Closets are done!

If you were paying close attention to our "what we spent in January" post, you would have likely noticed that we journey'd up to Ikea and bought our wardrobes... which means...

drum roll...

We have fully functioning closets.

You can see the closet boxes on the floor while hubs and little dude were battling it out with the cardboard boxes.

We did it over a the course of a few days, putting the double center together, then the single that makes up the three mirrored panels...

What followed shortly was the successful completion of emptying every single box we had yet to unpack after the move. We are slowly moving towards a clutter free space!!!!

We are still trying to figure out what we are going to do with the space at the very top and sides... (not sure if it will be best to by some molding pieces and make it look more built in or just leave it as is... 

But getting our closets done also has me itching to finish painting the living room by the end of the month so all I have left is the kitchen and dinning room areas.  

We have a bed...

I can do this... I can do this!

After disassembling our Murphy bed and sleeping on a mattress on the floor for several months, (or weeks? all I know is we felt like it was far too long on the floor)... in order to paint our bedroom walls a while ago... and to rip out the baseboards in our bedroom in an effort to kill the ant infestation.

I'm happy to say we actually slept on a REAL bed the other night and it was absolutely AHHH mazing!!!

Over the weekend we hit the wonderful world of Ikea with little dude in tow and purchased a new dinning room table for our kitchen (solid wood), a bed for our room, and the final wardrobe components for our master bedroom closet (full mirrored wardrobe and a half mirrored wardrobe) that we would need to assemble our expanded built in closet system.

We bought all three on a single day and opted for the glorious same day $59 delivery because, hey, if your paying $59 to have it delivered, might as well make it worth the drive and pick up other items we planned to purchase to avoid paying another $59 in the near future!

It's also the best deal in town not to have to figure out how to get things to fit in a Camry that are WAY too long to fit ... (Trust me, they wouldn't fit) and not having to carry them inside from the far parking lot is another bonus.

While i'll blog about the closet separately after we build it, (And we love our new kitchen table more than we thought was imaginable) our main priority was to sleep in a real bed...

We still have our Murphy bed from our 1 bedroom condo (and loved everything about it) and intend to keep it in our storage closet if needed at a future date... but after looking around and realizing we were seldom if ever lifting our bed up in the new condo, we decided to get a real bed frame.

Cardboard battles with Dad!

It didn't take long to assemble (we finished in in the morning after breakfast before heading to church after making lunch), and Little dude got to dress up as a paper ranger with the ikea packaging materials.

Hubs made a couple of swords by crushing a box insert to make a handle, and I created a crown and armor. It was a hit and kept him occupied for a majority of our building process.

But behold, we have a new bed and it is happy and amazing! 

Paper Ranger!

Eli gets a wardrobe!

 We headed back to Ikea this month... again...

I feel like we need to start buying stock in Ikea... Its like almost every available weekend we have we are roaming through that store.

Since Eli has some clothes and baby items, we decided it was time to get the last piece of furniture we would need for his room...

A wardrobe.

South County Boy wasn't thrilled by another trip on a Saturday... but once we got everything home he set to work like a champ.

 I honestly think he reads Ikea instructions fluently now... After our living room... and bedroom cabinets... and now Eli's wardrobe I'm convinced there is nothing he can't build.

 Inside close up of some of his hand me downs :)

and the full shot. It fits under the celing fan clearance and still gives us a few inches before the crib for ventilation. We may put some shelves or cabinets in there later down the line, but for now Eli's room is done.

One thing I love about Ikea is how you can customize things. We decided to blow an extra $5 and get two baskets for the wardrobe because they will come in handy when his clothes are small for extra diapers, etc... but we can take them out later when his stuff gets longer and he needs the extra space.

Trip Total: $222.44