Life with the Allens

Thursday, 17 January 2008

Since moving to our new home our 3rd bedroom has been used as little more than a junk room with all of the boxes that we haven't yet unpacked or sorted through being piled in along with the larger of the children's toys and anything else that I can't find a home for. We had great ideas of turning it into an office come playroom come guest room (ambitious I know, it's only a small double), but so far this plan has yet to materialise - that is until Nick decided he was gonna sort it out. And when Nick puts his mind to doing something, he finds a way and he somehow does it. Case in point would be our new bed (which I lurrve soooo much that any excuse for a nap and I'm in my PJ's!). we bought it from Ikea and it is a Euro Kingsize bed. That is, it is larger than a UK Kingsize. Anyway, we went to Birmingham for the New Year and as we arrived we left the kids and were off again to Coventry to the new IKEA there. we duly bought mattress and bedframe etc...and I was worried that it was never going to fit into our car. Nick wasn't fazed however and somehow or another he got it in - and all without having to leave the boot open. Admittedly we had to move our seats so far forward that my chest was up against the dashboard - and God knows how uncomfortable Nick was - but we did it all the same! That wasn't the end of the bed challenge either. Nick had to go home the next day so that he could go to work New Year's eve and he took the bed. By the time he called to say he was home safe he'd already put it together - he both drove to witney and assembled this mammoth of a bed in just over two hours. Not bad, not bad at all.

Did I mention just how much I love my bed?...

Yesterday he set about putting up the new desk that we bought at the weekend (another IKEA find - I just love IKEA!) and although it remained in it's box in the hallway, and then in the junk room for a few days, he once again set about assembling another flatpack and thus started the ball rolling.