool. Drag and drop IKEA cabinets into your current kitchen shape. Print out shopping list.

Actually, they have a kitchen planning centre with real live people to help out, suggest improvements to your plan (or create the plan for you), ensure you think up all contingencies, etc. You pick the cupboard sizes, design (drawers, doors, pullouts), door style, colour, and handle style. Then you decide on a delivery week, pay for it all (ack!), and wait.

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do they install it, or do you install it? That'd be the part that would scare me!

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Installation estimate for our kitchen components: $983 CDN. Which isn't as scary when you put it beside the much larger number in the Grand Total field. :)

But a friend of ours builds cabinets and counters and such, so we're thinking we'll hire him on to be the construction foreman. That way at least we have a professional in charge, even is his crew (us) is useless.

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cap-hill-latte.livejournal.com

I'll do it for the cost of a plane ticket from SEA to YYZ and a place to sleep. I'm getting to be a professional IKEA-Putter-Togetherer. I'm thinking about doing it full-time once I finally give up on the software schtick.

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I can put together IKEA items easy. The trick here is we have over a dozen discrete items, and all fit together like a super-transformer-robot after, and must be properly mounted to the wall, then a new non-IKEA counter must be added, a hole cut, and a new non-IKEA sink installed. :)

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cap-hill-latte.livejournal.com

Sounds reasonable. I'm getting very handy with the powertools. When can I expect my eticket?

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As soon as a ticket from Seattle to Kitchener costs less than $983.

(or more seriously, if it costs less than $100. :-)

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evad-cgy.livejournal.com

Next time we're together, please remind me NOT to go to IKEA with you two!?!

David :P

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We've only spent $9,000 there since September. Shoosh!

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evad-cgy.livejournal.com

mmm... I think I'll have some sushi for lunch.

Thanks for the idea!

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Damn you and your accessible sushi!

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No way! We need you there to help distribute the spending around a bit!

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evad-cgy.livejournal.com

Just queried Quicken... we've only spent $344.49 at IKEA since we moved in!?!

I would have thought more, however every time we go there we seem to say "Do we really need this - now?" and end up walking out with $4 of candles or bamboo.

However, you don't want to know how much we've spent at Urban Barn, Home Outfitters, Nordesign, etc...

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amnewsboy.livejournal.com

Ikea. (drools)

I must go next time I'm in Chicago.

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primary-suspect.livejournal.com

I hope you guys have stock in Ikea. I think our house is slowly diminishing in Ikeaness over time. There were a bunch of student + just graduated purchases but nothing really since then...

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