Screaming Bean - Everyone loves a Bean!

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name: Beanie
age: 35
email: bbbeans@yahoo.com

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Book: New York by Edward Rutherfurd

Music: 1999 by Prince

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Screaming Bean

Monday, March 31, 2008

The kitchen is no more. As of Saturday afternoon we have no working sink, the microwave and stove are disconnected, and we have about 2 feet of workable space. There are holes in the walls, dust everywhere, and the silverware drawer is living in our bedroom. We still took time out of our hectic lives to go to IKEA for the second time to pick up missing pieces, swap the pieces that were injured in some way, and eat more meatballs. We should be all set now. And, bonus in the AS-IS department, we were able to pick up the wood necessary to fix our pantry closet to make it look like our cabinets, all for a whopping $5. We felt quite proud. Still, it wasn't fun to come home last night from the trip and realize the house is still a war zone and we did nothing yesterday. But, today is a new day...and even though we're currently at work, we'll work tonight and hopefully get some wiring and sheetrock up. It'll get done...someday.

Labels: ikea, kitchen

handed down by Beanie at 9:01 AM || |

Friday, March 28, 2008

The construction is going along swimmingly. Every night we come home and put together a couple more cabinets. In fact, we're down to one last cabinet to build. The goal is to make sure we have all our parts accounted for by Sunday, since we're returning to IKEA to swap bad pieces, get missing parts, and return the stuff we didn't need. Cool thing we learned while doing this is that you can share parts among cabinets, so we ended up with stuff to return after all. In the meantime, giving some thought to what we would do with our old cabinets, we put them up on Craigslist. Oh my goodness! I had no idea our local Craigslist was such a powerful thing. Within 10 minutes of posting the cabinets must go for free (and mind you they're old and grubby), we had no less than 4 requests. That has since grown to about 30 responses. People are desperate for these cabinets. Of course, not all of them are available yet, since they're still attached to the wall and holding our plates and food. As far as our attitude toward each other, we're in good shape...though walking around the house is troublesome. Of course when we start tearing about the kitchen in earnest we may come to blows, but we'll cross that bridge when we come to it. Just kidding honey!

Labels: craigslist, ikea, kitchen

handed down by Beanie at 10:11 AM || |

Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Like many people across the nation, we're holding on to our house for a while and waiting for the housing cycle to play itself out. We're also trying to improve what we've got so when the time is right, we'll have a great house to show. To that end, we've recently redone the bathroom, and now are working on the kitchen. Being bold pioneering sorts, we're doing it ourselves. And to do our cabinets, we picked IKEA. I love IKEA. I love IKEA even after spending 10 hours there on Saturday. Why 10 hours? Why not 10 hours? It took some time to place the order, we had lunch, more shopping, picked up the order and had to check to make sure our order was complete, and most importantly, packing the truck to take it home. And it all made it home. No doors on the highway, no hinges bouncing away on the medians, just a full full full truck. And now it's stacked in our family room. All flatpacked, all just waiting to be assembled. In the meantime, I'll be venetian plastering the kitchen walls. It's oddly relaxing compared to my job. Artistic too. It'll be good. It'll be fine. Just don't ask to eat over at my house at the moment. The kitchen is a bit of a wreck.

Labels: ikea, kitchen

handed down by Beanie at 12:37 PM || |