$1,396.71 later... (and 2 trips)... but we finally left Ikea

Best part... paying a flat $59.00 to have everything delivered AND carried up the stairs. Best money ever spent considering I couldn't help South County Boy carry anything upstairs since i'm pregnant and he probably would have divorced me if he had to do it all by himself.

So what did we buy? Essentially in a single word:

STORAGE!!!!

Since we are staying in our condo and not moving with our upcoming bundle of joy, we finally bit the bullet and purchased the materials to put in a built in organizational unit in the living room... all so we can finally empty our walk in closet to turn it into our baby nursery. 

We also bought shelves and cabinets for our bedroom to hang above the desk...

and a new rug for the living room...

and if that's not enough, we then decided to pay $527.16 in lighting materials and wires to SCB's work to put in can lights in the living room, Re-do most of the living room electrical work.... and we added some nice track lighting to my clothes wardrobe... so its pretty awesome now...

But it took a ton of work. SCB spent a week assembling everything and playing up in the attic. 

Lots of elbow grease because no power tools are allowed with Ikea furniture assembly....

Thankfully my husband is willing to read directions...

By night one, he had the frames for the bottom finished... but not attached because he will need to re-do the electrical stuff first...

He put in recessed boxes and hid all the wires in the walls...

Then he hung the top cabinets...

Then SCB went to work on some stuff in the bedroom.... because the living room was frustrating him... and he was waiting on more cables to come in to finish the electrical.. Our old ones were a little too short to reach through the wall hole....

But somewhere between finishing the bedroom, he put in can lights in the living room and finished everything!!!

We still have to paint parts of the wall to cover up the holes we filled... but my living room is SWEET.