I went back to IKEA after work. I returned $65 worth of goods, and ended up spending another $175 on wood blinds and picture frames. I hate to seem close minded, and use IKEA for the vast majority of my choices, but seriously, IKEA is hard to beat. For the decent quality, the modern look, and the selection, it's challenging to find a better store--- when you're on a tight budget. I've searched online, I've searched through catalogs, I've visited all the stores I know and like, but when renovating an entire space for only $1,000, the options, quite honestly, are limited. Does anyone have any suggestions on where I can find cheap wood blinds--- preferably made of recycled wood? (I bet that R could find half of the stuff I bought online, on sale, somewhere, since he IS the master Googler!)
After IKEA, I hopped over to the Container Store where I bought the shelves and associated brackets. I chose to go with the gray wood-stained finish. I'm debating how that's going to look overall. The built-in wall unit is like a cherry beech, and I bought the wood blinds to match. Since the shelves, blinds, and wall units are all lined up next to each other, I thought that mixing it up and bringing in black-ish shelves will prevent the feel of a monotonous design. We'll see this weekend. The woman at the register told me that if I were a member of NAPO, National Association of Professional Organizers (can you believe there is such a thing!?), I would receive 20% off in the store. Something to look into... So another $90 later (got them on clearance, wahoo!)... and that's it... I've bought everything I needed to buy, and I have about $70 left in my budget. I will probably try to spend that on lighting since there isn't any. I wish by some miracle, I could have had the closet doors in my budget. I'll still collect quotes and decide whether or not to proceed. I'm thinking that if I have custom closet doors made, the same people could look into the pocket door for the bathroom. It might be to my advantage to have that all in one proposal, so I will think about that, and address it when I'm done with the main scope.
I asked the guys at work to give me some tape and spackle on the side, since I'll be needing to patch some holes this weekend. This is too fun.
On a side note, I finally registered my company name and filed for my tax ID, so I can get my company started! Soon to come: business cards...
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