The Living Room Redesign Continues

Another day another new pile of furniture in the living room.

Last night Jen, in her incredibleness, surprised me by putting together the last of the new DVD shelves and bringing all the cables over to the new TV stand. She's incredible.

That's when the nastiness started. She tried to slide the TV stand a few inches to the right and BAM! two pieces came undone. I went over IKEA's somewhat cryptic instructions and checked the components in question pretty thoroughly and we did not seem to do anything wrong. We just happened to have two pieces of one of the front shelves (which also make up part of the support for the TV stand itself) come undone a little.

The question stood: Do we put it back together or do we replace it. After some soul searching and a little arguing and some nerves and some general pissed-off-at-the-TV-stand-ness we decided to fix it. It went back together pretty easily and is holding fine. I even put most of my excessive weight on it and it didn't wiggle or wobble or anything. We put it into place and ran all the necessary cables through it and decided to make a new house rule: If the TV stand needs to be moved, two people have to move it together and it must be lifted off the ground, not dragged. Of course 10 minutes later we discovered the Playstation 3 didn't fit on the shelf and we needed to rearrange some of the cables... which meant moving the damn thing again. It went fine. No problems. No wiggles or wobbles. The TV is currently sitting on it and all seems to be well.

I'm gonna keep an eye on it though.

Next we put everything into the place it's going to stay until we move out of chez-duplex and bolted it all to the walls. Then we moved our massive DVD collection to the new shelves. I was a bad worker and snuck a blu-ray onto the newly moved TV. Rush - Snakes and Arrows Live. What can I say, I like music while I redecorate.

About that time Jen had to go to the back room to get ready for work. She was on call last night starting at 10:30. Usually her on calls last an hour or so. Last night was more like three. It gave me time to move the books to the new book case and bring the old book case, the old TV stand, and one end table that is no longer of any use out to the street in the hopes that some one will take them. That some one may be the weekly trash pick up, but if it's a random passerby then that's cool with us too.

We still have one more IKEA item to put together. It's a big side board that will go in place of the old book case and the now useless end table. We both agree that putting it together is going to redefine the term "bitch" but it will get done tonight. Then we will clean up the now empty area where the television used to live in preparation for two additional pieces of furniture that will be delivered tomorrow.

Once those items are in place we will have a completely redesigned living room and I will post some pictures. Once that is done we will start working on the kids' rooms. After that it will be the office. Then our bedroom. Then... we'll see.

We're going to have a whole new house.