Nov
12
2009

Furniture Assembly Fail (Mostyl)

(Add / View Comments) (0)Thursday, November 12, 2009 - 11:59:57 pm
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So, by all accounts, we expected to have our dinning room furniture assembled as set up in time for dinner. Albeit a late one, considering what time we got home, but all the same...

The furniture however had completely different plans for us though. The table went together fine - and took no more than 10 minutes, and was as sturdy as the display stock in the store. Katie expected the chairs to be even easier. I absolutely thought that was a misguided thought, however didn't at all consider that we had such a nightmare ahead of us.

The basic assembly was fine, and more or less easy enough. The concerning part was that once that it more or less resembled a chair (minus the seat itself), the frame didn't sit even on the floor. Something that became the bain of our existence for the rest of the night. We started out trying to make adjustments to the chair we had just assembled. What didn't help matters is that the floor in here isn't the most flat surface in the world. After a few days here I began to notice that. It's fine, I can live with that, however, it's annoying as hell when you're trying to put together chairs that won't sit straight - it's hard work just trying to establish whether it's the chair, or the floor. We ended up using the table to as our control, not really knowing whether that was completely flat either, but at least it's more reliable than the floor.

Hours past as we tried to make adjustments, and then built a second chair, wondering and hoping that we'd tried with a faulty one. The results were the same. By 11:30pm, we decided to call it quits and cooked some dinner. However, I wasn't letting go of the glory of eating and our new table - fuck it, I was going to do it tonight no matter what. So we pulled in the outside chairs and did manage to eat at the table, even if the seating was to low and uncomfortable.

Being one to never defeat get the better of me, we went in for round too, finally deciding to add the seat to the chair, with the hopes that it'd pull the entire structure into place and make all the legs even. With no wholes for screwing marked (or already existing) on the seat, it was a daunting proposition, but by this stage I was up for it. Not too surprisingly, the problem persisted after this. Although, once there is weight on the chair, it surprisingly doesn't rock, even when you try to get it to.

By this stage we were close to 1am, and completely worn out and were happy to accept defeat, and put this into the "deal with tomorrow" basket. We'd made a valiant effort, and we're both too exhausted to worry about this any more today. If for nothing else, we're going to bed with a very nice dinning table in the kitchen. That's at least a step forward from this morning, even if it's less steps than we were hoping for today!
Nov
12
2009

What A Productive Day

Sorting Out More Furniture

(Add / View Comments) (0)Thursday, November 12, 2009 - 06:51:10 pm
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Well, today has been a very productive day. I feel pretty exhausted, especially given that it was like 5am before we got to sleep last night. We were back at the apartment by 2:08am (how awesome our location is in relation to Yucca will never cease to amaze us), but all the same, were up 3 hours later talking about the amazingness that was last night! Surprisingly we were up by 11. Well, I was somewhat begrudgingly dragged my ass off the sofa, but still impressive given the few hours sleep. It's funny that I'd woke up at 7:15 to hit the bathroom, was excited to be up so early and then was like "what the hell dude, you've only had 2 hours sleep".

So anyways, it was day two of operation "sort out furniture". We started out by dropping off some work to be down with the design collaterals that Katie has been working on. Which have become the absolute pain of her (and thusly my) existence! Hopefully they'll be able to help us out.

Then it was over to the furniture store in Mesa - which we've already been to a ridiculous amount of times (and not brought anything). This was hopefully our last trip out there for a while, since we'd decided on the dinning table last night. We went in and got that, and headed over to Ikea, to pick up another of the $7.99 dollar tables. We were also going to get a TV table, but sadly they're out of stock on the blonde color that we want.

From there it was over to pick up some more essential supplies, taking the scenic Guadalupe route again, and then stopped off across the road to pick up the latest New Times. It's so convenient that there is a stand right across the road from our apartment complex. Funnily enough, it's also the first new times since moving here that we haven't picked up the New Times at Ted's Hot Dogs on Broadway.

It's been quite a day. We're home now, a little after dark - with the apartment full of a lot of furniture waiting to be assembled. [smile]

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