So have you ever noticed that when you move into a house, you decide that all of the things you have now are not good enough?
Take my couch. First off, it smells like dog pee, because all of a sudden one day Bindi decided she would fancy a couch pee. It’s a sectional, so right now our living room contains the chaise and the one part that has an arm. The middle is downstairs in the dungeon (I mean basement). So of course I want a new couch. If we did get a new couch, I would put the entire thing downstairs in the basement, so it wouldn’t go to waste.
Which then makes me wonder, if I did get a new couch, would it go with the IKEA furniture that worked in the apartment? I truly only like the bookshelf that we have turned on it’s side that is our mail catcher, etc. Everything else honestly could go (tv stand & coffee table). But even then, the darn thing is in blonde wood, and I feel like that finish just screams first apartment. That’s one of the major problems with IKEA, their “wood” finishes. Even if you get darker wood, down the line you may not find any matching furniture because they change what their “brown” is. So we went with the blonde wood, and now this house just doesn’t seem like a blonde wood house. Our house has medium pine floors and beautiful dark cherry wooden doors. So the lighter wood kind of sticks out.
Also I would love to find an area rug that isn’t a hand-me-down from my mom’s house. It’s pretty and all but I would like something more modern.
Don’t even get me started on the bedroom. We have some more IKEA dressers in a reddish light brown which we bought from a friend when she moved to Germany. One of them got a large chip on it during the move. So now there is MDF filling showing on one side. But I do like them. I actually like my metal bed and my white night stands (kind of like those but with a drawer at the top). I just feel like it’s time for dressers that are of better quality and could go with the room better.
I love my new desk for my office. That room also holds another IKEA dresser and a bookshelf. But again the wood finishes don’t match my new, darker desk. I would also love a new computer to put on my new desk 
. And new flat screen TV’s to make everything sleeker.
So…in total I need like $20k. Any offers? We did get a powerball ticket today. Here’s hoping we win.
