IKEA is the Devil.

Seriously.  It is.  And yet, we keep going back.

Here goes the story.

We pick out the bookshelf we want for the office on IKEA's website.  It's white and over 6 feet tall, much like Robbie Hummel.  Anyway, we pick out a weekend to drive to Bolingbrook, IL to pick it up thinking it would be simple.  By the way, they make you walk through the entire store to get to the area where you can pick up the  boxes that hold your furniture.  So of course we find tons of other stuff to buy before we even get to the  bookshelf.  We find the bookshelf by matching the Aisle and Bin Number on the tag of the white display bookshelf.  We grab the boxes, purchase our items and head home.

By the way, our little Equinox hardly holds 6 foot tall boxes but we manage... with my knees in the dashboard.

That night I open the boxes to begin putting the shelf together.
It's not WHITE.  IT'S BROWN!!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!
Are you kidding me???
The next day, we head BACK to Bolingbrook, IL to exchange our stupid bookshelf with my stupid knees in the dashboard again.  We walk through the entire store AGAIN so of course we find more things we want to buy.  We make the exchange. This time I open the boxes to make sure the stupid thing is white.  It's in a totally different bin number.  Argh.  We make our purchase and head home again.

Now we have to put the stupid bookshelf together.  AAACCKK SWEATDROPS!
Things are going swimmingly at first.  All the pegs are in the holes, all the boards are matching up, everything is level.  Then we go to put that last screw in.  It won't line up.  EVERYthing else was lined up.  But not that last screw.  After countless attempts, many cusswords and several lost tempers, everything lines up and it is finally put together.  HOORAY!!
Here is the stupid bookshelf.

The bookshelf is very nice but look at that crazy electric blue room!! That's electric! (Boogie Woogie Woogie!)
I know, we're crazy. 
But check out the desk.

Everything in the room will probably be black or white to offset that crazy color. 

We also got a new light fixture for the room.  The old one was gold.  'Nuff said. 

(By the way, I'll do a Compare The Room Post when we get it all set up.)

Some more stuff we got at IKEA? That fun silver bowl and striped silver place mats! Look at that sweet set up! That's some Bree Van de Kamp crap right there! Haha!

Also?

A fun silver wine holder! The wine on the bottom is from Cline Winery in Napa Valley. Where my San Fran peeps at?  Oh.  You don't remember the wine tour? Yeah, me neither!

We of course remember this.

But then it starts to get a little fuzzy...

Ah, memories.

But anyway, IKEA is the devil.  But I still love the cheap crap we get there.