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January 22, 2006

New furniture

Amanda and I made a purchase over the weekend that I'm very proud of. Before I tell you what it is, I feel as if I should explain our bedroom furniture situation up to this point in our relationship together.

When Amanda and I first got together, we took over her existing full size bed (if you could call it that) as "our bed". I only had a twin size, which just didn't fit us very well. Her bed was OK at first, but after a period of time it began to cave in in the center. I often found myself waking up in the dead center of the bed with Amanda on top of me.

We aquired a king size bed in early 2000, but it didn't have a great box spring with it. As a matter of fact, we gave up on the existing box spring and just slept with the bed on the floor for a long time. In 2002 we decided that we were tired of being on the floor so we bought a box spring to go with the mattress. We've had this arrangement up till now.

As far as other furniture is concerned, we have never had any "real" bedroom hardware with the exception of the bed. All of our clothing has been placed in a closet. In 2001 or 2002, we had a need for more storage space, but were low on money, so we purchased some plastic drawers and used them to store our socks and underwear. Needless to say, we've had this furniture up until now as well.

Until this weekend, we've never actually had anything that you could call "quality bedroom furniture".

I came across a killer deal at a consignment shop on Friday that I just couldn't pass up. It was a chest of drawers and a sub-chest that matched. They were asking for about $300 bucks for the set, but I managed to aquire them for $150.00.

That's both units ... and with delivery.

In addition, our king size bed has gotten to a point to where it's worn out as well. I also managed to land a deal where I got a brand new king size pillow-top mattress. So, hopefully within a week, we'll also have a new mattress for our existing bed frame and box spring in addition to our new chest of drawers.

And now, for some pictures:

The Chest of Drawers it all its glory.

The sub chest ... or whatever you'd call it.

By the way, both pieces are the exact same color. It's just that the room where the chest of drawers had its picture taken is very light, so it came out very dark. I had to lighten the picture so that people could see the features. It's actual color is like the sub chest, a nice deep dark reddish color. I'm not sure what the stain is, but it's really nice. On top is black marble with some fine white/light gray streaks. I'm really digging the way it all looks in the bedroom.

Anyhow, as you can see, they're both really nice pieces of furniture. The color of the furniture doesn't match our existing color scheme however, so we're going to have to re-do alot of things ... including our existing headboard that is currently a kinda green color (it looked good originally). That means we may be doing some stripping here in the near future.

Maybe I should give Pete a call ...

~out...

Posted by ed at 10:09 PM | Comments (0)