{"id":4927,"date":"2009-07-08T20:52:17","date_gmt":"2009-07-09T03:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/?p=4927"},"modified":"2009-07-08T20:53:49","modified_gmt":"2009-07-09T03:53:49","slug":"ikea-hits-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/2009\/07\/08\/ikea-hits-home\/","title":{"rendered":"IKEA hits home."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, my Dad flew back from PA to spend a few days around the Fourth holiday in Mobile and see Will and Kate.  Paul and I took the opportunity to outfit the office&#8230; which involved a 350 mile trip to IKEA Houston.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the car while we were packing it up and watching the back end of the car go lower and lower and lower&#8230; this photo is NOT the finished packing.  A mattress, another big box, and a ton of other little boxes (not to mention us, our computers, and overnight bag) also fit in.  We had to sit one in front and one in back for the drive to fit it all.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4926\" title=\"ikea\" src=\"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/ikea.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/ikea.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/ikea-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Paul rocked the installation.  Here is some video of the cluttered mess while we were in the process of getting everything in and up.<\/p>\n<p><center><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/tdRzRNLCbNM&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/tdRzRNLCbNM&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n<p>He made some custom adjustments with cords and attaching computer equipment to the back of the rolling shelves to keep it off the desks (not shown) but it&#8217;s helped to put away much of the mess.  Our chairs (Swoopers!) arrive tomorrow &#8212; FINALLY.<\/p>\n<p>This is my desk.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Please don&#8217;t think this is in anyway a DONE or AFTER or COMPLETE sort of thing.\u00c2\u00a0 Just one more step&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4928\" title=\"ikea-1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/ikea-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/ikea-1.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/ikea-1-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>We used the BILLY bookcases, with height extension.\u00c2\u00a0 Mounted to the wall, they are quite stable, but these aren&#8217;t the sort of shelves that you can take with you, so to speak.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4929\" title=\"ikea-2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/ikea-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/ikea-2.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/ikea-2-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>We actually wanted the glass doors, but there weren&#8217;t any left, so we went with the solid white.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4930\" title=\"ikea-3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/ikea-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"427\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/ikea-3.jpg 427w, http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/ikea-3-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 427px) 100vw, 427px\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Here is Paul&#8217;s desk.\u00c2\u00a0 Also, a painting of Will&#8217;s is framed behind his chair.\u00c2\u00a0 We brought back several frames for kid&#8217;s artwork to go on the walls.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4931\" title=\"ikea-4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/ikea-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/ikea-4.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/ikea-4-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Our favorite item?\u00c2\u00a0 The ALEX shelves in between the desks.\u00c2\u00a0 Actually, we wanted matching ALEX drawer units (smaller ones) to go under one side of each of our desks.\u00c2\u00a0 But they were out!\u00c2\u00a0 So we settled with the big one.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4932\" title=\"ikea-5\" src=\"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/ikea-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/ikea-5.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/ikea-5-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re still figuring out the organization of things, but it is a much, much improved work space for both of us!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, my Dad flew back from PA to spend a few days around the Fourth holiday in Mobile and see Will and Kate. Paul and I took the opportunity to outfit the office&#8230; which involved a 350 mile trip to IKEA Houston. Here is the car while we were packing it up and watching [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[51,119],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4927"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4927"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4934,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4927\/revisions\/4934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}