It's not as easy as picking out any shelves and brackets and just installing them- because of the electronic equipment they are going to support. With the cables, those electronics are about 14" deep, while most shelves are 8-12" deep. The idea is to install wall-mounted shelves next to the window, and have a shelf on the wall adjacent to it (above the couch's new location) so support the projector. After a series of sketches and an afternoon spent searching for options online, I came up with a solution! I will be searching all week for the other unpurchased matierals/furniture, so that I can have a super productive weekend next weekend. That's why I decided to go by the apartment and do a bit of work in the meantime. I started cleaning: removing the blue tape around the edges and the drop clothes off the floor. But man, I'm so diappointed in that blue tape! I should have just cut the base and walls by hand! the thing about blue tape is that unless you do a PERFECT job taping the edges, your painting will "spill" or the lines won't be straight. I found so much paint on the WHITE wood base that now I will have to go buy white paint to go over my mistakes; and the corner where the two wall colors meet is imperfect, so I'll have to go over that too. I'm so hating that blue tape, but i'm really glad that at least the man at the paint store gave it to me for free, or i'd be cursing the $5.95 plus labor it would've cost me!!! For the time I wasted taping, I couldve just spent it cutting everything by hand. Ugh, oh well, better luck next time.
So that bummer aside, I started rearranging the furniture to its new locations, and gave myself the satisfaction of starting the bed assembly. Half the fun of buying (and saving) from IKEA is assembling the furniture yourself! My fingers are a little sore today, but it's all good!
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