Weekend Update

[c9]

• Friday: Drove to IKEA, almost spent $450 on entertainment centre. One piece out of stock, so we went home with new scissors instead.
  
• Saturday: A whirlwind of a day. We cleaned, rearranged, hit the market for some food, and then vorpal arrived. We shopped in uptown Waterloo, received free stuff (Free Comic Book Day, also free Umbra fish playing cards from the fancy stuff store (you've seen them, they never sell)), went bowling, watched award-winning (and only mariginally entertaining) animated short films, ate yummy Italian food from Saluté, drank wine at Jane Bond, went home, slept.
  
• Sunday: Escorted vorpal to VIA station. Rented car. Phoned various IKEAs (there are four one hour from us) to ensure that the missing part was in stock. Went to North York location but discovered that a different piece was out of stock. Bought the rest anyway. Also bought a new kitchen. (!!!!!11eleven!!11!) Spent entire evening assembling BILLY bookcases and BENNO TV Bench. Wheee!

Comments

Re: kitchen

[c9.livejournal.com]

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.

Re: kitchen

[petele.livejournal.com]

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

Re: kitchen

[c9.livejournal.com]

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.

Re: kitchen

[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.

Re: kitchen

[c9.livejournal.com]

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. :)

Re: kitchen

[cap-hill-latte.livejournal.com]

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

Re: kitchen

[c9.livejournal.com]

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

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