Build Diary 48 – Transforming my home office with IKEA!

IKEA – Let me consider you on a journey into my earlier …..

 

A lot more than 20 many years in the past, I moved to Australia. I was 18, experienced just completed significant college and had met my then-boyfriend/now-spouse, who was travelling in Argentina. I fell in love and moved to Sydney.

 

I’d grown up in a loving, financially protected home with an architect  father and interior style and design obsessed mom. But going to Australia intended getting financially unbiased from my mothers and fathers. We were 20 12 months olds residing in a rented unfurnished condominium in a beautiful location of Sydney. I was doing work in a café earning $8/hour and going to audio college. We ended up in love and quite delighted, but it is truthful to say we did not have considerably funds.

 

The suburb we are dwelling in, Bondi Beach front, has a tradition of inhabitants placing unneeded home furniture on the sidewalk for other individuals to take, and so that is how we very sparsely furnish our property. We have a mattress on the ground, a wood box that was used to transportation the major of a piano, is our coffee desk, as effectively as an inflatable couch (ha!), and a Tv set. It was rather basic. The seaside was 5 minutes from our home. We loved our existence together!

 

Boyfriend proposes and we are established to get married. Our families fly in for the ceremony and are not at all amazed with our apartment. So we are hauled off to invest in furniture…..

 

I have apparent memories of that very first pay a visit to to IKEA. That monumental, cavernous developing, complete of snaking paths, and loaded with pleasant home furniture and homewares. I was like a child in a candy shop. I could pretty much get every thing I needed for my condominium in just one particular shop! It really felt like a Cinderella instant!

 

A handful of hrs later on, we’re back again at home, placing together all the flat pack goodies from IKEA. Husband is ineffective at this, but my industrial designer sister additional than helps make up for it.

 

Hey presto, we view our new house surface right before us in a matter of hours! Our tremendous simple condominium is transformed into a true property. I bear in mind feeling that “now I’m essentially an grownup!”

So IKEA for me, carries a whole lot of good emotions. It represents some of my metamorphosis from child to grownup! That experience of on the lookout close to my apartment, stuffed with new home furnishings and considering “this is now my home”. 

 

When I heard that IKEA was opening in Bali, I knew I had to look into! I had previously shopped on-line for modest kitchen area goods from IKEA Jakarta a number of yrs ago when I was desperate for a potato ricer and could not uncover any in Bali. I was ill of mashing potato for my potato-obsessed daughter with a fork, and practically wept with delight when I observed they experienced it on the web.

 

The IKEA keep in Bali is a showroom where by you can see all the goods they offer. You pick what you want and they ship it to you from Jakarta. Straightforward peasy!

 

Coincidently, I experienced been pondering about my office environment at this time. We had not long ago redone our floors, and alternatively than use the random tables and chairs that I experienced been utilizing beforehand, I wished to make it a additional stunning and productive space.