Today, Karen and I finally got rid of our china cabinet. Hooray! Too bad I suck at donating furniture.
Luckily for me, I had someone already lined up to take the piece of furniture. I had contacted someone (Danielle) who I had met via the FreeCycle website.
Back in February of last year, Danielle and her husband (Luke) were gracious enough to take our dining room table from us when we had placed the table up on FreeCycle. At the time, Karen and I also wanted to get rid of the matching china cabinet because it just was not our style. Unfortunately, we could not get rid of the cabinet because we needed to store our seldom used dinnerware. (For anyone getting married, do not believe the hype that you need all this dinnerware. It's a sham.)
Needless to say, we inquired back then if Danielle and Luke would be interested in taking the china cabinet since it matched the dinner table. They were definitely interested at the time. Fast forward a year and a half later in which we finally got a new china cabinet... and luckily for us, Danielle and Luke were still interested in the old china cabinet.
Anyway, it was definitely good to see the old cabinet go. The old china cabinet just did not fit correctly in our dining room. And, I'm ecstatic that it went to someone who really wanted it. (For anyone curious, Danielle and Luke refinish furniture. I think it was just some hobby that Danielle started.)
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Friday, December 23, 2011
I Suck At Circle Furniture
Today, my present to Karen (and her present to me) arrived. As scintillating a gift as it may be, Karen and I got ourselves furniture this year for Christmas. We had ordered the furniture from Circle Furniture located in Pembroke.
Now, I suck at Circle Furniture. We have never ordered furniture from there before. But I must say, it was a great experience. Of course, the free candy in the store (like Jolly Ranchers) may have swayed my decision. Although truthfully, Circle Furniture was the only place to actually have furniture that would fit the spot we were looking to add furniture to.
Karen was looking to add a sectional to our first floor living room with hopes of opening the area up in terms of seating, as well as giving our twenty one month old daughter (Briana) more room to play in. Prior to the sectional, the room only had two seats and a table. While that may be okay for just Karen and I, it wasn't going to work well when we had more than the two of us in the room. Hence, the sectional.
I actually thought it was a good idea, in part because adding the new sectional also meant that later on I could replace our television in the living room with a new flat panel television. Karen said the new television is all me. Woo hoo! I can't wait to make that purchase.
Anyway, the sectional arrived today and it looks great. Briana even seemed to enjoy it even though she may have gotten a concussion because of it. Sadly, Briana accidentally fell on her head while standing on the sectional (after repeated attempts by Karen to tell her sit instead of stand).
In what can best be described as a Charlie Brown flip, Briana seemed to spin 360 degrees in the air and land on her head. I actually only caught the dramatic part of the Charlie Brown spin (ie. the head meeting the floor part) because I was in the other room. Briana was with Karen at the time. I walked into the room... and plop. It was devastatingly sad. Luckily for us, Briana's melon is pliable. After a lot of tears, she was back to her regular self in no time and jumping back on the sectional.
Regardless, I think the furniture looks great. And I definitely can't wait to purchase that new television now.
Now, I suck at Circle Furniture. We have never ordered furniture from there before. But I must say, it was a great experience. Of course, the free candy in the store (like Jolly Ranchers) may have swayed my decision. Although truthfully, Circle Furniture was the only place to actually have furniture that would fit the spot we were looking to add furniture to.
Karen was looking to add a sectional to our first floor living room with hopes of opening the area up in terms of seating, as well as giving our twenty one month old daughter (Briana) more room to play in. Prior to the sectional, the room only had two seats and a table. While that may be okay for just Karen and I, it wasn't going to work well when we had more than the two of us in the room. Hence, the sectional.
I actually thought it was a good idea, in part because adding the new sectional also meant that later on I could replace our television in the living room with a new flat panel television. Karen said the new television is all me. Woo hoo! I can't wait to make that purchase.
Anyway, the sectional arrived today and it looks great. Briana even seemed to enjoy it even though she may have gotten a concussion because of it. Sadly, Briana accidentally fell on her head while standing on the sectional (after repeated attempts by Karen to tell her sit instead of stand).
In what can best be described as a Charlie Brown flip, Briana seemed to spin 360 degrees in the air and land on her head. I actually only caught the dramatic part of the Charlie Brown spin (ie. the head meeting the floor part) because I was in the other room. Briana was with Karen at the time. I walked into the room... and plop. It was devastatingly sad. Luckily for us, Briana's melon is pliable. After a lot of tears, she was back to her regular self in no time and jumping back on the sectional.
Regardless, I think the furniture looks great. And I definitely can't wait to purchase that new television now.
Saturday, July 12, 2008
I Suck At Boston Interiors
during my conversation with my bff (kerry) last night, the topic of furniture came up after finding out she had lyme disease. kerry is moving to salem in a couple of months and consequently needed furniture to fill her new place. with the limited number of furniture stores available in massachusetts, the topic of boston interiors came up.
boston interiors is a furniture store that advertises great design at affordable prices. it just so happens that kerry has never been to boston interiors. it also just so happens that there is a boston interiors located not too far from where i live. needless to say, kerry came down for a little visit and to do some furniture shopping... and she actually bought something today... albeit it was a tape measure. (i'll get to that later.)
we started our little adventure in marshfield at the halfway cafe, which is one of kerry's favorite places to eat. we couldn't shop, after all, on an empty stomach. as usual, the food at the halfway was very delicious. (i had the $7 calzone special... cue rachael ray's "yum-o" sound.)
from there, we went to lowe's to pick up some mulch because karen and i ran out of mulch for the flower bed. it was at lowe's that kerry decided to get the tape measure. my hard sell on craftsman tools couldn't convince her to put the stanley tape measure down. (i guess it's a good thing then that i am not a spokesperson for sears.) kerry was also tempted to get a new tool kit, but decided against it.
after lowe's, we made a little pit stop at staples for my geek tendencies. i needed to get more blank cds because i only have one left... a result of my geek tendency to physically back up my tunes in the event of a computer hardware or software failure. luckily, with my new network server that i built, the chances of failure have been drastically minimized because i'm not using microsoft for storing the files. yay!
anyway, we ended up at boston interiors shortly afterwards. kerry was primarily looking for a sofa. with kerry's love of beverly hills 90210, she had to sit on the "brandon" sofa. there were a bunch of sofas that we sat on. i don't think kerry liked boston interior's style of sofas that much. i think she preferred their style of tables instead. so needless to say, there was not a sofa to her liking. oh well.
even though kerry didn't get anything (other than a tape measure), it was fun to go shopping with her before she had to go back to the tick-infested house in lexington. by the way, i saw the tick bite... it's big... and at a very weird location on her body. it's located on her pectoral muscle near her armpit. i told her it was a great way to pick up men... by showing them her tick bite.
i hope kerry equally had a good time. with the antibiotics she is on for ten days to combat lyme disease, she couldn't hang out by the pool in the sun like she had originally planned. so, i hope she had a good time furniture shopping instead.
boston interiors is a furniture store that advertises great design at affordable prices. it just so happens that kerry has never been to boston interiors. it also just so happens that there is a boston interiors located not too far from where i live. needless to say, kerry came down for a little visit and to do some furniture shopping... and she actually bought something today... albeit it was a tape measure. (i'll get to that later.)
we started our little adventure in marshfield at the halfway cafe, which is one of kerry's favorite places to eat. we couldn't shop, after all, on an empty stomach. as usual, the food at the halfway was very delicious. (i had the $7 calzone special... cue rachael ray's "yum-o" sound.)
from there, we went to lowe's to pick up some mulch because karen and i ran out of mulch for the flower bed. it was at lowe's that kerry decided to get the tape measure. my hard sell on craftsman tools couldn't convince her to put the stanley tape measure down. (i guess it's a good thing then that i am not a spokesperson for sears.) kerry was also tempted to get a new tool kit, but decided against it.
after lowe's, we made a little pit stop at staples for my geek tendencies. i needed to get more blank cds because i only have one left... a result of my geek tendency to physically back up my tunes in the event of a computer hardware or software failure. luckily, with my new network server that i built, the chances of failure have been drastically minimized because i'm not using microsoft for storing the files. yay!
anyway, we ended up at boston interiors shortly afterwards. kerry was primarily looking for a sofa. with kerry's love of beverly hills 90210, she had to sit on the "brandon" sofa. there were a bunch of sofas that we sat on. i don't think kerry liked boston interior's style of sofas that much. i think she preferred their style of tables instead. so needless to say, there was not a sofa to her liking. oh well.
even though kerry didn't get anything (other than a tape measure), it was fun to go shopping with her before she had to go back to the tick-infested house in lexington. by the way, i saw the tick bite... it's big... and at a very weird location on her body. it's located on her pectoral muscle near her armpit. i told her it was a great way to pick up men... by showing them her tick bite.
i hope kerry equally had a good time. with the antibiotics she is on for ten days to combat lyme disease, she couldn't hang out by the pool in the sun like she had originally planned. so, i hope she had a good time furniture shopping instead.
Monday, May 12, 2008
I Suck At Buying Furniture
since the new addition of the second floor to our house, karen and i have not gotten any furniture. thus, the second floor has been mainly devoid of anything for quite some time... that is... until saturday.
on saturday, karen and i finally got some new furniture for the addition. in general, we always have a hard time deciding on things like furniture. the only time we seem to agree on furniture is when the piece of furniture is ridiculously expensive. (i guess we both have expensive tastes.) anyway, the practical side in us can't justify paying for expensive furniture. thus, we generally have a hard time deciding on things like furniture. so i guess you could say... i suck at buying furniture.
anyway, a while ago we had decided to go to bernie and phyl's located in braintree. as luck would have it, we agreed on some items of furniture in the store. (karen had done some earlier browsing of the inventory online. plus, she found an online coupon to use at the store which also made her very excited.)
needless to say, we purchased the items that day. we had to wait, however, until saturday to actually pick the items up. (pictured below are the pieces of furniture sitting in the room.)
so, these new pieces of furniture are going to sit in the workout/office area. the original intent is to have these items face the television in that room. unfortunately, there is currently no television in that room. so, the chairs and table are facing a blank wall right now. sure, it may seem odd right now... but when that television is there, it'll probably make more sense.
on saturday, karen and i finally got some new furniture for the addition. in general, we always have a hard time deciding on things like furniture. the only time we seem to agree on furniture is when the piece of furniture is ridiculously expensive. (i guess we both have expensive tastes.) anyway, the practical side in us can't justify paying for expensive furniture. thus, we generally have a hard time deciding on things like furniture. so i guess you could say... i suck at buying furniture.
anyway, a while ago we had decided to go to bernie and phyl's located in braintree. as luck would have it, we agreed on some items of furniture in the store. (karen had done some earlier browsing of the inventory online. plus, she found an online coupon to use at the store which also made her very excited.)
needless to say, we purchased the items that day. we had to wait, however, until saturday to actually pick the items up. (pictured below are the pieces of furniture sitting in the room.)
so, these new pieces of furniture are going to sit in the workout/office area. the original intent is to have these items face the television in that room. unfortunately, there is currently no television in that room. so, the chairs and table are facing a blank wall right now. sure, it may seem odd right now... but when that television is there, it'll probably make more sense.
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