Since the kids moved out (a while back) we have had, in effect, two ‘spare’ bedrooms.
During the times of Covid, I was, for a while, managing to work from home so adapted one of the rooms to an office. My expanding collection of LEGO also required homing so, to start with, I used an old Ikea Kallax unit. Over the years the Kallax has grown so the office is more of a LEGO room than much else.
The other room, Sue claimed as her Craft Room, doubling as Teddy Bear storage / display. Furniture-wise it comprised a few items that were no longer required elsewhere.
The main workspace is the old kitchen table, positioned under the window to give a healthy dose of natural light.
I was up there with Sue about a week ago when she asked if the small shelving units on the one wall could be ‘upgraded’ to something a bit bigger which could be used for storage. After a bit of measuring I proposed some Kallax units with a tabletop across the top. Sue was well impressed and gave the project the green light.
Back in the annuls of time when the children were young, I decorated this room by spraying the walls to look like the night sky with a city silhouette along the bottom and stars above.
So the first job on the Craft Room facelift was to cover the old paint job. Luckily, a year or so past, Sue bought four rolls of wallpaper heavily discounted (from £12 to £1.20 per roll) so that was used to cover the end wall. The adjoining walls (or at least the first metre of each) was painted white.
I took the easy was out and ordered the Ikea bits online and they were delivered Monday. I didn’t take long to put the construct the units and put everything together.
A nice feature of the Kallax units is the variety of inserts but Sue wasn’t sure which to utilise and decided to wait until the units were up before deciding. To help, and to actually buy the items, an in-person trip up the M6 was required.
A daughter who never wants anything from Ikea but always comes away with something (that’s how it works) tagged along. We were also childminding for Charlie over the weekend.
Being a Saturday, the store was busy but not too bad as we had a mooch around.
Luckily there were plenty of places to rest on the way around although, in reality, Charlie just likes to try everything out.
Part way around, we stopped for lunch at the restaurant for some decent, reasonably priced nosh.
With full bellies we continued around having to swap our big yellow bag for a trolley as Sue chose her boxes.
By the time we had reached the checkout the trolley was bulging because, as expected, Kassie found a few bits as did Sue in addition to what we’d actually come for.
Back home, the boxes were built (about twenty seconds each), filled and inserted.
There is still a bit of shuffling to do but with a lot of stuff packed away, we can move on to redecorating the rest of the room.
As an aside, I did see this, suggestive to a certain mindset, in the store …
